A Pinarello Dogma F12 highway bike, gifted to Pope Francis by Egan Bernal, has offered at public sale for €14,000 (£11,995/$15,163).
The lot was estimated by consultants to succeed in within the area of €25,000 (£21,417/$27,078) to €30,000 (£25,701/$32,494), however ended up going below the gavel at close to retail worth.
A complete of 47 bids had been positioned on the bike, with a French and an Italian bidder locked in a battle on Sunday evening. The previous ended up profitable.
The Pope acquired the bike as a gift from Bernal in June 2021, following the Colombian’s Giro d’Italia victory. On the time, the Ineos Grenadiers rider mentioned the duo’s assembly was “extra necessary than profitable the Giro and the Tour”.
“I believe I’ve had many experiences in my life, however that is distinctive,” mentioned Bernal, who’s a Catholic. “It’s essentially the most stunning expertise I’ve had in my life.”
The gifted Pinarello is a dimension 53cm body, adorned within the flag colors of Pope Francis’s native Argentina. It’s geared up with a Shimano Ultegra groupset, Imaginative and prescient Wheels, Most Extremely Talon handlebars and rim brakes.
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Bernal additionally gave the Pontiff a signed Giro d’Italia maglia rosa, which offered at public sale on Sunday for €1,853 (£1,587/$2,007) to a bidder within the US.
Each heaps had been listed by a non-public vendor on the Dutch on-line public sale web site Catawiki. In a press release, the positioning’s sports activities memorabilia skilled, and former pro-cyclist, Ana Maria Covrig mentioned the public sale of the bike was a “exceptional second” for Catawiki.
The public sale home has additionally just lately offered a rainbow jersey, signed by Mathieu van der Poel, for €7,750 (£6,638/$8,394), one in every of Jonas Vingegaard’s helmets for €445 (£381/$482), and a Schleck version 2012 Trek Madone bike for €2,250 (£1,927/$2,437).
In 2020, a motorcycle that three-time world champion Peter Sagan gave the pope offered at public sale for €30,000 (£25,701/$32,494). The Specialised Venge, colored within the yellow and white of the Papal States, was signed by the Pope, “making it much more treasured,” in response to the itemizing.
Funds from the Venge sale went to supporting medical workers at two hospitals in Italy in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
