Re: [CR]Was: Anyone know this bike? Now Fiorelli

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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:58:42 -0500
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Was: Anyone know this bike? Now Fiorelli
To: LouDeeter@aol.com, Mary Kaminski <corgwyn@erols.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <62E37AE8.5665A1E9.0269AA25@aol.com>


This is a make that went downhill. If your familiarity starts with the post 1972 bike boom era like me you probably think these were pretty bad, at any price point.

However, as I posted a while back, I was walking through Times Square in NYC when I spotted a Fiorelli track bike in the back of a construction workers truck (all chained up for sure). I stopped to admire it and he came up. He said it was a 1959 and to my eye the Campagnolo components matched. It was a very nice bike indeed and in wonderful condition.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: LouDeeter@aol.com
To: Mary Kaminski
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:10 AM
Subject: [CR]Was: Anyone know this bike? Now Fiorelli



> Mary Kaminski asked about Fiorelli. Here is what I have in the Used Bike Buyers Guide: Lou Deeter, Orlando FL
>
>
> FIORELLI: : http://www.retecivica.novi-ligure.al.it/fiorelli.html (information in Italian only) previously located in Novi Ligure (AL) Italy. 411 S. Main St., Mt. Airy NC 27030. Sponsored pro teams in the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019 s which included Kubler. Koblet, Robic and Motta. Fausto Coppi branded bicycles were produced by Fiorelli during his last years as a pro as well as following the death of Coppi. In the 90\u2019s, when the owners decided to retire, the rights to the Coppi name were transferred to the Masciaghi brothers. Factory was founded in 1932 in Novi Ligure in northern Italy.
> Models:
> 531 531
> Campionissimo 87 SLX
> Giro d'Italia 87-88 SL
> Milan-San Remo 86 Falk Chromoly
> Milan-San Remo 87-88 Aelle