The name on their decals is Baggio Cycles Sports ... now sadly out of business. <http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/fujifish1/MarksVintage/Torpado/Tour_1960_ Baggio/Torp60_Tour55cmBlue15.jpg.html>
I too would like to find some old timers from that shop, who could tell
stories, etc., about the store's close involvement with Torpado. They sponsored
racing teams, at least since the 1940s if I'm not mistaken, and used Torpados
for their team bikes. I think these are some Baggio cyclists in a photo taken
in the late 1930s or 1940s that belongs to list member Mike Short, along with
the oldest Torpado that I have seen and been insanely jealous over :)
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Ciao, Mark Agree Southfield MI USA ~ ~ ~
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:03:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> To: Sarah Gibson <sadiejane9@hotmail.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]six day racing etc
I think I may have visited the Montreal shop in 1974 when I was in Montreal for the World Championships (at which Merckx won the pro road race, outsprinting Poulidor in the final straight). It was a shop with an Italian name, may even have been called Baggio Cycles. The pro bikes for sale there were mostly Italian as I recall and Torpado seemed to be the "featured" marque. I've been back to Montreal a couple of time since, but not tried to find the shop, so I don't know if it still exists.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
Sarah Gibson <sadiejane9@hotmail.com> wrote: greetings all recently rereading six days of madness and there are numerous references to racing at the american royal bldg in kansas city in 1937 is anyone on this list familar with six day racing in kc? or have any documents that attest to such? id love to have photocopies of any such things race flyers etc
also it mentions a bicycle shop in montreal owned by former six-day racer fioravanti baggio r any of our canadian brethern familar with this shop? any chance it still exists in some form or another?
thanks fer yr time
peace
sarahgibsonkansascity