BICICLETTE D'EPOCA GOES INTERNATIONAL! For more than 10 years, ‘Biciclette d'Epoca’ has been the reference magazine for cycling enthusiasts and vintage bicycles in Italy. We can finally offer you the English version: 112 pages and full color! This is an exciting step for us, and allows us to share our passion with many enthusiasts all over the world, where we know there is a small but very lively community eager to deepen their knowledge of the history of the velocipede and cycling. Biciclette d'Epoca covers everything from the very beginning, when Karl Von Drais invented the Laufmaschine - the running machine - at the beginning of the 19th century (later named Draisine ) which then evolved over the decades into the bicycle as we know it today. In our pages you'll find bicycles and stories from every era, written in collaboration with experts and associations in the field (such as AVI, NUVI, RSC and the prestigious English VCC); historical passages about famous people and lesser-known anecdotes that we'll track down; tutorials to learn about restoration; interviews, routes, important events and the world of vintage cycling events starting with Eroica. We will be ready with a new issue every three months (January, April, July, October), inviting you as always to cycle together on the roads of history. All this - and much more - is Biciclette d'Epoca issue 72. IN THIS ISSUE TODAY AS YESTERDAY Eroica News 2 - Giro d'Italia d'Epoca 4 - Associazione Italiana Velocipedi 6 - Nova Unione Velocipedistica Italiana 7 - Registro Storico Cicli 8 - Veteran-Cycle Club 9 PORTRAITS Osvaldo Casanova 10 ROUTES La Sfacciata 16 - Via dei Carraresi 20 Cover Story: The 200th anniversary of the Stelvio 24 BICYCLES Michaux 1868 32 - Legnano Roma 1939 and 1940 40 - Umberto Dei A1 1914 48 - Tutorial: Cycles Teddy BSA 1906 54 - BSA Airborne '42 58 - Bianchi Pista Reparto Corse '39 64 - Serena Corsa 1981 69 - Bridgestone Blouson BN 260 1987 74 - RbE: Peugeot PY 10 P Course 1977 78 PEOPLE AND CHAMPIONS Runaway Words: The Horses of Stelvio 84 - Roberto Poggiali 86 - Freddy Maertens 92 - The Valcuvia Musketeers 98 - Barcelona silver 102 VELOCULTURE Books 104 - Free yourself from your chains! 106 DON'T MISS THIS COLLECTIBLE ISSUE!