Italy indeed has a richer bicycle history than Belgium or the Netherlands in the field of frame building, but in the past there were also many small bicycle repair shops who put together their own frames. Every village used to have a bicycle repair shop that bought its steel tubes and lugs and marketed the bicycle under its own name.<\/p>\n
Already in the 50s there were bicycle makers from Netherlands and Belgium who chose Italian names as bicycle brands, but the real boom only came from the 70s. Back then it was a real fashion phenomenon to ride Italian bicycles, they were more beautiful, attractive and there was a high demand for them.<\/p>\n
Some bicycle repairers got the idea to make bicycles with an Italian name to boost sales. Some even went as far as to buy the frames in Italy, put their own decals on them, engraved them with their logo and finally put them together in their office.<\/p>\n
The most important Dutch bicycle repair shops of that time can be found below. By clicking on the name you get more info.<\/p>\n
You can find the most important Belgian bicycle repairers in the article Belgium bicycle brands that sound very Italian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n If you know more brands, please send an email to desaevergunther@yahoo.com<\/p>\n Cicli Cornelo was het merk van Henk Kokke Sport uit St. Willebrord, opgericht in 1972 en helaas failliet verklaard in 2011. Henk Kokke ging begin jaren 70 veel naar Itali\u00eb waar hij in contact kwam met Ernesto Colnago. Hij bracht enkele fietskaders mee waarvoor 1 voor zijn zoon Corn\u00e9 bestemd was.<\/p>\n The frames were quite successful and that is why Henk decided to order even more frames. The assembly was then done in his office in the Netherlands and they were sold under the Cornelo brand, which referred to Corn\u00e9 his son and also looked very much like Colnago and could lead to confusion.<\/p>\n Cornelo also bought frames from Eddy Martens from Belgium (Martelly)<\/p>\n Bicycles built by former cyclist Jacques van de Klundert from Hoogerheide. After his career he started constructing frames in a shed at his house, but after a while his business started to run smoothly because many bicycle repair shops in the area stopped their activities. Adrie van der Poel rode a Sirocco bicycle.<\/p>\n At the time, Jacques van de Klundert drove for the Televizier team of Kees Pellenaars and as a professional cyclist he only won once, namely in 1962 in the Tour of Terneuzen.<\/p>\n His shop still exists and you can see one of his vintage jerseys from the Televizier team hanging behind the counter, more info on www.sirocco.nl<\/a><\/p>\n Bicycles built by LO<\/strong>uis V<\/strong>an DI<\/strong>jk from Breda, he also bought frames from Eddy Martens (Martelly)<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Cicli Cornelo<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Cornelo](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cornelo-koersfiets-03.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Cornelo](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cornelo-koersfiets-01.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Cornelo](\"http:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cornelo-koersfiets-02.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Cicli](\"https:\/\/www.vintagefiets.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cicli-Cornelo-scaled.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Sirocco<\/strong><\/h3>\n
<\/a>Loverdi<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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