Pogliaghi
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Italy
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racing bicycle
Racing bicycle
A racing bicycle, also known as a road bike, is a bicycle designed for competitive road cycling, a sport governed by according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale...
manufacturer, based in Milan
Milan
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, Italy
Italy
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The company was founded by Sante Pogliaghi in 1947. Pogliaghi did much of the work, but had up to six staff by the late 1970s, when production increased from 300 frames a year to 800. http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/pogliaghi_serial_numbers.htm
Cyclists such as Patrick Sercu
Patrick Sercu
Patrick Sercu is a former Belgian cyclist, best known for his exploits on the tracks.In 1964 aged 19 he competed as the star attraction at the Manchester Wheelers' Club Race Meet at the Fallowfield track in Manchester.He won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.Sercu is the record...
and Eddy Merckx
Eddy Merckx
Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx , better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional cyclist. The French magazine Vélo called him "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known." The American publication, VeloNews, called him the greatest and most successful cyclist of all...
used Pogliaghi frames. Sante Pogliaghi's speciality was tandem
Tandem
Tandem is an arrangement where a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction....
bicycles.
Sante Pogliaghi died in 2000. Pogliaghi sold or transferred rights to build bicycles under his name in the 1980s. The difference between a Pogliaghi made under his direct supervision and one that was not is the *PSM* stamp on the seat-lug, and a serial number on the seat-lug or the head-lug. These stamps disappeared in the late 70's-early 80's. Marc Rossin had the rights first, and a number of Pogliaghis appeared with Rossin-style pantographing. By the 1990s, rights to the name had passed to the Basso
Basso (bicycles)
Basso bicycles is an Italian manufacturer of hand made road bicycles, founded in 1977 by the three Basso brothers, Marino, Renato and Alcide.Marino Basso was the world professional road-racing champion in 1972, winning the race in Gap, in the south of France....
brothers.