Fausto Coppi Remembered: Today, ... Even his bicycles were beautiful — from 1945 until 1955 (and again in 1958) he was the star of the Bianchi professional team, riding bikes from the oldest bike ...

Coppi: inside the legend of the campionissimo By Herbie Sykes In a stunning new book published by Rouleur, Herbie Sykes talks to Fausto Coppi's gregari - the riders that rode alongside the great ...

Bookshelf: The Giro d’Italia has, since its beginning, played host to great drama, and one of these is the story of Fausto Coppi, a heroic and tragic figure of bike racing’s Golden Age. On January 2 ...

Italy's Joe DiMaggio is a lean (5 ft. 11 in., 156 Ibs.), hawk-nosed bicycle racer named Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling's two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro ...

And this was just the beginning, as British journalist William Fotheringham recounts in his absorbing book, the first English-language biography of Il Campionissimo, “Fallen Angel: The Passion of ...

A new book by William Fotheringham, "Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi", provides the definitive English-language account of Coppi's life off and on the bike, including this excerpt for ...