Originally Posted by
Kevindale
Thank you for this info, Rory. It adds crucial context to my sometimes obsessive research on IDing and dating Tommasinis (which I know is somewhat of a fool's errand, but that's part of the appeal). I look forward to hearing/reading your recently completed interview with Irio Tommasini, and I hope you are able to spend lots of time in the Tommasini 'reading room.' And please please (if it's OK with Signore Tommasini!) post photos/scans of some of those articles!! I would love to know more about not just the build philosophy and technique of Irio, but also the racing history of his bikes. And really just about anything about Tommasinis.
No problem. A recent move back home has given me a bit more late-night time to hopefully become more active here. Unfortunately, I'm a bit obsessive about my translations and subtitles for any quick video-editing! That said, I do have an article I'm translating that Irio was quite proud of. The 30-some year old issue of La Bicicletta was sitting on the table at his house along with some photos of Pela curated for the Masi book. I used my "scanning" method of high res photos of the pages followed by some photoshopping to get a nice three-pager that I'm in the process of translating and will repost here soon. I pinch myself sometimes knowing that my meagre language skills have gotten me close to many heroes of my adolescence!