It's exactly the contradiction that I thought that was being stated in the article; the "why" Triestina was added. And there was also the point about Cottur named bikes (which do not appear in Lou Deeter's BIKE GUIDE).
Ciao,
Angel Garcia Verona, italy
On 3/10/06, Sergio Servadio <servadio@df.unipi.it> wrote:
>
> The Maaslands wrote:
>
> >"Cosi, prima sulla sua bici Wilier Triestina (la Wilier, vicentina,
> >aggiunto quel Triestina in suo onere),...
> >
> (I
> guess this was 'onore', instead)
>
> >Thus, first on his Wilier Triestina bike (Wilier, from the province of
> >Vicenza, added the Triestina part in his honor),...
> >
> I was told by a friend of mine, from Riese PioX in fact, who used to
> train with a younger son of the Wilier family, that the 'Triestina' part
> was added to celebrate the reunion of the town of Trieste to Italy.
> Who's right?
>
> Sergio
> Pisa
>
> s