Pogliaghi
 

Hello out there, I just joined this forum and am posting my first 'thread' I have recently bought a blank frame with the name Pogliaghi on it. Upon doing some research, I learned that this could be quite the bike. On the rear dropout, it says Campagnolo in tiny letters. I would put the bike sometime in the early nineties if I had to guess, and it is full shimano600. Does anyone know anything about this type of bike...approximate value, age?

Around here, a picture says waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than a thousand words...post a pic. Or, a whole bunch of pics if you want. :)

I recall Pogliaghis in the 80's as a high end, Italian bike.

sante pogliaghi was a master builder. you can find more information on him and his bikes on classicrendezvous.com (link ), or by searching these forums.

i have a pogliaghi track bike from 1976, and love it to pieces.

on that link that i posted, you can match the serial number of your bike to an approximate year.

and before that, they were even better. production jumped significantly in the late 70s, and Sante Pogliaghi himself had less to do with the building, if i recall correctly.

some bikes from the 60s and 70s have "PSM" stamped somewhere near the serial number - on the seatcluster lug, headtube, or perhaps somewhere else. i've heard rumor that this indicates that the bike was built by Sante. I haven't found confirmation of this.

This is the first of approximately 61,400 hits from a Google search on the name: http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Ita...iaghi_main.htm

Great stuff, technology. :rolleyes:

What you REALLY should do is post in Classic and Vintage. We're far more interested and knowledgeable about "what's this bike?" questions, there.

Anyway, Sante Pogliaghi is considered one of the best Italian framebuilders. Many professionals from cycling's "golden age" rode his frames, often re-badged as other brands. Up until the 1970's, Pogliaghi was producing about 300 or so frames a year. Production increased in the late 70's and Sante himself stopped making frames sometime in the late 1970's, when Marc Rossin (yes, THAT Rossin) ran his shop. This continued until the early 1980's. During this time, his shop produced VERY high-quality frames that may not have been created by the master himself, but still bear an unmistakeable quality. The Pogliaghi frame from the shop's origins through 1982 is notable for a jig-less construction technique--Pogliaghi preferred to tack frames in place rather than use a jig for welding. These "tacks" are detectable by running a finger inside the bottom bracket and other tubes where you can reach the tube-lug joint. Anyway, in the 1980's, the name was sold to Basso, who continued production of the Pogliaghi line for some time. Still nice bikes, but they stopped really being Pogliaghis at this time.

For more info, Google is your friend:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Ita...tomBiBook.html

Dang it you guys! I wanted to see some pics!!! Killjoys! ;)

i've seen a few 70s Pogliaghis, and a few 80s ones. the ones from the 80s have more graceful lugwork, which i gather was not Sante's main interest.

i'm fascinated by some of his much earlier frames, like this one, built thusly as an april fools' joke:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/4...d332283d7e.jpg