Cuadro Pinarello MAAT

The Pinarello MAAT Frameset is Pinarello's dedicated track racing platform — a UCI-approved frameset developed in direct collaboration with the technicians and athletes of the Italian National Track Cycling Team. That collaboration wasn't limited to signing off on a finished design. Pinarello involved the national team across every stage of development: the technical specifications of the frame, the geometry requirements for different event types, and the cockpit system engineered specifically for velodrome racing. The result is a single frame platform that covers the full scope of track disciplines — sprint, Madison, omnium — without asking the rider to compromise on positioning or power transfer regardless of the event.

The frame is built from 60HM1K Torayca carbon fiber, a high-modulus construction that keeps the chassis stiff and direct underfoot. Track racing places specific demands on lateral stiffness — out-of-the-saddle sprint efforts, sharp power changes in a Madison exchange, the repeated accelerations of a points race — and the MAAT addresses this through reinforced chainstays and an asymmetric tube structure transferred from Pinarello's road racing frames. Asymmetric shaping here is a functional response to the directional forces of velodrome racing, with the drive side and non-drive side built differently to optimize stiffness where pedaling forces actually act on the frame.

Aerodynamically, the MAAT takes its lineage from the Bolide HR — Pinarello's hour record machine. The fork and frame tubes use cross-section profiles that push beyond the 3:1 aspect ratio typical of road aero designs, with thin, deep sections shaped to reduce drag at the sustained speeds of velodrome racing. The head tube is the MAAT's most distinctive design detail: rather than exposing the fork head in the conventional way, Pinarello wrapped the head tube fairing around it entirely, creating a single continuous aerodynamic line from bar to wheel hub. The fork rotates freely inside that integrated housing without the movement restrictions found on many time trial designs. The carbon Onda fork — in a tapered headtube configuration — accepts both standard 700c wheels and full lenticular discs depending on event requirements, with tire clearance designed to accommodate the range of track-specific tire profiles in use today.

The geometry is built around UCI compliance and velodrome performance simultaneously. Track regulations constrain rider position relative to the bottom bracket and set limits on saddle-to-bar relationships, and the MAAT navigates those rules through an elongated top tube and shortened stem — a configuration that still achieves an aggressive, aerodynamically effective riding position. Five frame sizes accommodate both sprinters and endurance track specialists, with seat tube angles running 75–76 degrees and head tube angles at 73.5–74 degrees across the range: geometry calibrated for the banking and high-speed commitment of velodrome riding, not the varied demands of road racing. The Italian-threaded 70mm bottom bracket shell supports modern track cranksets, and the MAAT is designed to accept chainrings up to 66T to cover the full range of gear ratios used in sprint and endurance track events.

The frameset includes the carbon fork, Pinarello Integrated headset, and Pinarello carbon seatpost — drivetrain, wheels, and cockpit are sourced separately and built to the rider's specific competition requirements. That flexibility matters on a track platform where gearing, wheel selection, and positional fine-tuning are calibrated to a specific event calendar. Pinarello has been building race bikes from Treviso, Italy, since 1952. The MAAT is one of the more focused expressions of that experience — a track frameset that carries real national team development history, available here at $5,499.99 significantly below its original retail of $8,500.