Cinelli MASH Parallax ‘Ten Year’

This is one of the few bikes visible on this website that I actually own. A Cinelli Mash Parallax ‘Ten Year’ edition.

Created in 2015 to celebrate 10 years of partnership between Cinelli & Mash, it is imited to 100 ex (all sizes included). This one is number 88/100.

I bought it as a frame set in 2017, when I was unaware of its existence before. I was looking to buy a regular Parallax, or a ‘charcoal’ at best, when Nicolas U came to me with this one that he was selling.

It has been ‘upgraded’ to suit my tastes over the years, one part at time, reaching its final form in 2025 almost ten years after buying it.

Bike check - 2026 - final build.

× Frame:

2015 Cinelli MASH Parallax - ‘Ten year’ anniversary edition - number 88 of 100.
Columbus Airplane aluminium frame - carbon fork with aluminium steerer.

× Wheels:
ZIPP 404 Firecrest - Carbon clincher rims - 16/20 spokes.
Custom-made Mack Superlight low flange pink anodized hubs.
Black Sapim CX-Ray bladed spokes.
28mm tyres.

× Drivetrain:
Rotor 3D track 165mm crankset with Rotor bottom bracket.
Shimano PD-M540 SPD pedals.
Sugino Zen 51t silver chainring.
Izumi Super Toughness chain.

× Other:
Thomson Masterpiece seat post, Thomson seat clamp, Thomson X2 -17° stem, Thomson bar tape, Thomson Trail C carbon risers or Thomson carbon road handlebars.
San Marco x MASH limited edition Concor saddle.
Columbus headset with Mash top cap and Mash camera headset spacers.
‘Oil slick’ bolts pretty much everywhere.

× Weight: 7.2kg.

The paintjob:

“All designs of MASH Ten Year Anniversary products are based on ‘X’, the Roman numeral for Ten: ‘X’ is comprised of the intersection of two lines or, can be seen as two angles in tangency. This rationale serves as the basis of the vanishing point(s) in linear perspective —the means for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface.

The design elements and visual language of all #MASHtenyear products–from premiere flyer to the frameset you see here–are derived from plotting equidistant points along the periphery of the MASH logotype, and then tracing these points back to a vanishing point.

Scaling the ‘wireframe’ derived from this exercise, and varying the distance of the vanishing point and placement of the logotype above and below the horizon line yields myriad permutations of this visual language.”

- Garrett Chow.

This bike went up (and down) the Mont Ventoux three times - fixed gear brakeless. Not the kind of bike you see up there every day︎

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2023 update: oh snap!

In early 2023, as I was “deep cleaning” it by removing all its components, I’ve noticed a crack just above the bottom bracket shell, almost all around the seat tube. It has been rewelded later in the year by Baptiste Pelletan, a local frame builder, and it is now back to life and doing well so far.