Joe, surely you know what your organism is......
Jay Sexton Sebastopol, CA
joeb-z@comcast.net wrote:
> A bicycle book collection needs the CONI book, published by the
> Central Sports School of the Italian Cycling Federation in 1962
> (presumably in conjunction with the Rome Olympics). An incredible font
> of knowledge for its time. My book has a funny underline (trust me, I
> was serious and so is the book starting with the Mussolini like
> introductory stare of the president of the the F.I.A.C.) "all such
> modifications should be assimilated so that the organism becomes
> accustomed to anything that may happen on the day of the race". I'm
> still working on that one but my prescience keeps coming up a wee bit
> short.
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Whitneyville, CT
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J Sexton" <jvs@sonic.net>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:24:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [CR] Olmo Special q / Sloane / CONI
>
> Interesting discussion kicked off by Eugene Sloanes book. Don't have
> the time to read much more of it, but I'm curious if anyone has a copy
> of Sloanes book for sale? Perusing my bicycle book collection, I see
> that I am missing that book.
>
> Phil Brown; what is the CONI book you mention?
>
> I'm finally getting around to putting the OLMO Special together that I
> have been carting around for years and discovered that the pedals have
> gone awol. To those knowledgeable, did the Special have Olmo branded
> pedals? The hubs, headset, seat collar, and crank arms are branded
> Olmo. If not branded Olmo, what pedals would have been appropriate for
> the Special?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jay Sexton
> Sebastopol, CA
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