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Detroit Visionary!
Updated
11/22/2006
Pino Morroni with one of the
Pi-Behr titanium bikes, brazed with lugs of titanium with magnesium parts!
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Long before aftermarket lightweight gadgetry was
readily available,
Pino Morroni 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!
All photos courtesy of
Mr. Moroni
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Pino
Moronni passed away in 1999. His innovative mind and resourcefulness will be
remembered and missed in the world of sport bicycling.
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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.) |
Pino's special bottom bracket..
Ahead of his time again! |
Pino & Cecil Behringer's
titanium fork
photos courtesy Richard Sachs
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Quick release wheel skewer
(10 photos)
photos courtesy Mark Agree
Triple nut
wheels
photos courtesy Mark Agree
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"Like an
airplane", complete with 3 green mice.
Decal set,
courtesy
Glenn Airoldi
Wayne Bingham's
Telavio bike (coming)
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