on 2014-03-15 20:13 knarf wrote
"Gruppo" is Italian for (wait for it...) "group" (Dario, feel free to correct me). In bike parlance it refers to the component group on a bike: the brakes, gears, cranks, pedals, etc. Most often they're all made by the same manufacturer and bought together in a (wait for it...) group rather than individually.
odd to refer to the gruppo on a bike without brakes nor derailleurs ;?>
A Frejus track bike (designed for a velodrome, no brakes or gears) with Campy Pista (means "track" in Italian) components is a very rare and desirable bike.
which makes it worthy as wall art, also track bikes have fewer components from which to drip road juice onto the carpet; my bikes are only clean enough to hang on a wall every year or two, and they aren't pretty enough anyway
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