According to Statistics Explained on the European Commission’s website (your guide to European statistics, explained!), the average labour cost in Italy is €30.50 per hour. According to Passoni’s product manager, Matteo Visentini, ‘The whole process of building a frame like this one is 50 hours, with 35 hours spent smoothing the welds and polishing the tubes.’
Run those numbers, add in R&D, materials and low production volume – Passoni only makes around 400 frames annually – and you start to see why the Titanio Disco costs over 14 grand. But if you’ve come shopping for one you haven’t come to dissect price, you’ve
