Campagnolo: 75 Years of Cycling Passion
Cycling History Sports Technology Italian Industrial Biography Bicycle Collecting Vintage Component Reference Corporate History Design Appreciation
VeloPress, 2008. 160 lavishly illustrated pages, 295 mm tall—this is the only officially-endorsed, large-format hardcover that charts the full 75-year arc of Campagnolo, the Italian firm whose inventions (the quick-release skewer, the parallelogram rear derailleur, the Delta brake) forever changed how the world rides. Authors Paolo Facchinetti and Guido Rubino were given access to the private company archives in Vicenza, so every chapter pairs period advertising, race-day photography, and exploded technical drawings with stories straight from Tullio Campagnolo’s letters and workshop logbooks. The result reads like a bike-builder’s biography, a Grand-Tour photo album, and a technology textbook rolled into one.
Collectors prize the book for its production values: heavyweight art-paper, colour-calibrated to match the famous “Campy” box-art blue, and sewn binding that lets the pages lie flat so you can pore over every milling mark on a 1949 Cambio Corsa or the hidden spring routing of a 1987 C-Record derailleur. Because the title went out of print within two years, clean copies—especially ones with no inscriptions, no ex-libris stamps, and pages still crisp—are increasingly scarce on the secondary market. This copy meets that standard: tight hinges, no pen marks or dog-ears, only light corner bumps and edge rubs commensurate with shelf life.
Whether you ride, restore, or simply admire the marriage of Italian design and racing heritage, owning this volume is the fastest way to bring the soul of the Giro and the smell of walnut-shaved aluminium shavings into your living room. Search terms like “Campagnolo 75th anniversary book,” “Tullio Campagnolo history hardcover,” or “vintage bicycle component photo reference” all lead here—making it both a conversational showpiece and a long-term investment for cyclists and design aficionados alike.
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