Garage find legnano grand premio info appreciated

[redline1968]

This popped up this morning for me.. thinking it was a regular road bike by the ad I was going to pass on it the boredom set and I clicked it on..I noticed a few interesting things about it. One it is full campy bike and fine tune campy drop outs.. alarms rang and the price was low.. it appears to be untouched except tires.. not sure on rims but they are italian.. l want to hear from you experts on this one and age if you can and other info would help....the shifter is clamp has campy as are the front and rear hubs.. I know someone spent money on it back then and there are I believe some decals indication of it being raced in sf in the 60s.. thanks

 

[redline1968]

The seat looks origina

l too

 

[kccomet]

nice, I'm a sucker for chrome lugs

 

[1motime]

Interesting Seat post bolt position. Additional Set Bolt on the rear of tube also? What is the advantage? Never seen before.

 

[Vicious Cycle]

That bolt holds the cable stop for the center pull.

 

[bulldog1935]

Google Emilio Bozzi, and you will find out everything about Legnano bikes.

 

[juvela]

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frame constructed of quality plain gauge tubeset - fairly heavy with a rather dead ride

Y-pattern chainset a product of Way-Assauto

pedals appear to be Sheffield (Noli-Cattaneo) model Nr. 613

looks as though we are in the early 1960's here

hub axle locknut inner faces should express a date

great deal of marque information resides here -

condorino.com

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[bikerbluz]

I recently purchased a Legnano and it has the same saddle as yours. I think the Legnano hubs are probably pretty hard to come by. Mine has had a lot of the parts swapped out. Think mine is an early 70’s model. Yours is definitely earlier. Nice grab!

 

[bikerbluz]

An ad…..

 

[juvela]

An ad…..

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thanks very much for sharing this

suspect page dates from near to 1961-62, not especially because of any details regarding the cycle illustrated but because of the rubber stamp

postal zip codes came in in 1963 and the use of text prefixes for telephone numbers ended a few years later

suspect that this is the shop where my parents purchased my first adult bike for me around age nine or ten

it was a pre-owned Schwinn three-speed which seemed infinitely heavy and whose gears would never shift into low

too big but reckon they took the "he'll grow into it" view

felt like it rode me rather than i rode it

two or three year later received a new English 3-speed for birthday or christmas; what a big improvement, it were lighter and i were more bigger


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