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From their website: http://www.amarobikes.com/supermotarden.html
The reasons for the Supermotard are difficult to explain, because depending of the point of view, it can be the biggest absurdity or the biggest exponent of feelings in a bicycle. There's no compromise at all, the track geometries give an inmediate response (but no errors forgiven), the fixed gear transmission gives an unbeatable simbiosis with the bike, and both aspects together makes one of the most demanding driving experiences possible, but also, one of the most rewarding ones.
26" mtb tyres gives the chance to take all this properties to the limit, on loose grip surfaces, like dirt tracks, and also a higher reliability in urban rides, against pot holes, etc.
If all those explanations are not enough, then maybe could be said that the Lollobrigida project is the result of a lot of nights dreaming of the ultimate racing bicycle in a postnuclear apocalyptic world, where there's nothing left but remains of what in another time was a perfect tarmacs and squared cities world...