Nick,
Wow. Thank you so much for posting that link. I feel that my spare time for the next couple of days will be consumed with viewing all those cool bikes.
Nice to see the regular, non-race oriented machines. The stuff of daily life !
So many early Italian, European, and English bikes were consumed by World Wa r II, it's remarkable that these have survived and been gathered together by someone who obviously cares about them, and the history that they represent .
Thanks again!
Cheers,
Chris Wimpey
San Diego, CA USA
where the more humble machines are also appreciated
-----Original Message----- From: nicbordeaux <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 1:18 pm Subject: [CR]Italian bikes, the real ones.
A while back there was some small discussion about where were all the "ordi
nary", eg non-racer" Italian bikes. The conclusion or general consensus was
that they must have bought their porteurs, and anything not racer from Fra
nce. How very wrong. I was delighted to find a guy who has a monumental col
lection of Italian non racers. Stuff like Umberto Dei uprights. And a lot m
ore. For anybody interested in bicycles, more particularly Italian bicycles
, and in particular what people rode, what the famed makers made apart from
Giro and TDF winners, here, with permission from the owner of the pics, is
a link that should be mandatory visiting: http://tiny.cc/
And in case there is a lin
e break rendering that url useless, here it is ag
ain http://tiny.cc/
Nick March, Agen, Lot et Garonne 47000, France