Re: [CR] What can anyone tell me about Bartali (bike)?

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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:57:38 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: Hugh Thornton <hughwthornton@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] What can anyone tell me about Bartali (bike)?

2009/8/18 Hugh Thornton <hughwthornton@yahoo.co.uk>:
> It seems slightly strange that there should be a French-threaded metric 531
> bike with the Bartali brand -- it would seem to indicate that he licensed
> the name separately in France -- it is hard to imagine an Italian wanting to
> buy such a bike.

Presumably French made Bartali-

http://picasaweb.google.com/haxixe/Bartali?feat=directlink

Kurt Sperry
Bellingham, Washington
USA