When I visted with Pete Rich (of Velo Sport fame) in Berkeley, California l ast month, he told me that he might have brought the first Colnago into the states...Had a great story of following a crew of Molteni riders back to E rnesto's shop after leaving the Vigorelli. He is not a professor, not very tall...though I didn't catch his foot size. Close enough to call it a match?
Matthew Bowne Brooklyn, New York
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> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:31:41 -0500
> From: veronaman@gmail.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Fwd: [CR]re: new zealand colnago
>
> That, the first bikes being badged La Freccia, corresponds to the Colnago
> book by Sergio Meda.
>
> And speaking of holy grails: according to the book the first foreign
> purchaser, "let's say it was 1960" Meda writes, was purchased by
> a university professor from Berkeley. He was over 6 feet tall, and "Colna
go
> remembers him not so much because he was the first but because he took si
ze
> thirteen shoes." Who might that have been?
>
> Angel Garcia
> Verona, Italy
>
>
> snip:
> Just to clarify my earlier post on the subject, I am told (I have not
> verified myself) that the original colnago road and track bikes in the
> 50s were badged "la Freccia" (the arrow)...
> Charles Andrews
> Los Angeles
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