Re: [CR]Baggio Cycles, Montreal. Was: six day racing etc

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From: "ternst" <ternst1@cox.net>
To: "Neil Crawford" <crawdad1959@yahoo.ca>, <FujiFish1@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Baggio Cycles, Montreal. Was: six day racing etc
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:24:35 -0800
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cc: jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net

Indeed! Baggio was in the thick of the action. Met him when we did Quebec-Montreal and the Tour du St. Laurent back in the mid '50's. The big Eastern canadian teams were the "Amateur teams" of Baggio and Dynamax. They would be on the start with about 30/40 TOUGH riders from Italy, France, Great Britain, and a few derivatives. If you wanted to place, you had to align yourself with one of them or it was VERY tough sledding. It was fun while we suffered.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA


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From: Neil Crawford
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Subject: Re: [CR]Baggio Cycles, Montreal. Was: six day racing etc



>I have been to this shop as a young boy while attending a track meet at the
>Olympic Velodrome in 1976. In the photo I noticed one name Albert
>Schelstrate (SP) If this is him he can be reached at the Forest City
>Velodrome goggle it. Albert and his sons built this track recently. Albert
>did change his name ?but he could be reached. Albert also built many
>velodrome in Delhi, Chicago & Detroit I believe
>
> The name on their decals is Baggio Cycles Sports ... now sadly out of
> business.
> Baggio/Torp60_Tour55cmBlue15.jpg.html>
>
> I too would like to find some old timers from that shop, who could tell
> stories, etc., about the store's close involvement with Torpado. They
> sponsored
> racing teams, at least since the 1940s if I'm not mistaken, and used
> Torpados
> for their team bikes. I think these are some Baggio cyclists in a photo
> taken
> in the late 1930s or 1940s that belongs to list member Mike Short, along
> with
> the oldest Torpado that I have seen and been insanely jealous over :)
>
>
> Ciao,
> Mark Agree
> Southfield MI USA
> ~ ~ ~
>
>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:03:12 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos
> To: Sarah Gibson ,
> classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]six day racing etc
>
> I think I may have visited the Montreal shop in 1974 when I was in
> Montreal
> for the World Championships (at which Merckx won the pro road race,
> outsprinting Poulidor in the final straight). It was a shop with an
> Italian name, may
> even have been called Baggio Cycles. The pro bikes for sale there were
> mostly
> Italian as I recall and Torpado seemed to be the "featured" marque. I've
> been
> back to Montreal a couple of time since, but not tried to find the shop,
> so I
> don't know if it still exists.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX
>
> Sarah Gibson wrote:
> greetings all
> recently rereading six days of madness
> and there are numerous references to racing
> at the american royal bldg in kansas city
> in 1937
> is anyone on this list familar with six day racing in kc?
> or have any documents that attest to such?
> id love to have photocopies of any such things
> race flyers etc
>
> also it mentions a bicycle shop in montreal
> owned by former six-day racer
> fioravanti baggio
> r any of our canadian brethern familar with this shop?
> any chance it still exists in some form or another?
>
> thanks fer yr time
> peace
> sarahgibsonkansascity
>
>
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> Neil Thomas Crawford
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