San Marco Aspide Racing Team Edition Saddle

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The Aspide from San Marco, simple design, light as a feather and very comfortable.
These saddles are used by professional racing team Katusha.

Specification:

• Dimensions: 280mm x 130mm
• Weight: 164g
• Cover: Microfeel white
• Graphics: Screen print
• Rails: Xsilite

Like Team Katusha that this year will use the Zoncolan, the Aspide and the Regale in the RACING TEAM SPECIAL EDITION version. The cover has been personalized with the blue and red tonalities that identify the Russian line-up.

To the team, that last year at the debut season achieved 26 victories, belong winning and famous riders, like Joaquim Rodriguez, Robbie McEwen, the Russian champion Sergey Ivanov, Danilo Napolitano and the champion of Italy Filippo Pozzato

Xsilite Rails - Xsilite is a new composition of materilas that San Marco have introduced for the production of its rails. Lighter and stronger than titanium, Xsilite was created as material for research on the racing team saddles of professionals.

This new material has a high percentage of silicone, together with particles of titanium and carbon and results in a material which is tough, strong like titanium but at the same time 1 tenth lighter.

About the Selle San Marco brand

Selle San Marco are proud of their decades of history. Their founder, Comm. Luigi Girardi, with insight and sagacity created in Rossano Veneto an entrepreneurial model to admire and follow. Today the founder's grandchildren - Luigi and his brothers Luca, Giovanni and Antonella - have inherited his dynamism along with the management of Sella San Marco. They run Selle San Marco with the help of their enthusiastic parents Antonio and Giuseppina, who are occupied daily in the firm. "We are approaching 70 years in business, seventy years of vast and constantly increasing production, all of it in Italy," says Luigi Girardi. "We developed and manufactured famous saddles like the Regal, Rolls and Concor, Era models, ridden by the greatest champions of cycling. "Every year we've added new patents and solutions to our collection, saddles designed to meet every need of every cyclist."