Is that a handle The Giro has come to an end, so tonight's Bike at Bedtime from the archives celebrates a quirky Italian road bike complete with a gaping hole in the top tube! cycling
have even started appearing on the World Tour in the last year or so, we're bringing you some more 'retro', Italian gaping goodness for this edition of Bike at Bedtime to coincide with the Giro d'Italia coming to an end for another year. The Casati Marte HT was a bike I used to make a point of seeking out at bike shows, which is where these photos were taken several years ago. After all, who doesn’t like a bike with a hole in the top tube? ....
Truth be told, at one point during the mid-noughties almost every bike on the Casati stand had an extra hole in - well, every carbon bike anyway. I couldn’t truthfully tell you if they were all Martes, and my feeling is they weren’t. Okay, okay you want to know what the hole is for... well picture a man shrugging, because even though it looks like a handle of sorts no official reason was ever given. I’m sure if the Casatis had a hot marketeer on the team they would have come up with something semi-plausible involving the old vertical compliance schtick. I never saw any bold claims, but mind you I don’t speak Italian.
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