Wow --- he battled with cancer earlier from what I understood.

I was told my Pinarello Opera frameset was contracted out to the Pegoretti shop -- (the Opera was the last steel frameset and the reasoning told to me was Pinarello was concentrating on alloy, scandium and carbon frames at the time so farmed out the welding of the Opera frameset - time frame early to mid '00 s )

Now I am stepping up my research a bit to either confirm or deny this as I am curious, but information is pretty scarce on these