Italy indeed has a richer bicycle history than Belgium or the Netherlands in the field of frame building, but there used to be a lot of small bicycle repair shops, not as is now the case with globalization with mainly multinationals such as Trek, Specialized, Giant,\u2026<\/p>\n
Every village used to have a bicycle maker that bought its steel tubes and lugs and marketed the bicycle under its own name. In the early 1970s there was a hype to ride Italian bicycles, they were more aesthetic, more beautiful and more attractive. Made in Italy has always been an important trademark.<\/p>\n
Some bicycle makers started to produce their own bicycles with an Italian name. Some brought the frames directly from Italy, placed their own decals on them, engraved them with their logo and then assembled them in their studio.<\/p>\n
The most important Belgian ones can be found below. By clicking on the name you get more info<\/p>\n
If information is missing or you still know about other Belgian bicycle makers, you can always send me an email to info@vintagefiets.be<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n You can find the most important Dutch brands in the article Dutch bicycle brands that sound very Italian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>Martelly is the bicycle brand of the Martens family and was founded in the early 1980s. The Martens family makes bicycle frames from before the Second World War. They were one of the largest Belgian frame builders and supplied, among others, the Flandria team, the Poeders Man team and built the frameworks of Michel Pollentier, Etienne De Wilde, Roger Illegems, Berten de Kimpe and Willy Vanneste, among others.<\/p>\n They have also delivered many frames to other bicycle manufacturers such as Colnero, Empella, Loverdi, Diamant, Concorde, Devos Sport and many others.<\/p>\n From 1980 they have built no less than 25,000 frames in 20 years.<\/p>\n Currently Martelly still makes custom steel bicycle frames, they use Columbus and Dedacciai tubes for this. You can also order a new custom retro bike.<\/p>\n Bicycles from Putte Kapellen, information is missing<\/p>\n Capino is the trademark of Fietsen Capino from Wevelgem. Marcel Pinnoo started his own bicycle shop in 1945, but the Capino brand was only founded in 1971 after the idea of daughter Monique and her husband Andr\u00e9 Catry. Capino comes from Ca<\/strong>try en Pino<\/strong>o<\/p>\n They have been making Capino bicycle frames for 35 years. The shop still exists and is operated by grandson Xavier Catry.<\/p>\n Bicycles with the Ampello brand were built by Ampe, a bicycle repair shop in Torhout (West Flanders). The bicycle shop has been around since 1936 and was then called Huis Alfons Ampe.<\/p>\n Ex teammate of Eddy Merckx Guido Reybrouck starts a wholesale trade in racing bikes of the brand Fangio at the end of his career. The name comes from his son Fangio. Guido is clearly a fan of Italy after his long career with the Italian cycling team Faema.<\/p>\n In 1994 he leaves everything to his son who opens Fangio bicycles in Aartrijke in West Flanders.<\/p>\n Bonaventure from Hooglede has been making custom bicycle frames for more than 90 years. Around the 1980s the racing bikes had the resounding Italian name Venturelli and nowadays Scatto. Currently, the name Venturelli is only given to regular bicycles and E-bikes.<\/p>\n Venturelli comes from the name Ventura, from the founder Bonaventure. In the late 1960s, a professional team was even sponsored, namely Etalo-Ventura in 1968 and Etalo-Siriki-Ventura<\/a> in 1969, beiden met ploegleider Jozef Braeckevelt.<\/p>\n Bicycle manufacturer Bart Verhaegen from Beauvechain (Bevekom) founded this brand in 1987, but has since stopped (when exactly is not known). Bart used Italian frames and an Italian flag is even engraved in the frame. The most famous rider who rode their bikes was Eric Vanderaerden<\/p>\n\n
Martelly<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Martelly](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Martelly-Competition-01-1280x721.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Martelly](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Martelly-Competition-02-721x1280.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Martelly](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Martelly-Competition-07-721x1280.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Colnero<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Colnero](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Colnero-fiets-01.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Colnero](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Colnero-fiets-02.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Colnero](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Colnero-fiets-03.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Colnero](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Colnero-fiets-04.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Capino<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Capino](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Capino-fiets-01.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Capino](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Capino-fiets02.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Capino](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Capino-fiets03.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Ampello<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Ampello](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ampello01.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Ampello](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ampello02.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Ampello](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ampello-06.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Fangio<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Fangio](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Fangio-fietsen-Guido-Reybrouck.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Venturelli<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Venturelli](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Venturelli-koersfiets-01.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Venturelli](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Venturelli-koersfiets-08.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Venturelli](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Venturelli-koersfiets-03.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>U-Scanini<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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