AW: [CR]Pic of the Day - Moser Before Francesco - My pre Francesco bike

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From: "Schmid" <schmidi@gaponline.de>
To: "'Aldo Ross'" <aldoross4@siscom.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: AW: [CR]Pic of the Day - Moser Before Francesco - My pre Francesco bike
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:31:13 +0200
In-Reply-To: <003101c76e34$cc326d00$d115fbd1@Newhouse>


Thank you Aldo for bringing to my knowledge that Francesco had a younger brother which I did not know until then. I set up a new Album on wool-jersey showing pictures of what appears to be a fifties or sixties Moser bike. http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/Drexl/Cicli+Moser/ I got this bike for free from my LBS. It was sitting outside for soem time and because of it's bad shape i got it for free. I cleaned It up a little bit after this pics were made and lubed the relevant moving parts a little bit. Even the tires hold air and it turned out to ride nearly nicely. I am thinking of keeping it since it is with 57cm about the smalles frame size I can ride. I might put dropbars and a single chainwheel back on. Still i am not certain whether I should perform a full restoration on this bike or just clean it up a little more and ride it occasionally. What do you guy think?

Regards

Michael Schmid Oberammergau Germany Tel.: +49 8821 798790 Fax.:+49 8821 798791 mail: schmid@zunterer.com http://www.zunterer.com

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] Im Auftrag von Aldo Ross Gesendet: Samstag, 24. März 2007 17:52 An: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Betreff: [CR]Pic of the Day - Moser Before Francesco

Pic of the Day 24 March, 2007 "Moser Before Francesco"

I've posted this pic before under a different heading, but it is perhaps

worth revisiting in light of recent discussions about "Moser".

The image is from the 1961 Tour of Lombardy, and the riders shown are Franco Balmamion (leading), Bruno Mealli, Anatole Novak (Alcyon), Aldo Moser (Ghigi), Carlo Brugnami (Torpado), and Edgard Sorgeloos (Faema).
>From "But et Club - Le Miroir des Sports" No.879, 23 October 1961.

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/pd/lombardia61.JPG.html

Francesco Moser's older brother Aldo had a long professional career (1954-1973) which overlapped the careers of such riders as Bartali, Coppi, Louison Bobet, Anquetil, Poulidor, Gimondi, Merckx. He won the Barracchi Trophy two years in a row, with Ercole Baldini, in 1958 and 1959.

Just look at the list of teams for which Aldo rode:

Torpado (1954-1956) Leo - Chlorodont (1957) Cali Broni - Girardengo (1958) EMI (1959-1960) VOV et Ghigi (1961) San Pellegrino (1962 - 1963) Lygie (1964) Maino (1965) Vittadello (1966-1967) Pepsi-Cola (1968) GBC (1969-1972) Filotex (1973) (with younger brother Francesco in his first year as a pro)

That would make one COOL collection of jerseys!

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio