BREAKING AWAY ON A ROSSIN?

Everyone's favourite cycling movie 'Breaking Away' (1979) features Dennis Christopher playing wannabe pro cyclist Dave Stoller. 
In the famous scene where Stoller drafts behind a Cinzano lorry he's clearly on a Masi with a frame very similar the one shown below, but in the scene where he's knocked off his bike by the Italian cycling team he's apparently riding a Rossin. If anyone has a copy of the movie could you take a look for me? [elprez (at) hotmail.co.uk]

ROSSIN STRADA PROFESSIONAL

A late eighties/early nineties Columbus SLX steel frame.

Not the lightest frame ever, but some of the paint jobs were wild!

ROSSIN RACING TEAM, GENESIS, TRILLY AND RACER

 All these bikes are from the late eighties, early nineties.   
 All have internal cable routing and downtube shifter mounts.

 Rossin Genesis
  Dedacciai Zero tubing









 Rossin Trilly
 Columbus tubing

Rossin Racing Team
Columbus tubing

Rossin unbranded road frame

Neuron tubing

Rossin Racer

Columbus GARA tubing

Rossin 'unbranded' road frame

LATER ROSSINS - BOXER, PERFORMANCE, TROFEO, MAESTRO

Rossin Performance EL

Rossin Performance

Rossin Boxer as used by Team Mobilvetta 2001

Frame and Fork: Dedaccai SC61.10A K.E.T. oversize 6000 aluminum tubing; Mizuno carbon fiber fork; integrated headset
Group: Shimano Dura-Ace nine speed; Look Pedals
Wheels and Tires: Ritchey Rims; Michelin Axial Pro clinchers
Saddle: Selle Italia Prolink; Ritchey seatpost
Bars and Stem: Ritchey
Other: Mobilvetta - Trentini Formaggi team boss Stefano Giuliani was once European masters MTB champion; thus his predilection for Ritchey components? Many pro teams use the Ritchey seatpost because of its unusual 2mm extra setback. 

Boxer Frame

Rossin Maestro 1996 - CroMo tubing

Performance with Shimano 105

Rossin Trofeo Crono

ROSSIN TRACK BIKES AND DISC WHEELS

Rossin Pursuit

 



[Above] New fangled 'Fiber Carbon'. It'll never catch on.

Rossin Pursuit

Performance EL

1988 Trofeo Olympic Pursuit

"Disc Wheels? Our idea" - Rossin Website
In 1983, besides successfully equipping Splendor and Jacki Aernaudt, professional Benelux squads in which Eric Vanderaerden played a lead role, Garbelli also invented the disc wheels. “I tested them for the first time on Rossin bikes. They had a honeycomb structure. In summer 1983, the International Cycling Union wanted to reject them. Later on they were liberalised. In fact, in January, 1984, after the “rossinian” tests of 1983, Moser used them to twice set the hour record in Mexico. Disc wheels first appeared thanks to Rossin”. The use of disc wheels at high speed, with fly-wheel effect and no braking effect produced by the air, provides other advantages for time-trial athletes. In the summer of 1983 Rossin bikes were used both by the Russian and US national track teams. “Rossin brings together Russians and Americans” became a slogan used beyond the boundaries of cycling.

Rossin Pursuit with disc wheels

Finnish National Track Team