I would like to become a framebuilder

Hello everybody, my name is Giovanni since 2011 I have started to work in my workshop in Lacremò making handmade custom steel frames.

Lacremò is the dialect noun for a neighborhood of Finale Ligure , where I live. So Lacremò is a toponym.
I love to think of it in this way, as a point on a map: 44°.10'50.2"N 8°21'5.6"E

I started with a minimum manual knowledge due to my father massive experience as a worker in shipyard, mixed with my experience as a designer and the big will to learn.

The passion for bikes and cyclism is a great motivation.
I cannot forget that it has been an important part in the past of my country, Italy, both for what concerns cycling and the cyclistic productions.

Italy is the place where a bricklayer won the ”Giro D’Italia” and another cyclist become a great designer and succesfull businessman and many more.
This is a story made of people who had the chance to run unknown roads.
The heroic aspect and the social emancipation that the bikes brought, it’s still bringing is a vector of noble values.

In my opinion unfortunately modernism and hypertechnicism have distort this aspect, and that’s why I choose a different road, a more romantic and emotive road without ending in the melancholy of vintage. The spirit of vintage cycling fascinates me and

I would like to link to the future.
That’s the theme of my research.

I really like to have a wide open view, to think the bike as a way transport, trying to value the most important aspects of the materials and their use. The most important part of a bike is the frame, the frame must answer a need. We should consider it as an extention of our body, at the same time as a driver and fuel.

The frame is a complex product. I am in the planning and realization of frames, filled brazed and conjuctions. I do not only produce, I study with an eye on past, the tradition , innovation , melting together other arts to create a unique result to enjoy the personal experience of freedom.

The steel frame is composed by eight welded tubes, from this simply idea, that link together all the bikes from more than a century. Born the world of planning, measure and geometry… that brings us to the continue research of that should not be consider only as bike, but as a means of moving, running and travelling.

Sections, tubes, angles, trail, chainstays length, lowering the bottom bracket, are only few aspects that allows us to customize a frame, we add the measure and the new construction could start.

The only certain thing is that the bike is sweat and tears, it requires always a strong effort but it gives you more: new perspectives, wellness and freedom.

“Passion is the motivation of a unique object.”