Rauler Arabesque, 2008, Italy
History & Specifications
The brother Raul and Reglus Gozzi started in the early 1970s to work as framebuilder and pantographer. They started a collaboration with Ernesto Colnago and 75% of their annual frame production were the legendary Colnago Super with all the pantographed Campagnolo Nuovo Record and Super Record components. The skills of pantographing parts lead to the Arabesque project. Refining the lug set with extensive pantographing to reshape the lugs including cutting out windows and scripture. When Rauler presented their new frame at the annual Milan bicycle show, Colnago felt in love with their achievement and ordered lug sets for his 30th anniversary Colnago for 1984. So the first sets of the fameous Colnago Arabesque frames were built by the Gozzi brothers. In the same year the collaboration with Colnago seized and a small number of the Rauler Arabesque frames were produced during the following decades.
The bike is set up with a complete Shimano Dura-Ace 7900 groupset with a 10 speed compact crankset and a brandnew Reynolds wheelset and Shimano Ultegra 10s cassette.
The racing bicycle is very well cared and in excellent visual and mechanic condition.
Frame size seat tube 57 cm center–top, top tube length 56 cm center–center, weight 9 kg