Pic of the Day Magni at Paris-Roubaix 1948
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Not a great scan, but interesting shot of Fiorenzo Magni at the 1948 Paris-Roubaix. The bike is a Wilier-Triestina, almost certainly copper plated with chrome fork and stay ends. I was expecting to see a Campagnolo cambio corsa shifter, but this looks to be a Simplex TdF. This and other pics from the same race reveal no front shifter on this bike. Note the small front mud guard, LONG steel stem, heavily-padded handlebars and brake levers, gonfleur on the downtube, and no water bottle in his single bar-mounted cage.
Magni went on to finish 5th, 37 seconds behind winner Rik van
Steenbergen.
>From "But et Club" No.114, 5th April 1948.
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Aldo Ross
BlueBall, Ohio