Legnano (company)

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Legnano Biciclette Srl

logo
legal form Società a responsabilità limitata
founding 1902–1987 self. Company
from 1987 brand of Bianchi
Seat Legnano , Lombardy , Italy
Branch Cycles
Website www.legnanobici.com/

Legnano was an Italian bicycle and racing bike manufacturer . The company was taken over by Bianchi in 1987 , which continues to sell high-quality racing and sports bikes under the Legnano brand .

history

The Legnano company was founded in 1902 by Vittorio Rossi in the town of the same name , who began manufacturing bicycles in 1906. After the First World War, Emilio Bozzi, the owner of the Frejus and Wolsit brands , bought the company, in which the entrepreneur Franco Tosi from Legnano later participated and brought the name with him.

Motorcycles were also manufactured under the company name between 1910 and 1968. After the Second World War, Legnano was the second largest bicycle manufacturer in Italy. The wheels were known for being spray painted in a characteristic olive green.

  • Track bike on which Fausto Coppi set a world hour record (45.798 km) on the Velodromo Vigarello in Milan in 1942 .

  • Legnano bike, with which Ercole Baldini became road world champion in 1958, exhibited in the Museo del Ciclismo Madonna del Ghisallo

  • Legnano racing bike (single speed)

In 1987 the company was sold to Bianchi , including sponsorship for the cycling team around Maurizio Fondriest . Starting in 2011, Bianchi and the Esperia di Cavarzere group will be presenting a new collection under the name Legnano at Expobici in Padua , which includes the Hi-Jump mountain bike model and the Gran Premio racing bike .

successes

Alfredo Binda in Rome on August 31, 1932
Team Legano 1963

The name Legnano is closely linked to the cyclist Gino Bartali , who rode for the company's own cycling team and twice won the Tour de France with the team on a Legnano bike . Alfredo Binda became the first professional road world champion with Legnano in 1927 at the Nürburgring and in 1932 in Rome . Fausto Coppi also rode the brand's bikes for a while. In 1988 Maurizio Fondriest achieved the third world championship title in the company's history on Legnano.

Well-known cyclists on Legno bikes

A selection of the riders of the Legano cycling team (time in the Legnano team):

The company's logo, alluding to the Battle of Legnano , shows Alberto da Giussano as the victorious knight of the Lombard League who raised his sword in the air .

Web links

Commons : Legnano Wheels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Daam Van Reeth, Daniel Joseph Larson, 'The Economics of Professional Road Cycling', p. 10 (online)
  2. ^ A b Roberto Gurian: Bicycles. Classic trend visions . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2015, p. 91 .
  3. ↑ Aili McConnon and Andres McConnon: Road to Valor: Gino Bartali - Tour de France Legend and World War Two Hero. on-line
  4. ^ Roberto Gurian: Bicycles. Classic trend visions . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2015, p. 101 .
  5. ^ Legnano set to capture the market in 2011 Bianchi.com
  6. ↑ Suze Clemitson, P Is For Peloton: The AZ Of Cycling, p. 16, Bloomsbury Publishing [1]
  7. ↑ Simon Martin, Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport, IBTauris, 2011, p. 61 [2]
  8. Jump up ↑ Richard Moore and Daniel Benson, Bike !: A Tribute to the World's Greatest Racing Bicycles, Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2012 [3]
  9. ^ Roberto Gurian: Bicycles. Classic trend visions . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2015, p. 57 .