[CR] Bruegelmann bankrupt

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:51:13 -0400
From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@gmail.com>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Bruegelmann bankrupt


Thanks for the info Dirk. I know that Bruegelman was also the official supplier to the German national 1972 Olympic team. I don't know if that was the case for other years. I have a few photos of the Bruegeleman storefront in Frankfurt circa 1970/1972 that I will have to find...

Angel Garcia Long Valley NJ -- You may enjoy reading my blogs: http://www.italiancyclingjournal.blogspot.com http://www.cinellionly.blogspot.com

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dirk Feeken <dirk.feeken@t-online.de> Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:06 PM Subject: [CR] Bruegelmann bankrupt To: Classic Rendezvous Mailing List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Today I learned that the famous bicycle shop Bruegelman in Frankfurt Germany went bankrupt and folded end of 2009. Bruegelmann is known to the list mainly because of the famous yellow/red Cinelli Superleggera from the early 70s, which was manufactured exclusively for Bruegelmann, the largest Cinelli dealer outside of Italy back then: http://italiancyclingjournal.blogspot.com/2007/08/reminiscing-about-my-1972- cinelli.html In fact a pretty large fraction of high end vintage bicycles showing up today over here is coming from Bruegelmann. They have been the largest leightweight bicycle dealer in Europe during the 60s and 70s and survived until last year still a pretty big player in the game and mail order shop. What made them important for ³us² was the fact that they had a huge stock of vintage spare parts up to the end. Next to current products, stuff like Nuovo Record axles, or Regina cogs, non aero brake levers etc.. could be found even in their latest thick but lovely anachronistic and (always by the boss) amateurishly layouted 2009 catalogs. What drives me mad is the reaction in the press. They say (in some kind of chuckling voice) that this stock-keeping of parts was extremely stupid and the reason for the crash while ³smart² and ³more intelligent² mail order and internet companies don¹t have any stock at all, just sell in real time. Yes, maybe true, but I don¹t have to like it.....

Dirk
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Dirk Feeken
Heidelberg
Germany