I really enjoy city bike spotting in Italy. One bit of advice: Don't bothe r 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:
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So I move in for a closer look... is that a Super Record clanger...?
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Yep! 1st generation no less!
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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.
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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
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