Umberto Marnati
born in Bareggio, outskirts of Milan, moved to Milano
father of Daniele Marnati
immediately after WW2 went to work for Legnano with the certificate of “mechanical toolmaker”
He soon revealed himself to be a skilful framebuilder and mechanic, forming with Umberto “Lupo” Mascheroni a close-knit de facto team that followed the green-olive formation led on the flagship by the “holy man” Eberardo Pavesi, known to everyone as the “avocatt” (advocate - Anwalt - avvocato) because of his smooth talker between one pull on a pipe and the next. Milanese dialect was the official language of the Legnano flagship. And the two, “Berto” (but Umberto Mascheroni, a native of Cusano Milanino, was known to everyone as “Lupo” because of his unquenchable appetite, let's call it hunger, disguised by an almost appetite-starving thinness, a legacy of wartime) often accompanied the tricolour formations of the national team led by Alfredo Binda at the Tour de France and the World Championships. After Legnano, Umberto Marnati worked for Bianchi and Salvarani, in the meantime opening his own business in Via Delfico, Milan. At the beginning of the 1970s, his son Daniele joined him in the workshop, who had been around bicycles since childhood, even though his attempted racing career, which lasted little more than six years, led him to devote himself full-time, without many regrets for the meagre results he achieved as a pedallist, to practising as a bicycle mechanic and framebuilder.
1972
drillium & frame panto
owner
- Detroit Michigan 
