Dario Pegoretti was an Italian bicycle framebuilder based for many years in Caldonazzo, outside the town of Trento, in the Dolomites, Italy, and then later for a few years in Verona, Italy.
10 Facts About Dario Pegoretti
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Dario Pegoretti was widely considered to be one of the great contemporary steel and aluminum bicycle framebuilders and a pioneer of lugless TIG welded frames.
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Dario Pegoretti apprenticed with master Italian framebuilder Luigino Milani, who was his father-in-law.
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Dario Pegoretti designed and built frames that were ridden by professional cyclists Miguel Indurain, Marco Pantani, Stephen Roche, Claudio Chiappucci, Mario Cipollini, and Andrea Tafi among others.
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Dario Pegoretti supplied comedian Robin Williams with bikes that the actor regularly used and particularly admired; and Williams gave them as gifts.
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Dario Pegoretti's work was highly creative, inventive, and very influenced by his deep love of music.
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Dario Pegoretti constantly combined aspects of art, craft, and creativity, of the highest order and as very few if any bicycle framebuilders ever have.
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In 2007, Dario Pegoretti was diagnosed with lymphoma but had recovered.
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On 23 August 2018 Dario Pegoretti died of heart failure at approximately 19:00 hours in Verona, Italy.
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Dario Pegoretti won the President's Choice award at the 2007 North American Handmade Bicycle Show and framebuilder of the year at the 2008 show.