Re: [CR]The Coppi "track" bike.

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:02:36 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: Bicycle Specialties <mjbarry@on.aibn.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]The Coppi "track" bike.
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Bicycle Specialties wrote:
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> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
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> I think the Museo got this one wrong, judging by the clearances of the wheels to the fork crown and the seat tube plus the road drop outs.
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> However I think that they have it right. I was at the "Coppi meeting" at London's Herne Hill track in the early fifties and Coppi rode a bike very similar to the one shown. The rear drop-outs were filed out Campag Paris-Roubaix. There was much consternation at the time as he was allowed to race the track with Q/R hubs whereas the rules forbade them. Somewhere I have a photo of the bike. I will try to dig it out and post it.
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> Mike Barry.
> in sunny Toronto.

Mike! Finally! I was hoping you'd delurk!

With the relaxed geometry, would this be more of a pursuit bike? Can't tell in the photos, but is it drilled for brakes do you remember? Did Bianchi just give him a road bike frame to do the pursuit on instead of making a relaxed pista for pursuit?

Chuck "I sit at the feet of the master, eager to learn" Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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