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August 13, 2026

Team Policumbent announces Mouser as Electronics Partner

Team Policumbent is thrilled to announce a new sponsorship with Mouser, leading distributor of electronic components.

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August 6, 2026

Team Policumbent announces ABC Tools as Main Partner for the 2026 season

Team Policumbent is pleased to announce a new sponsorship with ABC Tools, a leading Italian company in the field of tooling.

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July 29, 2026

Pedaling kinetics: Conversion and filtering on OpenSim

Workflow and analysis of cycling kinetics on OpenSim

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May 25, 2026

Policumbent and Diego Colombari: Masters of handcycling, 10 km Record

Politecnico di Torino’s Team Policumbent breaks a new handcycling World Record!

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October 21, 2025

Policumbent and Diego Colombari break the Hour Record

A new World Record for Team Policumbent of Politecnico di Torino! With the handtrike Cerberus, Diego Colombari registers a run of 34.90 km in one hour.

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June 20, 2025

Labo-System is a new partner for Policumbent

We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Labo-System s.a.s., a historic Turin-based company and a benchmark in electronic instrumentation.

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May 16, 2025

OpenSim for the Analysis of Cycling Movement

Development of a Reclined Musculoskeletal Model in OpenSim for the Analysis of Cycling Movement

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December 30, 2022

THANK YOU, LU!

Team leader: the Team thanks to Lucrezia Pasi, and the "passing of the baton" to Alberto Eusebio.

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August 24, 2022

+CIM4.0

+CIM4.0

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April 12, 2022

OUR SOFTWARES: SMARTCAE

Working with composite materials involves numerous challenges, thanks to the collaboration with SmartCAE, we have an extra weapon to organize the prodoction.

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January 8, 2022

A new biker for “Torella”

A new biker for “Torella”

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October 25, 2021

EUROPEAN SPEED BATTLE 2021

The weekend we had waited for so long has come to an end: the European Speed ​​Battle 2021

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October 6, 2021

Looking for records

Team Policumbent organizes the European Speed Battle 2021

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July 26, 2021

Estimating the drag coefficient from experimental data

Being able to simulate a run before actually getting to the race location allows estimating the potential of a bike.

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May 12, 2021

FEM analysis – Policumbent’s Team

FEM analysis is the acronym for Finite Element Method

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April 5, 2020

2020 here

This new year is going to be full of initiatives, improvements and lots of work for us to do. To start off our news: we have a new project named Handbike.

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April 8, 2019

Fighting the rolling resistance

Analysing the factors that influence Taurus’ performance, we can’t forget to mention the contact points between the bike and the asphalt: the tires.

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March 11, 2019

Predict the future with a Matlab algorithm

Data Analys elaborates all the data in order to provide useful information about the performances achieved by the bicycle or by the rider himself.

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January 25, 2019

Taurus’s transmission: features and upgrades

​The transmission has to be studied carefully in order to waste as little watts as possible because of friction losses.

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February 5, 2018

A blast of wind for Taurus

Air drag is a silent but effective enemy and TAURUS knows how to deal with it.

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