RE: [CR]six day racing etc

(Example: Bike Shops:R.E.W. Reynolds)

From: "David Bilenkey" <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]six day racing etc
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:43:23 -0500
In-Reply-To: <887349.34381.qm@web82211.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Baggio Cycles Sports

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/Bilenkeys-Bikestash/1974TorpadoPista/ 117 _1781_IMG.jpg.html

Shop decal as pictured on what was my '74 Torpado track bike (since sold to a Mr. Michael T. Robbins of Brooklyn, NY). I've seen numerous Torpados with Baggio decals.

Having not been in the Montreal area for years I don't know if they're still in business, although they are mentioned at the bottom of this Parks Canada page:

http://www.pc.gc.ca/canada/proj/Main/corridor4_e.asp

Cheers,

David -- David Bilenkey Ottawa, Ontario, Canada dbilenkey@sympatico.ca

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/Bilenkeys-Bikestash/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of
> Jerome & Elizabeth Moos
> Sent: January 22, 2007 12:03 PM
> To: Sarah Gibson; 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