SAB Team Machine: stunning ... machine!

SAB bicycle frames(sab.sm)are now available in the USA . The Italian company located in San Marino offers several types of carbon frames each one with its own personality and/or technical characteristics.

See 2009 SAB Catalog


CAPRI, ELBA, MONTECRISTO, LEVANZO
Anyone of these frames can be personalized with an integrated seat tube, an head tube of 1'1/8” and 1’1/2”and with a BB30. The four models shares the same geometry and normally they come in 5 sizes (50-52-55-58-60), but, with a small cost differential, personal measurements could be requested. The frames are built in Italy using Deda carbon tubes wrapped so to obtain stiffness and comfort at the same time.

GIANNUTRI
The Time Trial frame, it’s a carbon monocoque offered in three different sizes: 44 – 47,5 – 50cm. Two different colors: red/white/black and black/silver/white&yellow.

ALICUDI, LAMPEDUSA-TEAM MACHINE
Carbon monocoque, 2 sloping frames sharing the same geometry. The Lampedusa comes with an oversized headset (1’1/8” – 1’1/2”) and BB30 in 5 different sizes (44-48-52-55-58). The Lampedusa is offered in a simple and elegant graphic that combines white, light blue and black. But the Lampedusa frame is also used for the Team Machine graphic: an original zebra inspired look that in the 2009 version had a splash of colors to recall the Italian flag. For 2010 SAB is offering other colors with the Team Machine graphic: red, blue, gold, black, silver, green and pink.

The Lampedusa is a frame for racers: stiff, stable and nimble at the same time. Extremely precise, the TM smoothly turns at high speed regardless of the radius, without any front pushing feeling, nervousness or reaction to braking. I have personally tested my Team Machine in crits, circuit, road races, in the dry as well wet conditions, in motorpacing and in 4+ hrs rides. The Lampedusa is an incredible frame that offers the best ratio $/performance. The Team Machine graphic is extremely attractive with the 3 k carbon fiber weave reveling itself in strategically chosen parts of the frame. The color details and the painting reveal a passion for quality, typical of the best Italian tradition. The SAB Team Machine is like a stunning woman receiving attention and compliments every time is strolling down the road.

Mario Vicini aka Gaibera

Often I am asked the question: who is behind the SAB brand? Answer: Mario Vicini, the owner of a company born in 1990 in San Marino, Italy for the creation and production of road racing bicycles aimed at the mass production as well as at customized products. Over two decades the company has developed the distribution of its products through a sales network of appointed agents and retailers in Italy and in the world.
Mario Vicini indeed has been in the industry for much longer than 20 years since he has continued the business of bicycle manufacturer started by his father, Mario Vicini Senior, aka Gaibera, at the end of long career as professional road racer at international level in the years between 1930 - 1950




Gaibera has raced with some of the best racers of all the time, from Gino Bartali to Fausto Coppi, during some of the most epic years of the Italian cycling history. He was a strong climber and a fearless descender. The second place at the 1937 Tour de France is probably the best result of his career. Mario Vicini was without team, since for a series of circumstances he had signed up as private racer financing his trip to France by selling two gold medals won before becoming pro. In the same race he even worn, for a day, the prestigious yellow jersey.





Mario Vicini Sr has also won the Italian Championship in 1938, worn the Pink jersey in one of the several edition of Giro di Italia that he raced and won several other prestigious competitions as Giro del Lazio. He was still in his 20s, in prime shape, when the Second World War started and, indeed, it jeopardized the rest of his career. In 1946 he opened his first bicycle store that he would transform in a successful business over the years. He raced until 1952 when almost 40 but then he must have kept riding because in 1973, at 60, he won the Master World Title.
Mario Vicini aka Gaibera kept working with his kids on the family bicycle business until 1995, when he passed away in Cesena, his hometown.

Many thanks to Mario Vicini Jr for kindly allowing the publication of his father's pictures.
Biographical information:
Wikepedia, Comune di Cesena