Principia RSL Racebike
Principia made superior frames back in 2000's come to try it and you will see why 👨🔧
Campagnolo Vento wheels and 3x10 Chorus/Veloce group set 👩🚒
Size: XL 61cm ⬆️
Principia made superior frames back in 2000's come to try it and you will see why 👨🔧
Campagnolo Vento wheels and 3x10 Chorus/Veloce group set 👩🚒
Size: XL 61cm ⬆️
Principia made superior frames back in 2000's come to try it and you will see why 👨🔧
Campagnolo Vento wheels and 3x10 Chorus/Veloce group set 👩🚒
Size: XL 61cm ⬆️
IN 1990, THREE YOUNG GUYS FROM AALBORG STARTED WELDING BICYCLE FRAMES.
They were determined to become the best.
Had they now been able to afford to buy expensive bike frames, they could have done so. But then, the adventure of Principia had not seen the light of day.
"We could not afford the majestic bike frames that came from the United States then. Then we had to start creating them ourselves,” says Gert Spender Andersen, one of three young guys with the same problem: Where do you find a quality triathlon frame? The answer lay with himself. A bluish glow began to glitter out through the basement window in Aalborg when the triathletes welded aluminium pipes in search of a rigid and light bike frame.
STW
The goal was to create the best bike frames in the world right from the start. Quite simple. The tri-musketeers from Aalborg also agreed on a criterion for quality: STW - stiffness to weight. The world's best frame must be the one that has the best ratio of stiffness to weight. A rigid and light bike frame provides the most efficient performance. Easily understandable today. But in 1990, only a few thought that way. The innovative thoughts, unlike bike frames, needed a name. With the intention of Principia to be the only bike in the world named after a book, Principia Bikes sends a greeting back to Isaac Newton, who in 1687 enhanced modern physics with his groundbreaking masterpiece, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
7020
The aluminium alloy from which the innovative Principia bike frames were welded proved excellent at withstanding the dynamic influences during cycling. The bike frames made of 7020 alloy were the key to some successful years for Principia. Gert Spender Andersen, a qualified machinist, brought the best of his old welding colleagues over to Principia. While in 1992, there were two on the payroll, there were ten the following year.
One of the new employees was Anders Bystrup, who later became Danish champion in cycling cross. Anders was right away determined to create mountain bike frames. He did so, and Principia was represented at the 1998 Mountain Bike World Cup.