Faggin is still around. They, like any bike company that isn´t called Colnago, are, or were, struggling a bit and now produce leisure bikes as well as road and trackmade mostly of aluminum, or aluminium for you Norris. Yes, the are very nice.
speaking of "unmanly" names; a bassoon is called "fagott" in german. How about taking that in your mouth
Kim "Sax not Bassoon" Klakow Berlin, home of the Fagott, Germany
> In a message dated 7/2/2004 3:54:51 PM PST, Norris.Lockley@btopenworld.com
> writes:
> It's still raining November style over here so I'm still trawling the
> net...and came across a couple of interesting Italian frames on the US
> Ebay
> /Sporting goods/Cycling/Road bikes and Parts/Frames listings.
>
> The first one is a 57cms FAGGIN road, in reasonable nick with all the
> engravings you would expect to find on such a frame. I worked for a few
> years for a
> French company at the Milan and Cologne bike shows, and found that Emilio
> Faggin's frames were held in quite high esteem... not as high as some but
> still up
> there in the rankings..The price is cheap too at around $50. Item No
> 3685934392
>
> The second one is a 60cms Freschi, of Milan. Unfortunately the photos
> don't
> show much detail and tend to make the frame look a little odd. I spent
> some
> time with the Freschis in the early 80s, and thought that the little firm
> produced some excellent quality frames.. and tandems too. They did a
> short-wheelbase
> model with a split seat-tube that looked quite interesting. Item No
> 3686229370. generally there was a good quality of hand-crafting/finishing
> on Freschis.
>
> Not having been a member of the List for very long I just wondered if
> Freschis have been discussed and, if so, what conclusions were reached.
> Norris Lockley.. Settle UK
>
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> Norris-
> You are correct, those look like some nice stallions. I too have
> always
> heard from the cognositi (sp?) that Faggin were top-end bikes. I don't
> know if
> they are still aorund or whether they ever sponsored any high-profile
> team,
> but of the Faggin that I have seen, they were all high-end exquisite
> bikes.
> Short story, (and you may have been heard on CR list before) about a
> fellow I ran into years ago who became the owner of a Faggin. I really
> can't
> recall the circumstances about how he came to be the owner, (maybe he
> stole it??)
> but he felt felt the named Faggin somehow reflected a personal unmanly
> aura to
> his bike. So he took off the "F" anywhere he could find it, and soon
> settled
> into his new found masculinity of riding an "aggin" bike.
> I can still see this guy in my mind's eye now. What a hoot! I get a
> kick
> out of everytime I think of him pedaling down the road. He won't get
> caught
> riding any Faggin bike, no siree! Of course most, but not
> everybody--especially
> this guy--knows that Faggin is pronouced
> < fa' / jeen >.
> I sometimes wonder if anyone ever told him the correct way to pronouce
> it
> and if that made a difference to him.
> cheers-
> Dave Anderson
> Cut Bank MT
>
>
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