Cinelli Pressure
Open mould. It used to be a dirty phrase because it meant carbon product X came out of a mould that anyone could access, and hence it tended to be lower quality. Closed mould, by contrast, meant exclusive. Exclusive meant money, and money meant high levels of quality control and R&D. Yet as technology has trickled down, open mould components are now often very good in quality terms and near identical in design. It’s hard to defend intellectual property in the Far East, so they say.
The aero-fied Pressure is unashamedly open mould, albeit Cinelli vice-president Fabrizio Aghito says it ‘is a shared project’ with the factory that makes
