Basso’s newest SV is an aero street bike developed for rider, not for professional racers. What that basically means is that whereas it’s light-weight, aerodynamic, fast dealing with, and stiff the place it must be… it’s really designed for consolation, actual human suits, and with large enough all-road tire clearance so that you gained’t be restricted solely to buttery easy asphalt.
This could possibly be the top made-in-Italy aero all-road bike for actual cyclists…
2025 Basso SV, a premium everyman’s aero all-road bike
Basso appended the SV abbreviation onto the tip of their quickest Diamante street race bike names for a number of years – brief for Sempre Veloce or ‘at all times quick’. However now this new bike simplifies their aero street bike naming, sticking simply with that SV core precept.
Basso describes their new top-tier carbon SV as a street bike providing “racing-level efficiency, for all riders.” As an alternative of making a race bike for the professional peloton after which making an attempt to promote it to newbie cyclists, Basso says they’ll give attention to the wants of the purchasers who purchase and experience their bikes. They declare that frees them as much as prioritize a extra sensible ‘stability of racing efficiency and on a regular basis usability’.
So Basso street riders get broad biomechanically dialed-in match choices, real rider consolation, actual all street floor practicality, plus a light-weight, responsive & aerodynamically-optimized bike.
It’s a carbon street bike made fully in Italy although, in order that ‘all riders’ label actually pertains solely to all riders with a wholesome new bike finances.
What’s new?
The large shift for the brand new SV vs. Basso’s earlier Diamante & Diamante SV is a transfer away from pigeonholing a motorbike as both ‘race’ or ‘all-road’.
That basically works due to the brand new Basso SV’s greater 35mm tire clearance, offering versatility over all exhausting floor roads, plus some flexibility to take your street rides additional afield.
It nonetheless delivers on aerodynamics although, now optimized for a variety of 28-35mm street tires. In actual fact, although the SV has usually increased body Stack (however decrease standover heights) for improved rider match with out spacer stacks, it’s extra aero. That primarily boils right down to the 16% diminished frontal space of the brand new Basso SV in comparison with the earlier Diamante SV era. Basso takes it one step additional, with a brand new perspective on their ahead leaning fork crown, transitioning airflow easily off the entrance wheel into the sharp-edged higher part of downtube.
On the identical time, the brand new SV can also be stiffer the place you need it. Backside bracket stiffness is up 7.5% over the Diamante SV, headtube stiffness is up 22.5%, and rear triangle stiffness stays unchanged. And on the identical time, extra seatpost extension and a 2nd-gen vibration-damping 3B Clamp seatpost clamping design promise improved compliance on the rider’s saddle
Tech particulars
- mid-mod Torayca T1100 & T1000 carbon fiber layup
- 780g claimed body weight (53cm unpainted with out {hardware})
- 370g claimed fork weight (uncut)
- Kamm tail truncated aero tube shapes all through
- Microtech strong lubrication headset bearing for additional lengthy life
- built-in totally inner cable routing by the headset
- 2 built-in cockpit choices – brake hood widths from 37cm (300g Fuga) or 38-44cm (330g Levita)
- 180g proprietary concave-back small diameter carbon seatpost – 25.3mm deep x 27.5mm huge
- up to date vibration damping built-in 3B seatpost clamp
- 2 seatpost offset choices – 0mm or 15mm setback
- max 35mm tire clearance (on 25mm inner rims)
- PressFit 86.5 backside bracket
- 12mm thru-axles & flat mount disc brakes
- lengthy 5-year carbon guarantee
- 7 body sizes (45-61cm)
- 4 shade choices: gloss Pure Black (above) exposing the carbon materials textures; White Burano pairing matte white, orange logos & shiny uncovered carbon; shifting iridescent Viola Galaxy from purple to orange as your view modifications; and particular version Rosso Vivo mixing shiny chrome with uncovered carbon & crimson accents.
2025 Basso SV – Pricing, choices & availability
This new aero all-road Basso SV is offered in semi-customizable mix-and-match builds with 4 totally different groupsets, 4 wheelsets & 4 paint schemes. Or for $5795 / 4999€ you possibly can even begin with the made-in-Italy frameset by itself – body, fork, headset, built-in Fuga handlebar cockpit & seatpost – after which curate your individual fully-custom construct.
Full bikes begin at $8995 / 7949€ with a Shimano Ultegra Di2 group, carbon DT Swiss ERC 1600 endurance all-road wheels. Ultegra builds are the one to maintain it underneath 10K. An improve to Dura-Ace knocks the brand new SV over 5 figures, bringing the whole to $11,695 / 10,499€, nonetheless with the ‘extra reasonably priced’ carbon endurance wheels.
A Basso SV constructed up with SRAM Pink AXS 2×12 and undulating Fulcrum Sharq (or DT ARC1100) wheels sells for $13,195 / 11,999€. This shiny chrome, crimson & carbon Rosso Vivo paint job may also set you again an additional $560 / 450€ versus the opposite three normal finishes.
Lastly, topping out probably the most dear builds is that this Basso SV with becoming Italian Campagnolo Tremendous Report S Wi-fi gruppo and stealthy darkish Campy Bora WTO 45 wheels for $13,295 / 11,999€.
Order your new Italian street bike now, by your native Basso seller bike store.