Recent content by jimmydips

I was shocked he's still painting too, I think he's 80 now. I found out through a Martini bikes Facebook group, if you FB message him he'll still do a couple of one off commissions a year.

I would love to find matching cages to go with the dark blue / purple part of the tube, otherwise I think I'll do regular polished metal cages.

Thank you for these! Surprised that such a small outfit could do their own tubing. I just emailed them to see if they have any old catalogs or more information.

Paintjob was based off of Martini's 80s Somec Elites but he took some creative liberties on detailing https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/somec-30901

I bought an old Contini Rekord with a terrible respray off of eBay for cheap and had it repainted by Mario Martini in Emilia Romagna. Recently finished building it up into my dream bike but I really haven't been able to find much about the brand. All I've found so far is that it's a Spanish...