Vintage italian bicycle brands that have dissapeared?
07-10-06, 12:12 PM
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Vintage italian bicycle brands that have dissapeared?
Hi all,
Im trying to elaborate a list of vintage italian bicycle brands that are not producing frames/bikes anymore. Im new to the vintage bicycle world so I would like to ask for some help of you experts.
Thanks in advance
Gonzalo
Im trying to elaborate a list of vintage italian bicycle brands that are not producing frames/bikes anymore. Im new to the vintage bicycle world so I would like to ask for some help of you experts.
Thanks in advance
Gonzalo
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Pogliaghi, Umberto Dei, Frejus, Legnano, and Milani just for starters.
I would venture to say that there are more than a few folks who think
Colnago, De Rosa, Pinarello also given the carbon fibre bikes they currently build.
marty
I would venture to say that there are more than a few folks who think
Colnago, De Rosa, Pinarello also given the carbon fibre bikes they currently build.
marty
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Glamozi, Chiorda, Giradengo, Montelatici, Vinci, Vinzini are a few more.
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Marty already mentioned Frejus - which really pains me. They made some absolutely gorgeous bicycles.
Add Torpado (I think)
Add Torpado (I think)
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My 1971 Italvega was made by Torpado in Italy. Italvega was a Trademark name of Ben Olken who was the distributor in the U.S. but the bikes were all made and fully assembled at the Torpado factory. I don't know if Torpado still makes frames.
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I had a Bugatti. I don't know the story on it, but it seems to be Italian of mid to low quality. Bugatti also makes hella nice cars.
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Torpado also stopped doing business. After the owner was asassinated by the red brigade, his family sold the business to foreign owners & it quickly disappeared. Don
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My bike is from the Palo Alto bike shop. Popular consensus is that it was made by Biemmezeta, who by the looks of it, made pretty nice frames. I haven't been able to find much info about them, so I think they're probably defunct.
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Thanks to all for your help, can anybody point me to websites where I can find pics of these bikes?
Thanks again,
Gonzalo
Thanks again,
Gonzalo
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Gonzalo,
There's the church museum in Ghisallo, Italy, but their site doesn't focus much on individual bikes. Try these:
https://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/
https://www.classicrendezvous.com/
https://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/
There's the church museum in Ghisallo, Italy, but their site doesn't focus much on individual bikes. Try these:
https://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/
https://www.classicrendezvous.com/
https://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/
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Originally Posted by cudak888
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Originally Posted by spaniardclimber
Thanks to all for your help, can anybody point me to websites where I can find pics of these bikes?
Thanks again,
Gonzalo
Thanks again,
Gonzalo
Welcome to the world of beautiful classic road bikes. The Classic Rendezvous website that USAZorro pointed you to (see above) is more fun than should be legal. It has more photos and info than is safe to ingest at one sitting. I recommend it highly.
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Thanks again to all.
I've been in the Madona de Ghisallo church just some days ago, it was incredible, I'll post some pictures in a few minutes.
I've been in the Madona de Ghisallo church just some days ago, it was incredible, I'll post some pictures in a few minutes.
