Originally Posted by
shoota
Agreed on that thought process. I don't know who that is but I'm sure he was great.
Giovanni Losa. It's an open secret that his shop built the Cinelli Supercorsas from the early/middle 90s until 2008.
This is what Richard Sachs had to say on another forum -
drift -
i was at losa's shop in 1979 and sent there by
antonio columbo for reasons that had to do with
my then italophiliac (is that a word?) framebuilding
interests. gianni losa's shop was the stuff of legends,
and remided me of the scene in the man with the golden
gun when bond meets the gunsmith. the shop was like
a lab and quite unlike what i had seen elsewhere in
milan and the veneto region. in addition to showing
me everything i asked about and wanted to see done
(his way), he also showed me the room where all the
panto-ed frame parts were kept for when he made
the frames that carried other marques. in that time,
losa frames were the part time gig; his real job was
making the high(er) end frames that we though were
made cross town in cusano milanino or other villages
whose names are familiar here atmo.