[CR]re Maino

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

From: "chris ioakimedes" <chriseye@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:10:14 +0000
Subject: [CR]re Maino

Coppi's first bike when he was a kid was a Maino.

Chris Ioakimedes

Fairfax California

<<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. =20

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. =20

I am curious to find out more about this marque.

Mordecai Silver NY, NY =20>>

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