Giovanni Pinarello died in Treviso on Thursday evening at the age of 92. A professional for six seasons in the post-war period, Pinarello’s most indelible contribution to cycling was the establishment ...

GIOVANNI PINARELLO, who has died aged 92, was an Italian cyclist whose lack of distinction on the post-war circuit was the catalyst that caused him to create a brand of bicycles that sped to success ...

The story of Italian racing-bike maker Pinarello began with defeat and humiliation for the company’s founder. In 1951, Giovanni Pinarello placed dead last in the Giro d’Italia, one-third of the Grand ...

The year was 1975. Fausto Bertoglio was racing the Giro d’Italia with the Jollj Ceramica team on a Pinarello bicycle. In the end, it would be the 26-year-old Italian’s first and only Grand Tour win.

Giovanni Pinarello, widely known as Nani, and as the grandfather of Italian cycle racing, founded the globally successful Pinarello company which built the bikes that carried Bradley Wiggins and Chris ...

Giovanni Pinarello first opened a bike factory in 1952 in Treviso, where Pinarello is still based, and success in the racing world soon followed. In 1960 Guido de Rosso rode a Pinarello to victory in ...

Cicli Pinarello was founded in 1953 by the former professional cyclist Giovanni Pinarello, who used money he received for giving up his spot in the Giro d’Italia race to start his business. Pinarello ...

Germany's Markus Eichler has picked up where Giovanni Pinarello has left off by winning the Giro d'Italia's title for lowest placed rider in the general classification – this year noted by the numero ...

The year was 1975. Fausto Bertoglio was racing the Giro d’Italia with the Jollj Ceramica team on a Pinarello bicycle. In the end, it would be the 26-year-old Italian’s first and only Grand Tour win.