I'm always up for a "heated discussion" - especially if it involves Italian frames! My 1979 edition of "The Custom Bicycle" has a photo on page 138 of an un-named apprentice framebuilder(?). I wonder if he's still building today and - if so - under what marque? Regardless, I seriously doubt Signore Pogliaghi would have allowed anything to go out the door that didn't conform to his rigorous standards. I've never heard any negative comments associated with Pogliaghi frames, although I can't honestly say the same thing about another very famous brand that starts with a "C" and has a club (the playing card variety) as a head badge. (No slur intended as my wife owns one and her's is truly a very fine bike.) Hint: I'm NOT talking about Cinelli or Ciocc! It is presently raining/sleeting in south Louisiana (possible effect of "global warming" ???). Cold beer tastes good regardless of the foul weather. Steve Whitting
"The Ciocc Cat"
Prairieville, Louisiana USA
Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/
From: Marty Eison <meison01@gmail.com> Subject: [CR] Who built my Pogliaghi? To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 7:21 AM
All this discussion about Dawes and piecework etc. got me thinking (dangerous, I know). Given my Pogliaghi is either an late 1983 or early 1984 frame, who would have built it? I'm pretty sure that Sante might have walked through the shop at least once while some unknown apprentice brazed the frame but that's about as far as I can stretch it. I know Freschi worked as an apprentice at Sante's shop, but who else did? In a similar vein who is the apprentice pictured in "The Custom Bicycle" photo of the Pogliaghi shop? It's winter, snowing in Texas and I'm bored, so I think we need an Italian heated discussion much like the recent Dawes one.
Marty Eison in Slushy Frisco, Texas USA where I most decidedly won't be taking my Poglaghi Pista out to the Velodrome.