Velo Memorabilia
As a participant in the California Eroica and the Eroica Gaiole, Italophile Ron Miriello has been a collector of Italian memorable and cycling treasures. Vintage steel Italian bicycles, Campagnolo parts, Detto Pietro shoes, Cinelli bars, wool jerseys with great typography are treated as art and revered as part of Miriello Velo Memorablia.
Velo Memorabilia
Collecting doesn’t benefit much from over-analysis. There’s usually a reason why one is attracted to the odd and unexplained. And it’s often a reason best left undisturbed and unchallenged. Miriello maintains a collection of several Italian steel classic bicycles imported to California from Italy and rebuilt to original condition. Many frames are signed by the original artisan makers, those that are still alive.
Bicycle head tube badges, photographed by Nick Nacca.
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60th Tuscany Tour jersey
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Massimo Faggin, Radda in Chianti
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1939 Adler, Germany
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1939 Adler, Germany
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Darren Crisp, framemaker CastelFiorentino
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Simone D'Urbino, Milano
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Poretti detail
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Wood sole cycling shoes
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Stelbel Integrale / Rodano, Italy
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Giuseppe Drali, Milano
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Simone D'Urbino Milano
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Barbara Tommasini, Grosetto
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Giancarlo Brocci, Gaiole in Chianti
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Eugenio Simoncini, Gambassi Terme
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Viner track
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Master Joe Bell with a Rigi Corte
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Headtube badges
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Sig. Drali, in his Milano bottega