#12: Mark DiNucci, Part I

The Paceline Cycling Podcast · Aug 3, 2018 · 38m

If you wanted to find the American who made the most profound impact on the ride of steel road bikes in the last 30 years, it would be hard to find a person more influential than Mark DiNucci. As an engineer for Specialized Bicycle Components, he was instrumental in creating the steel Allez which went on to be one of the most coveted racing bikes in the 1980s and '90s. He not only designed the bike itself, he was responsible for the tubing spec'd for that bike and the lugs. As a builder in the 1980s, even before he joined Specialized, he had been sourcing tubing and lugs from Japan while most…