#39: Remembering Roland Della Santa

The Paceline Cycling Podcast · May 9, 2019 · 1h

This week, I’m devoting the show to frame builder Roland Della Santa who passed away last weekend at the age of 72. Della Santa is most famous for helping to launch Greg LeMond into bike racing; one of the earliest shots of LeMond winning a bike race is of him wearing a Della Santa jersey astride one of the builder’s bikes.Della Santa was a builder at a crucial time of development for cycling in the U.S. He was both a builder and a racer during the era when the likes of Gary Fisher, Tom Ritchey and George Mount were ascending the ranks. It’s worth noting that he was among the very earliest…