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Sempre in Giro

Granfondo

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“Io Sfido la Capra”

Treviso – martedì 1 febbraio 2010 – Inizia ufficialmente la marcia di avvicinamento alla nuova edizione de laPinarello cycling marathon, in programma il prossimo 17 luglio. Il motto scelto per l’edizione 2011 sarà “io sfido la capra”: il riferimento è ovviamente alla ripidissima ascesa al Monte Grappa, dal versante di Fietta-Possagno, meglio conosciuta in loco come il “salto della capra” che lo scorso anno, a causa del nubifragio abbattutosi durante la notte, non è stata affrontata dai 3.000 coraggiosi radunatisi in Piazza dei Signori.

Save the date : Sunday July 17th , 2011 The day when Monte Grappa will again open its roads to gf riders. The day when only the bravest will challenge the “salto della capra”. The day when you wait to start the 2nd edition of laPinarello cycling marathon.

Sources – Ciclo News , Official Website


Bike Love

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“Bicycling Pair”

A poster created for Art Crank Minneapolis – a poster show for people who love biking.

And Forking.

Source – Artcrank 2010


Pedal While You Work

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“Working Bike”

Christophe Machet a swiss designer comes up with an utilitarian concept: A bike to move goods.

Source – Christophe Machet.


Bike Future

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“Lateral Challenged”

Sembra una sogliola ma è la bici del futuro secondo il designer Yuji Fujimura.
Ha un motore elettrico ma si possono usare anche i pedali per ricaricare le batterie agli ioni di litio.

Ad essere bella è bella, ma Fujimura evidentemente non sa cosa sia il vento laterale…


Vittorio Seghezzi

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“A memory from the past”

Source – Rory Masini.

Major Results:
1945 3a nella Maggiora (ITA)
1948 3a nella 11a tappa Tour de France, San Remo (FRA)
1948 3a nella 21a tappa Tour de France, Paris (FRA)
1949 3a nella Tre Valli Varesine (ITA)
1949 3a nella 12a tappa Giro d’Italia, Modena (ITA)
1949 3a nella 15a tappa Giro d’Italia, San Remo (ITA)
1952 3a nella Bordighera (ITA)
1955 2a nella 3a tappa Ronde van Nederland, Nunspeet (NED)
1956 3a nella Dénain (FRA)

Vittorio Seghezzi 27 May 1924 -25 October 2019 (95)
Born: Castelletto Ticino, Italy


Lycra Free Zone

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“What is the history of biking”

In the 1860s the term bicycle was introduced. By the early 1890s, bicycling had caught on. Bicycles were safer, pneumatic (air-filled) tires made bicycles faster, and more than 150,000 bicycles had been sold in the United States alone. The improvement in speed naturally sparked road races, and thus long- and short-distance races sprouted up all over Europe and the United States (the Michelin Company sponsored a 260-mile race from Paris to its headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand). Racetracks and cycling clubs grew in popularity (the League of American Wheelmen, still in existence and now called the League of American Bicyclists, lobbied for better roads for cyclists and automobiles), and by the end of the 1800s, bicycling was common as a method for recreation and commuting to work. By the 1890s, there were more than 25 bicycle manufacturers alone in Chicago, including the newcomer, Arnold, Schwinn and Company.

Source – medicinet.com.


Apple Bike Computer

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“An Apple Bike a Day Keeps You Ticking”

The Apple Smart Bike will allow cyclists to communicate electronically with one and other, while sharing a multitude of items like speed, distance, time, altitude, include, decline, power, heart rate, cadence, derailleur settings and much more.

In order to use the the Apple Smart Bike, you must have a iPhone or iPod Touch.

Source – BikeReviews.com.


Gavia Warrior: Andy Hampsten

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“5 June, 1988 – The Day the Strong Men Cried”

The Gavia Pass stage of the 1988 Giro not only proved to be the pivotal day
of the entire race, but the sheer brutality of the conditions the racers
faced made this one of the truly classic days in history of professional
cycling. The great Italian cyclist and former winner of the Giro, *Francesco
Moser* put the whole affair into perspective, “I have seen stages where it
finished on a climb in conditions like this, but never with such a descent.”
One must remember that in 1988, the Gavia Pass was still largely a dirt road
on the south side, which the riders ascended, and the first 3 miles on the
descent were also dirt! However, all things change and this year, the
last of the dirt was finally paved. They key player in this whole drama
and the winner of the 1988 Giro, Andy Hampsten, finally returned to the
Gavia Pass this summer. Andy has never given a full account of the epic
climb and descent, and it is almost ironic that on the day he rode back up
and over the Gavia to tell the tale, there was a record setting heat wave
in Northern Italy. Your intrepid reporter accompanied Andy over the pass
on their bikes, attempting to record every comment between gasping for breath
and hoping that Andy’s legs would somehow fail him, something that clearly
did not happen on that fateful day 10 years ago.

Source – Bicycling.com.


Guy Lapébie

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“Cycling Pioneer”

An early cycling legend completes his last race.
French cyclist Guy Lapebie, a double Olympic champion from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, died on Monday at the age of 93, his family confirmed.
Lapebie had been ill since November and died in hospital at Saint-Gaudens in southwest France.

Source – VeloNews


Wired

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“High Wire Act”

Kolelinia is a city fly attempt. We are born to move, this makes us alive. The transport is not only a transport, it has to be an experience! The quality of this process reflects directly on the quality of our life. Is it possible to achieve a completely new level of transportation with minimum resources?
Kolelinia is a concept for riding our own bikes on a steel wire, a new type of bicycle-lanes…

Source – kolelinia


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