Fausto Coppi Appreciation / Owners Club

finally got round to clean pics
love this ride, its everything i ever wanted for distance, look at the 3 grand crabon bikes out there and just go nah mate, rather be on this. last addition was the cinelli bar stem combo, much loved by old gits in the 80s, for a reason, they are so comfortable.its only got another couple of years until respray. no idea where to get a paint job like these done,
better move to Italy

So there is my nearly final form of road bike. Started as Batavus with 600 tricolor, due to size swapped frame to Coppi. Later on upgraded to nearly full 6600 with 6400 cranks and seatpost still remaining. DA stem, King cage and fulcrum s4 wheels with schwalbe one tires. Total cost with parts sold about 530 euros. For that money I think I could not done better.

More here: http://www.pedalroom.com/bike/fausto-coppi-20181

It is indeed Italian threaded.

I've just spotted this on Bradley Wiggins Instagram account. His belonged to Bugno:

instagram.com/p/qO2NIjzL7R/?take­n-by=bradwiggins

That's interesting. If that is supposed to be Gianni Bugno's old frame and Wiggins is my height 6'3" - 6'4" what is he he going to do with it? I would have thought one of Eros Poli's old frames would be a better fit.

its only got another couple of years until respray. no idea where to get a paint job like these done,

Re-sprays are overrated, old patina has it's own effect.

I agree with the sentiment expressed on that top tube sticker, almost every frame in the peloton these days seems to be a poxy S-works.

I suspect it came up for sale and is just one for the collection rather than one to take out for a spin.

@WimVDD - are you still looking?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FAUSTO-COPPI-WHITE-ROAD-FRAME-MATCHING-FORKS-55-54cm-NOS-NEW-/261887436557?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cf9b5270d

@johnnyhotdog stopped the search (for the time being) as I couldn't resist some other nice things that crossed my path (a '94 Carrera Nivacrom and a '94 Gios Compact Pro Evolution).

Thanks anyway!

Nice choices!

@AndrewG beauty mate, real nice

I have a Fausto Coppi Laguna '53, that I want to sell, but I don't have a clue what it's value is.
Can anybody help?
http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/fietsen-en-brommers/fietsen-racefietsen/m941497749-fausto-coppi-lugano-53.html?c=8c285449651fa109c354bbabe740c1b&previousPage=lr

If you send me your name, I will make you an offer. ;-) It's made from Genius (steel) tubing and that was exactly what I was looking for. Is it 58 CT or CC? And size of toptube?

(ik praat Nederlands ;-))

Wim

Hoi Wim,

Ik praat Nederlands.
Wat betekent 58 Ctof CC?
En wat is een toptube?

Fjodor

Hey enough of this Dutch chat on here mates

This is London my friend

Here is my Fausto Coppi Gion, it was made by Giovanni Pelizzoli in 1994, when he worked at the Fausto Coppi workshop for the Ukranian Olympic team.

More picks at flickr or pedalroom

No problem, I didn't have the intention to continue in Dutch.

WIm

not finished yet, but its mostly there...

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Bellissimo!

Lovely!

I'm still trying to find information on the groupset and wheels so I emailed Mike Sweatman who runs the excellent http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Home.html blog and he has this to say:

"I am afraid that I don't know much about FiR groupsets. The very little that I know about FiR derailleurs goes like this:

(i) I have never seen a FiR derailleur in the flesh - so am not an expert of any kind! If you ever find another please let me know.

(ii) I am not entirely sure, but I think that I have seen pictures of three different designs of FiR derailleur. These would be your top-end highly polished model, a slightly less posh road racing version that also had the distinctive adjustment screw placing of your model, and the ATB model in the pictures below.

(iii) The designs are generally unique to FiR - they did not just badge up other people's models. The ATB model is clearly derivative of a SunTour design - but it is not just a rebadged SunTour. I don't know if FiR actually manufactured the derailleurs - or got someone else to do it for them.

(iv) FiR may still exist, see http://www.fir-ruote.it. I have never managed to get a response from their email address at info@fir-route.it, but I haven't tried for a while.

(v) There was a time in the 1990s when relatively successful European niche component manufacturers (possibly like FiR and Mavic) were in a blind panic because the mainstay European 'groupset' manufacturers (like Sachs-Huret, Simplex and Campagnolo) were getting deservedly murdered by the combination of Shimano and the rise of Mountain Bikes. The European niche component manufacturers depended on bike makers using European groupsets - so they started to make groupsets themselves. These FiR groupsets would fit into that general pattern."

I still haven't found any more out about the hubs.

Went for it and upgraded crankset to 5700. Really wanted complete groupset, but new 5700 were cheaper then NOS 6600 in 170mm. Ones were for sale cheaper localy but 172,5. :(

Why bother about those 2,5 mm? I have several bikes (including a track bike) and I switch without any problem from 165 to 170, 172.5 or even 175 mm cranks. All my road bikes are ridden for rides up to 5 hrs and I have one leg 15 mm shorter than the other. So if I don't get any knee issues, nobody will. ;-)

Throw away that 5700, you can have my (used) 6600 for free.

Build this for a friend a few years ago and was stolen in Rotterdam (NL) on May 30.

If anyone happens to come across it, please let me know!

• Fausto Coppi - Reparto Corse Championissimo / Columbus Genius tubing
  
• Campagnolo Chorus: crankset w/ Velosolo 48t ring, bb, hs, seatpost and Monoplanar brakes.
  
• Campagnolo Vento 16-HPW wheels with Schwalbe Lugano tires and singlespeed conversion.
  
• Cinelli Priest bars / Cinelli XA stem
  
• DiaCompe inverted levers
  
• San Marco Regal saddle
  
• MKS pedals
  

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On my track bike I also have 165. At some point was riding 172.5 and more recently 171 sugino cranks. Sugino felt slower and I preffered to have my pedals bit higher from ground. Guess I got used to short cranks.

Will pm you about 6600. :)

Fausto coppi columbus genius

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