Hi,
I have recently tried different web sites trying to have informations about a bike I own but didn't have any help yet! Shall I learn more here?
Back in 1966-68 I had bought from Giuseppe Marinoni a bike that was his own older one...it was a Serena made in brescia,italy. I've got to know mr. Marinoni through mr. Gaston Langlois who I knew at the time and who talked me into trying bicycle training..I remember having paid 170.00 cdn. dollars for that bike at the time.If I remember good this was a bike mr. Marinoni ordered and had made to his measures in italy at the time and had used it for racing. This period is before he started building his own bikes and if again I remember good he could then hardly speak french or english ..I've joined both of them mr. Langlois and Giuseppe few times for training..I was 20 years old then and in pretty good shape but have I ever found it difficult training into cyclism..my carreer didn't go very far having started travelling out of montréal for my work...
Some almost 40 years after this I still have my Serena and haven't used it very much. But I like the bike and would like to bring it back to what it was when I got it. In 1990 or around this I've asked a friend of mine to have the bike repainted and "modernized"..my error! It then got painted ,I've been told at Marinoni's shop, but lost then some of his original stuff I'm even not sure of wich! For the least the brakes have been replaced ..possibly the seat post and the handle bar (do I have the right terms here?) Just about everything was and most still campagnolo..the front "badge" says: fabricada,bicyclette,Serena,brescia..this is still there.
I would like to hear if anybody here could tell me about who was Serena..the builder. I think remembering some cyclists at the time telling me that Serena was a recognized good bike at the time...but how strange no one can comment about it now!
I would like to have the bike repainted the grey color it was and redone the way it was..anybody can tell me where to go? I guess I could bring the bike to Marinoni's shop but am not sure if it's the best place to have the bike redone?
In any case I would like to hear whathever about this famous "unfamous" brand of bike..I could try taking pictures and posting them if it could help!
thanks, Ronald Manseau.