Like so many useful things, cycling apparel was difficult to obtain in Europe after World War One. The region had been thoroughly ravished by a half-decade of brutal conflict and matters of sport went largely unaddressed by all but its most ardent supporters. Margaret Holdsworth, longtime British postal service employee with a family history in [...]
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Raleigh has its phoenix, Colnago its ace of clubs, Fuji its stylized mountain, and Schwinn its four-pointed star, but Legnano may be the only bicycle company whose headbadge depicts a sword-lofting warrior, Alberto da Giussano, celebrating triumph — specifically, the triumph — at the Battle of Legnano in 1176, when the “Free Communes” of the [...] Hearing it might shock the average rider of your swoopy, parrot-painted Italiano-alluminio wonderbike, but many such bikes are actually way, way old skool. In fact they’re so old skool they still spell it “old school.” Aluminum frames? Octagonal tubes? Coupled bikes that disassemble with a few twists of a wrench for easy traveling? How about [...] A Frenchman named Louis Moire was working as a bicycle salesman not long before World War Two. An astute observer of commerce, Moire surveyed the commercial landscape of his chosen field and decided what its customers needed were affordable cyclotouring bicycles – something capable of competing with constructeurs like Maury and Pitard, just less on [...] Browse 86 photos or View as a slide show |
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