Cicli Rossi Jerseys
Cicli Rossi Italy is renowned for it's passionate cycling history with many long established cycle shops. These local businesses, if not running their own cycle teams and providing them with jerseys, would also be selling jerseys in their shops, invariably utilising the jerseys as advertising for their business. So it is possible this vintage Cycling Jersey, along with it's long sleeved brother, could be a treasure worn by one of the local clubs. Maybe they were bought by customers of the Rossi shops? Alternatively they could have been worn by teams sponsored by Rossi businesses. The dilemma is that there are two Rossi businesses, unconnected, that ran bicycle shops in Siena and Povolaro during that period. Research is ongoing as to which shop these jerseys are associated with. In Siena, the Rossi brothers, Eugenio, Martino and Ranieri ran a workshop as well as a shop selling bicycles from 1935 up until 1970 with Bianchi played a large part in their b