It was a cold, wine-fueled February night in Montreal. I had decided to celebrate my 30th birthday in Barcelona. I was 29 then and it was -29°C outside. I sat there daydreaming about bikes and sunshine…
MY 30th Birthday in Barcelona did not happen, but I’d find myself in that bustling creative hub of a city many times in the past few years. I knew there was something special there.
My very last visit was the best one yet.
It would have been around the same time in the winter of 2012 when César Rojo decided to build himself a bicycle company from the ground up. His rules, his designs and built in his city. No stranger to racing, testing, designing bikes and components at this point in his life, the Barcelona local used his engineering knowledge he sharpened at Cero Designs to launch UNNO bikes.
Cesar rides bikes fast. Faster than you and me. Fast enough to be teamed up with Greg Minnaar (RSA), Missy Giove (USA), Mick Hannah (AUS), Sean McCarroll (AUS), Matti Lehikoinen (FIN), and Andrew Neethling (RSA), at Global Racing in the early year 2000s.
The team, well, it was short lived, but it was the right catalyst for César to go back to school for engineering and design.
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