Tommaso Bikes is a
bicycle manufacturing company, headquartered in
Denver, Colorado
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, United States. The bikes are designed in Italy, engineered in Colorado, and shipped direct to the consumer.
History
Tommaso Bicycles was founded in 1985 as a
road bike brand.
The direct bicycle importer, TEN SPEED DRIVE of California, commissioned the original Tommaso frames to be built in Italy and then shipped over to the USA unpainted. They used the highest quality lugged Columbus cro-moly steel tubing frames. These raw frames were painted in a two toned paint design and delivered to the bikes shops ready to build. Original color choice was either blue and white fade or pink and white fade.
Since then the brand has expanded to include
track bikes,
fixed gear bikes,
triathlon
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bikes and
cyclocross bikes. Tommaso bicycles had a line of
steel road bicycles that expanded to
titanium
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and currently consists of
aluminum
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It ha ...
and
carbon
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road bikes. In 2013 the core of the road line is the six aluminum road bike offerings paired up with six carbon road bikes. Tommaso offers three woman specific models. The Tommaso line-up also includes an aluminum cyclocross bike and two triathlon bikes (one aluminum and one
monocoque
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First used for boats, ...
carbon).
In 2013 the Tommaso brand was sold to an investment group.
Products
Tommaso do not use
model year
The model year (sometimes abbreviated "MY") is a method of describing the version of a product which has been produced over multiple years. The model year may or may not be the same as the calendar year in which the product was manufactured.
...
s, allowing for modifications and upgrades to existing bike models without having to wait an entire year.
References
External links
Tommaso BikesGiantnerd.com
{{American bicycle manufacturers
Cycle manufacturers of the United States