It's a shame really as other than this little infidelity the Scalare is an excellent bike to ride with plenty of comfort and speed on offer. In fact the reason this stands out at all is that in every other respect the Scalare's road manners are so poised that it's a surprise when that poise momentarily slips. The sorts of riders who are going to take it to that point are also not going to have a problem dealing with it. The Scalare might have surprised me by being slightly with its momentar hesitation in doing what I wanted it to do, but it did do it without any histrionics. So it's not something I'd consider a safety issue. It would though be unfair to over-state this issue - we are talking right at the limit - 45mph and up in to a bend - the sort of place only very confident riders are going to go, on roads they know. Just to make sure I wasn't imagining it I went in search of every technical descent I could find and the same thing happened. The issue here is that a standard dual pivot calliper is more powerful than the Miche so with the direct mount version giving, albeit minimal power increase on top of that you end up with stronger braking at the rear than you do at the front, not ideal in this situation. Tifosi have specced a direct mount Shimano 105 calliper on the underneath of the chainstays. At first I thought geometry but this thing is set up like a race bike, as previously mentioned it very similar to the Bianchi and that had no such issues. The Scalare got flustered, the feedback from the front wheel became vague and the usual tweaks of body position did little to tame it. It all starts off with a long gentle left hander to pick up speed before it tightens into a chicane, tight left first then steeply into a right with both bends having a lot of camber so you really need to kick your bodyweight over to get the bike to bank and pick up the second apex. I have a couple of routes that every bike gets tested on, one of which has a short twisty decent that I must have ridden down hundreds and hundreds of times, I know every line, pothole, drain cover and gravel mound. The one place that the Tifosi can let itself down though is when things get technical at high speed.
Again, those shallow bars allow you to get low and descend in the drops.
Straight descents and those with gently swooping bends can be taken with confidence with plenty of feedback travelling from road to rider. The handling remains on the neutral side of lively as the speed increases. Thanks to the 145mm long head tube on our medium sized frame you can get into a decent aero tuck without requiring a huge range of flexibility helped by the rather shallow drop of the Cinelli bars. On the flatlands this allows you to find a rhythm and ride at pace for a good few hours without having to stretch or shift your riding position continuously.
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