Re: [CR] What can anyone tell me about Bartali (bike)?

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:03:12 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: Mark Pounders <markpounders@gmail.com>
Cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] What can anyone tell me about Bartali (bike)?


I've got what I believe to be a 1970 Bartali bike. French threaded throughout, metric 531, love it. It's my daily rider but I haven't been able to find out much of anything about the brand or who might have built it.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham, Washington USA

2009/8/17 Mark Pounders <markpounders@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
> --
> Mark Pounders
> Richmond, Virginia
> USA