Re: [CR]Lenticular "Pino" wheel

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:10:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "Neil Crawford" <crawdad1959@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR]Lenticular "Pino" wheel
To: "g.boggs" <g.boggs@comcast.net>, FujiFish1@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <000601c5ed78$2884afd0$6401a8c0@hal9000>

I had a pino seat post in the late 70's realy light. Tell me about his wheel building with the lock nuts on the spoke nipples. The guy was way ahead of his time.

Crawdad

"g.boggs" <g.boggs@comcast.net> wrote:
    Pino had nothing to do with that "Lentil" bike. He was present at the time of testing, with a bike of his own, which is the coventional track bike that is on the CR Pino page. That bike, which was built in the "Centro Studio" at the Olympic Velodrome, made it's way back to Detroit (Warren) where I first saw it. I used to ride it around Pino's neighborhood....This was back in 1987/88. Pino was going back to and forth to Italy, bringing frames when he returned to the States. The track bike , My 58cm road bike and a road bike in grey primer that he said was built for Sarroni were memorable. There are two floating around with Ron Finch http://www.finchscustoms.com/ paint jobs but no one knows who's got them. They ended up as team bikes for the Flying Rhino CC and have vanished. I believe this track bike along with the Pi-Behr Ti track bike is still in the possesion of Marcella, his daughter. The red bike that Pino is holding in the photo on CR is one of the Pino-Cecil Behringer 6-4 Titanium bikes. It has a Magnesium seat post and seat frame like the one on Merckx's hour record bike. It weighs 11 1/2 lbs if I remember correctly. I never rode that one...Too damn expensive! I was a mechanic at Kinetic Systems in Clarkston, where I met Pino. We used to hang out. Greg Boggs Waterford, MI

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Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Lenticular "Pino" wheel

> So the wheel is not made by Pino, OK ... but the BIKE was made by Pino,
> right? Anyone have the long story on this one? Was he in Detroit or
> Italy when
> this was built ... and when was it?
>
> Greg supplied the photo from Dale's Pino page here:
>
>
> Ciao,
> Mark Agree
> Southfield MI USA
> ~ ~ ~
>
>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:56:43 -0500
> From: "g.boggs"
> Subject: [CR]Lenticular "Pino" wheel
>
> The wheel depicted in the photo found here
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/images/USA/components/Pino_1s.jpg is
> wrongly attributed to Pino Morroni. Pino himself told me this was not
> his work.
> I believe this wheel to be the invention of the famous Itallian
> biomechanics wiz, Antonio Dal Monte. I have the newspaper article from
> IL Messagero from 1987 as well as photos provided to me by Pino
> (autographed by himself and Moser).
> Greg Boggs
>
>
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