Ravi
Richard Sachs &
Vanni Losa
LOSA
from Erba, Como
later moved to Vittuone, Milano.
framebuilder since the 60s.
Son of a clockwork builder, worked and learned under PSM "Santino", Sante Pogliaghi Milano. No complete frame jig used...
before accepting an apprentice, Losa send them to PSM for a few weeks. Worked for Bianchi under the one and only pinza d'oro Giuseppe "Pinella" de Grandi
build {officially ;-) } for nearly two decades the Cinelli SC at the end of his career, from 1990-2008. Anyhow Tomi Serafino recalls seeing Losa at Cinelli s factory already in the 80s boh
1200-1300 frames a year as max. productivty
main frame supplier to alto milanese and basso varesotto.
In Italy LOSA for:
brazed for Cicli Anselmo (since 1979 Loano, Savona Liguria), Graziano Battistini ('36-94') (ex corridore professionale), Bonfanti, Felice Branca (magniflex mechanic, had in the beginning frames by the Voltas, then Giuseppe "Pino" Pelà and last but not least LOSA, maybe there Pelà and Losa met...) Bruno Brazzo (Certosa di Pavia, PV - Lombardia), Cassani, Lucio Colzani (Merone, Como), Luigino Chiodini (former pro, comune Magenta di Milano, Lombardia), Ottavio Dazzan, Del Sante (Parma), Cicli Fartà (Bergamo), Fusar Poli, Gandolfi, Granazini, GiuPek Giuseppe Pecchenini (comune Parabiago di Milano), Paolo & Italo Guerciotti (Milano since 1954), Guarini, Lino, Pep Magni (Baggio, district of Milano), Magni Bergamo di Chiorda..., Martinelli, Milesi, Mino, Cicli Monti (Dal 1935 a Baggio, district of Milano), Oliviero Morotti (since 1975a Nembro, Bergamo, former pro at Dreher for example), Cicli Mosconi (Padova), Natalini (Viterbo, Lazio), Pavarin (since 1974 Varese), Record * S, Santa Maria (Milano since 1972), Poretti, Priori (@Cremona, Lombardia), Ravasi, Rimoldi, Stefanoni, Taldo, Terruzzi, Tunesi, Turconi, Turri, Uboldi Mario @ Baranzate MI, Cicli Zanazzi, Zapier, Zini
(and a lot of swiss bicycle stores & brands, like ICS Magni, Krapf, Coassin, Gody Schmutz, Velo-Sport Sieger by Jakob Sieger (züricher Kanton Winterthur), Weros Zürich (Werner Ott, @ Zürich-Seebach), Piero Zurino, Schneider, Schwab (züricher Kanton Winterthur)
for the beginning or the beginners =D
Richard Sachs talking on a world wide web forum 2008 about his visit to Milano 1979, seeing from Albert & Faliero Masi to Losa, various milanese framebuilders and marques.
here what he said:
) , Zoni!
: Krapf, Magni, Gody Schmutz, Weros Zürich (Werner Ott, @ Zürich-Seebach), Piero Zurino, Schneider!
Gesichts
) Los(a)isten 
, denn mein Gebaerden richtete sich zunaecht auf die Praesentation meiner neusten Losa Akquise und der Gewinnung der (Quint)Essenz, das Baujahr 
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