Bootleg is a project born in Cinelli laboratories in 2000 to explore the idea of total cycling. Bootleg is an experiment in continuous evolution: it learns from mistakes, it adapts to new conditions, it’s a research through the streets of the planet, into the history, among people with passion for bicycles, for those who think, build and live bikes.

Bootleg is a pirate-bike, like some ships, some records, some flags: projected by Cinelli for the urban ground. Bootleg is a bike for citizens of the planet, designed to sail the pavé, cross rails, ignore the slopes of sidewalks, as well as pass the tangent going over the border of urban traffic and throw to the discovery of the entire globe.

Bootleg is a bike, and the bike is a medium for changing life, it’s an energy multiplier, for reaching actively the consciousness of one’s own space and time dimension. Bootleg is cushion for not feeling rails, it’s dry for sliding in traffic , fixed for hurries box deliveries, it bends to enter into the underground, it doubles for lovers, it rests beside the bed at night and the desk at morning.

Bootleg belongs to cyclists. Bootleg is black because it couldn’t be of any other color. Nothing costs more than the absence: of color, noise, pain…The Black absorbs dirt and color with the same indifference. It remains intact even under ethic and aesthetic threats. It’s not a suitable bike for those who feels to be victim of the city or traffic, not for those who expect solution to all problems from the society.

“I start to change myself, here and now, getting on that bike. So I feel a transgressor and a I hope one day to be outside rule becomes the rule: then we will have solved a lot of things”. BOOTLEG is the mean.