Re: [CR]unusual Campy seatpost?

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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:38:48 -0800
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]unusual Campy seatpost?
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Viners seem common as city bikes in the Arno valley- Arezzo, Firenze, right down to Pisa and Lucca. I spotted one in Pisa sporting a 1st gen Super Record derailleur!

Here's a post I made in April with links to pics:

I really enjoy city bike spotting in Italy. One bit of advice: Don't bother in the hill towns, there are hardly any. So... Siena, Perugia, Gubbio bad; Pisa, Lucca, Firenze (Arno river towns) good.

Here's a bike that for some reason caught my eye in a bikerack near the train station in a rather run-down section of Pisa- just another rusty old Viner:

http://members.atlasf1.com/desmo/IMG_1024.JPG

So I move in for a closer look... is that a Super Record clanger...?

http://members.atlasf1.com/desmo/IMG_1023.JPG

Yep! 1st generation no less!

http://members.atlasf1.com/desmo/IMG_1022.JPG

And for those who think one cannot obtain a sufficiently upright posture sans a hideous extended head tube I offer into evidence this ape hangered classic Gianni Motta I found in Città di Castello. Note the elegant umbrella mount too.

http://members.atlasf1.com/desmo/IMG_1823.jpg

You must see a bereted old gentleman tooling around cobbled city streets with an extended umbrella in one hand and a load of groceries in the other in the rain to appreciate fine bike piloting!

Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA

On 12/18/06, Angel Garcia <veronaman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Viner bikes are still very popular in northern Italy, and you see quite a
> bit of the modern ones here in Verona. I found this bit of info about
> their
> origins:
>
> "In 1947 Viviano Nerozzi took the first 2 letters of his first name and
> the
> first 3 letters of his surname and founded the VINER cycle factory near
> Florence, Italy. By the 1960 Viner cycles were a respected brand of
> quality
> cycles, but sold only in central Italy. Currently Viner bikes are used by
> professional European teams and riders who demands a great riding bicycle
> that is still made by hand in Italy."
> Sorry, can't help you out about the seatpost.
>
> Angel Garcia
> Verona, IT
>
>
>
>
> On 12/17/06, Leonard Diamond <leonarddiamond@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > I just came into procession of what looks like a 2 bolt Campy NR
> > seatpost. It is Pantographed with the name Viner on the sides and a V
> > on the front. It has Campagnolo with the globe and Patent Campagnolo a t
> > the top of the piller.
> > The unusual thing is the bottom is solid, ie you cannot look up into th e
> > seatpost. Please enlighten me!
> >
> > Len Diamond
> > Ridgewood, NJ