In the collection · Turin · early 1950s
Giamé
A rare Turin racer whose drilled seatpost, French derailleur and surviving maker parts show the pursuit of low weight.
The Giamé brothers
Antonio and Agostino Giamé belonged to Turin’s close framebuilding world. Collector accounts connect them with Frejus and Gios, but the sequence is not securely documented.
The former owner dated this among the earliest known Giamé bicycles. That is provenance, not a production record.
Italian bicycle, French gears
The Simplex Tour de France derailleur required feel at the lever. Earlier records name FB hubs, Nisi rims and Universal 51 brakes, with saddle, bars and seatpost attributed to Giamé.
Stories say Fausto Coppi used seatposts from the workshop. No order, photograph or catalogue confirms this here; it does not make this Coppi’s bicycle.
The parts and Turin provenance preserve a rare trace of a workshop otherwise nearly lost.