Re: [CR]Nice scan for Bianchi fans

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From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@comcast.net>
To: "Steve Birmingham" <sbirmingham@mindspring.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <040001c4f7f2$a3011540$6401a8c0@steve>
Subject: Re: [CR]Nice scan for Bianchi fans
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:23:34 -0500


Very nice. This appears to be an ad/announcement of the victories of "The Champions" German Alonso and J. Capdepoint using Bianchi bikes in national championship races in Uruguay in 1923. Refers to Bianchi bikes as perfect and without equal (perfecta y sin igual).

Hmmmm, there never seems to be much "chatter" about Bianchi on the list....

Angel Garcia Long Valley, NJ


> Here's a scan of a neat old poster I got a couple years ago.
>
> http://www.mindspring.com/~sblackstone/poster.jpg
>
>
> Pretty interesting to see that they were exporting to Uruguay in
> 1923. I can't find much info about Capdepont, but he was the national
> champion
> for something called 60km inseperable teams in 1928. I'll probably do some
> scans of
> the other few items I got at the same time, all related to the same rider.
>
> Steve Birmingham
> Lowell, Ma