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Oftentimes the workers who run the machines are former bicycle racers themselves. The manufacturing equipment used to make shoes - presses and stamping equipment, super-specialized, industrial-sized sewing machines, and finishing grinders and mills - are typically also made in Italy. As Gaerne’s Marta Gazzola says: “Just like a good pasta, all the ingredients have to be good!” Adjacent to the shoe factory are the workers who molds lasts, lay up carbon-fiber soles, stamp out buckles, inject plastic, etc. What has kept most high-end Italian shoe production from moving abroad is the sophisticated ecosystem of Italian-based suppliers who provide every component that goes into modern cycling shoes. It was fitting that one of the trip’s main focus was on three mid-sized manufacturers of cycling shoes: Gaerne, DMT, and Vittoria.

The purpose of the trip was to showcase just how healthy the country’s cycling manufacturing industry still is - and how much of the work is still designed, prototyped, and created under the same roof. VeloNews recently traveled to Italy to tour the factories of some of the country’s smaller cycling brands. The entire operation is, and has always been, under his gaze. About 40 workers use presses, stitching machines, molders, and their own hands to produce approximately 200,000 high-end motorcycle and cycling shoes each year.įrom the front door of his home, Gazzola hears the tap, tap, tap of his cobblers as they flatten seams on the shoes with specialized shoemaking hammers prior to the final stitching. The door opens into a soaring, 43,000-square foot ultra-modern production facility that produces high-end cycling shoes for Gazzola’s brand, Gaerne. If you walk out of his back door and cross a small lawn, you come to a gleaming large, white sliding metal door.

Get access to everything we publish when youĮarlier this summer VeloNews traveled to Italy with the Italian Trade Commission, a government-funded trade promotion entity that promotes the country’s cycling companies.Įrnesto Gazzola’s house outside Maser in the Veneto region of northern Italy sits on the grounds of the shoe factory he founded in 1962.

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