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Bike Needs Home

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:00 pm
by bikehart
Not certain I want sell it but I have moved it 5 times in the last week so it might be time. Open to offers and funny stories..
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Re: Bike Needs Home

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:16 pm
by Lister Farrar
Not funny, but cool history of the Torpado brand.

Once one of the biggest Italian bike brands in the 50s and 60’s and was still popular in the 80’s in Quebec.

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/ ... o_main.htm

Arcane detail:
Torpado was Aldo Moser’s (brother of Francesco Moser, hour record holder, and winner of the giro winner, worlds, Roubaix etc.) first pro team. He won the tropheo Barrachi, a classic 2-up time trial twice, and gp des nations tt, the unofficial world championship of time trialling (before it was added to the worlds).

Re: Bike Needs Home

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:56 pm
by Louise Wallace
Keep it!

Re: Bike Needs Home

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 2:28 pm
by bikehart
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Re: Bike Needs Home

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:16 pm
by Lister Farrar
I think we need a L’Eroica ride in Victoria. Where else can you flaunt your uninhibited brake cables and chrome lugs?

Check out the video. https://eroica.cc/en/gaiole