Hello Beautiful People!
Guess what? Summer is now definitely gone!
Many of you might say "not for us!" since we still keep recording very high temperature in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth and in plenty more places in AUS and why not, someone says in north NZ as well. On one side, great hot weather means more opportunity to ride a bike, on the other hand too hot weather can seriously be annoying particularly with temperature above 37 degrees! Such problem seems not affecting south east QLD and northern NSW where the rain has done some heavy damage and has prevented many occasional and recreational riders to get on a bike. Nonetheless, as soon as a little bit of sunshine comes out some of us who love the healthy and happy lifestyle are ready to make the most of it!
Mario & Roberto went out for a pleasurable and relax ride this last SAT around South Bank in Brisbane, it seems they had lots of fun! Where did ride this last week end?
It seems now the bad weather is behind us, whilst strong winds keep us on the watch. Yesterday was not a bad day, today is nice so... finger crossed for more great weather!
Lately we've received some very inquisitive e-mails with people more or less asking the following: "why are your bikes so better than the others? Is it only because they are more expensive? We can now get bikes online from $235 AU!". In all honesty we did not receive many of these e-mails, probably 6 in the last 4 months out of the 150+ enquiries via e-mail we receive everyday, week end included. The fact is that we did not know how to answer to this question. Better said, we did not know how to answer to this question without appearing biased. After all, we are still managing Italian Bicycles and we do LOVE our Lombardo Italian bikes, thus an impartial answer had to be sought. We looked for non biased answers and we found some here http://ow.ly/iIVS5 - As you can see yourself, we left our fans, our supporters, our aficionados and our clients totally FREE to express what they felt they wanted to say plus, we offered a small reward for doing it, thus trying to involve as many people as we could.
Italian Bicycles, as the name wishes to remind to all of us, is an online business specialized in Lombardo Bikes: bicycles hand-made in Italy since 1952
In reality, without posing too much effort looking around, the best answer we could find ourselves is the one below. Warning! The grammar might not be perfect, but the actual meaning and the truth behind it is indeed quite real!
Anonymous biking fellow riding around the UK, France, Italy and Austria
So, it plausible that we can all provide the very same answer for the above question posed by people out there who yet do not own a Lombardo: "My friend, that is why!".
Every Lombardo bikes comes to you with these 2 stickers certifying the manufacturer origin and its location, including the Eropean Union control certification and approval.
Every Lombardo bikes comes to you with these 2 stickers certifying the manufacturer origin and its location, including the Eropean Union control certification and approval.
Nowadays the vast majority of bicycles are massively produced in China and Taiwan. Most brands on the market do take up of these productions engraving their brand. The kind of Know-how, Tradition, Passion and Love used to build these bikes in those regions is quite different than those used to build Lombardo Italian Bicycles, where the very same family started manufacturing bicycles since 1952 and where now a selected squad of craftsmen works non-stop to produce a state of the art design.
Try before you buy... and feel the difference.
Keep you head up while on the bike and enjoy your ride.
See you all soon.
Mario and Roberto at ride@italianbicycles.com.au and
http://italianbicycles.com.au
