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Detroit Visionary!
Updated 1o.30.2011

Pino Morroni with one of the Pi-Behr titanium bikes,
brazed with lugs of titanium with magnesium parts...

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hotos courtesy of Mr. Moroni

Long before aftermarket lightweight gadgetry was readily available, Pino Moroni was working on innovative ways to lighten and improve bicycles. He is pictured above with his lugged and brazed Titanium track bike, the only such bike in existence! In cooperation with Cecil Behringer, he devised a special "silver solder" type method to join the temperamental titanium tubes!

Pino Moronni passed away in 1999.
His innovative mind and resourcefulness will be remembered and missed in the
world of sport bicycling.

Pino holding rider beginning test
of his complete bike with Dr. Conconi.
Velodrome E.U.R. Roma

A project that Pino was peripherally involved in... no sooner constructed than to be outlawed by the UCI.

"Pino was present at the time of testing, with a bike of his own, which is the conventional track bike (red bike in top photo). That bike, which was built in the "Centro Studio" at the Olympic Velodrome, made it's way back to Detroit (Warren) where I first saw it. I used to ride it around Pino's neighborhood....This was back in 1987/88. Pino was going back to and forth to Italy, bringing frames when he
returned to the States. The track bike My 58cm road bike and a road bike in grey primer that he said was built for Sarroni were memorable" Greg Boggs

Pino watching Rossi (32 times Champion
of Italy) & stoker test his radical prototype
Tandem. (look closely at the arrangement
of tubes.)