Originally Posted by
Citoyen du Monde
Mike I know that you want to add something useful but please don't name drop if you are not fully aware of the people who you are writing about. A few of the names listed never built anything (Montelatici for one, but likely two others too), they were simply nameplates for a shop. Others were not persons but rather multiple generations of a family or multi-person teams (Picchio, Marnati, Grandis, Chesini, Sannino). Others were apprentices who developed their trade under real master whose shadow they never surpassed (Freschi under Brambilla and Pogliaghi). Marinoni did not emigrate as a framebuilder. Pegoretti is not a one man show...
CdM, sorry about that. I just wanted to name a bunch of guys that most cyclists probably have never heard of to give an example of how many there were once. But I must ask, I know that Marinoni came to Canada as a racer but didīnt he have some framebuilding experience that he brought with him from Italy?
And the last I heard of Pegoretti he was sick with cancer and hardly built anything at all but here on the forum I find out that he produces some 400 frames/year, that is interesting. Well, then I agree with you that he certainly isīnt a one man show.