QUICK RELEASE:
Pino International, Ltd. (Pino Morroni) - curved handle quick release mechanisms - first edition marked "PINO INT’ LTD. DETROIT" on their end caps - aluminum alloy end caps and knurled adjusters with nylon screw fittings - titanium skewer rods ... [These oft sought and genuinely uncommon QRs debuted in limited numbers to the general cycling populace back in 1975. However, other innovative products from fertile mind of Pino Moronni had previously graced some of the finest competition bicycles of that era as ridden by such period standouts as Mike Neel (...three U.S. National Championships and the first U.S. rider to successfully compete as a professional in the European peloton), Wayne Stetina (...U.S. Olympic team member 1972, 1976, 1980, and ten times U.S. National Cycling Champion), and the incomparable Eddy Merckx (...an astounding 525 career victories as a professional, one Amateur World Championship, three professional World Championships, and eleven Grand Tour victories including five Tour de France wins), whose 1973 world-hour-record breaking Colnago incorporated several of Pino Moronni’s hand crafted components.]
