Not the cyclist, the bike. I have found a link to Bartali through my research with The Sabatini family in Italy. It seems that Franco Sabatini was building the Bartali bikes in the early to mid 1980's after having closed his bike building business. I was sent a picture of a Bartali track frame built by Franco Sabatini. I recently acquired a Sabatini track bike built about 1978 and the craftsmanship is unbelieveable. I just don't know if this guy ever poppoed up on anyone's radar screen since he never imported to the US and since he was a builder for Bartali.
I will be sending Dale some information on Sabatini soon, but was just wondering if anyone else had made the Bartali-Sabatini connection.
Thanks for anything that you have.
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Mark Pounders
Richmond, Virginia
USA