Vintage bicycles are like classic ... having produced heart-stealing and race-winning bikes from its Italian base since 1885. The legendary Fausto Coppi and the controversial yet much-loved ...

For decades, racing bicycle technology did not change very much. Indeed, the bicycles that Fausto Coppi was riding in the late 1950s ... carbon—replaced that old reliable cromoly steel in frames.

Italy’s Joe DiMaggio is a lean (5 ft. 11 in., 156 Ibs.), hawk-nosed bicycle racer named Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling’s two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro d ...