Moser Cicli

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As did many Italian bicycle racers, Francesco Moser began building racing bicycles after his retirement, in a small workshop in Trento, Italy. With a production of 2-3,000 frames annually, Moser's frames are relatively unique among Italian racing bicycles for being fillet brazed using silver solder rather than using lugs with brass brazing, the silver solder never getting hot enough to weaken the tubing and thus not needing the reinforcement of the lugs and saving the weight. After brazing each frame is hand filed and aligned on a digital alignment table. The smooth lines resulting from the lack of lugs are emphasized with a unicrown fork and a unique integrated seatpost, attached by an expander bolt in a manner similar to the handlebar stem.