Originally Posted by
Gary Fountain
Hi purevl,
The grey cylinder is a tyre inflator. The Italian Campionissimo, Fausto Coppi, had one on his Bianchi when he won the world championship at Lugano in 1953. As my Bianchi is of a similar vintage, I decided to set it up as a bit of a tribute to Fausto. The number is the same and the tyre inflator is in a similar position (but I have a frame pump as a back-up). Fausto's was a red cylinder but i've only seen one in real life - and I wasn't able to buy it.
That's neat, for some reason I always assumed those things made their appearance in the 80s, what's old is new again. I like the scale model as well!
Originally Posted by
Gary Fountain
...and the track bike. It's an Aussie built Beretto. Great bike to ride and everything's early 80's aero.
That Beretto is slicker than snot on a glass doorknob, I definitely have a pursuit bike fetish. However, it's not the bike I was asking about. Perhaps "burnout bar" is too much of a colloquialism to make it to your hemisphere. I was asking about the bike in front of the Beretto, the one that has its drops flipped upside down.