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Italian Legend

            The story of the Campagnolo Gran Sport begins immediately after the Second World War. It was a time when cycle racing was dominated by two Italians - Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.

Gino Bartali, a conservative man who saw himself as a skilled craftsman, loved the intricasies and complexities of Tullio Campagnolo's Heath Robinson rod-operated gear changers like the infamous Campagnolo Corsa. He used one to win the 1948 Tour de France.

Fausto Coppi, however, revelled in modernity, progress and technology - and despised Tullio's ornate contraptions. In 1949 Fausto Coppi defected from Campagnolo to Simplex, and horror of horrors, won the Tour de France. An Italian demi-god had triumphed using French equipment. Tullio Campagnolo was humiliated and mortified.

But the shock was exactly what was needed to get the, ever-cautious, Tullio off his backside and spur him to produce, in 1951, his signature Campagnolo Gran Sport derailleur. It, famously, adopted a parallelogram mechanism, and its strength and accuracy defined the way that derailleurs operate up to this very day.

Quotation, at length, from Disraeli Gears

Taken on: September 25, 2021

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Camera:	Sony ILCE-7M3
Lens:	Voigtlander NOKTON 40mm F1.2 Aspherical
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	40mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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