ALAN is an Italian bicycle manufacturer.
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Type | Private |
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Industry | Bicycle industry |
Founded | 1972; 50 years ago (1972) in Saccolongo, Italy |
Founder | Lodovico Falconi |
Headquarters | , Italy |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Bicycles and Bicycle frames |
Website | alanbike |
ALAN was founded in 1972 by Falconi Lodovico, an engineer who had worked for bicycle manufacturer Torpado.[1] The name ALAN comes from the first two letters of the Lodovico's children, Alberto and Annamaria.[2] It was the first company to introduce an all aluminium bicycle frame made from aerospace grade aluminum.[3] In 1976, ALAN was again first in developing and manufacturing a production carbon frame[4] made by bonding Torayca carbon fibre composite tubing to cast aluminium lugs, a process still widely used today by many manufacturers.
Over the years the firm's frames were ridden to 20 cyclo-cross world championships titles, 5 track world championships titles, numerous one-day classics wins, as well as Grand Tour stage wins.[5]
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