[CR] Maino

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Subject: [CR] Maino
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:50:43 -0400
Thread-Topic: [CR] Maino
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From: "Silver, Mordecai" <MSilver@iso.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Today on my commute to work I saw what looked at first like a gaspipe bike, with nothing special about it, locked to a street rack. But the name caught my eye: Maino. There was a decal "Hand made in Italy." Some of the parts were obviously not original, but there was a Pivo stem and a cottered crankset. The rear derailleur was a Shimano Eagle. I had seen a Pivo stem before on a 1970's Gitane, so I thought that Pivo was a French maker.

Maino was a big manufacturer of bicycles in Italy and was one of the first companies to sponsor professional riders, and they had a team as late as the 1960's. The first campionissimo, Constante Girardengo, rode for them. Like Bianchi, they also made motorcycles.

I am curious to find out more about this marque.

Mordecai Silver
NY, NY