New 1987 replica steel frame from Battaglin

New frame is a replica of Stephen Roche’s 1987 World Championship winning bike

(Image credit: Mirco Vettore)

Officina Battaglin has been celebrating this year. It’s thirty years since Stephen Roche’s magic year, when he won cyclng’s triple crown on a Battaglin bike.

That year, Roche won the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and the World Championships in Austria. He was only the second rider to do so after Eddy Merckx and no-one has repeated the feat since.

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