The stories of "Chairman" Bill's rides in Italy (elsewhere on the site) are also interesting. He even mentions Italian builders typically sizing bigger frames for riders so they can get the stems a bit higher... - must be talking about the CR timeframe, not now in this day of ultra compact, nose on the front wheel race frames.
John Price Denver CO
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Schmidt [mailto:chuckschmidt@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:53 AM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]NOW:Owen Mulholland stories WAS:Girardengo decal information, please
Mark Bulgier wrote:
>
> Sorry, no pics that show the decals, but here's a great portrait of
> Constante Girardengo on a track bike - what, 20s vintage?
>
> http://bulgier.net/
>
> It's from the Owen Mulholland article on Italian Campionissimi from
Bicycle
> Guide magazine. The rest of the article is there too, scanned by Steve
> Kurt. Check it out, Mulholland is a fine writer and historian.
Here's a link to 20 of Owen Mulholland's articles of "giants of the
road" on Torelli's web site; very entertaining:
http://www.torelli.com/
from my links page:
http://www.velo-retro.com/
from my up dated web site at: http://www.velo-retro.com
Owen has been working on a book to be published by VeloNews soon.
Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal
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