I like this 1951 photograph of a young Adriano Zamboni with the proud smile familiar to cyclists everywhere. His wool jersey proclaims his is a member of the Sports Club Verona Montoriese. His bike is a Chesini with a Cambio Corsa shifting system (the two shift levers are mounted on the rear chainstay). Later in his career, Zamboni won a stage of the 1961 Giro d'Italia in which he participated 6 times.
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And then, of course, Adriano went on to invent the hockey rink icing machine that now bears his name.
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Hey Angel, Is this guy HampCo Andy Hampsten? Eddie
ReplyDeleteHey Angel, Is this guy HampCo Andy Hampsten? Eddie
ReplyDelete"Adriano went on to invent the hockey rink icing machine that now bears his name."
ReplyDeleteActually, Adriano was Frank Zamboni's distant cousin and mentor in the development of the rink icing machine, for which Frank is usually given credit.
Adriano's early efforts were failures, principally because of his dogged insistence that any icing apparatus needed to be mounted on a rear chainstay on his Chesini.
Frank's brilliant insight was to create a front chainstay and the rest, as they say, is history. ;-)