Friday, July 30, 2010
Gimondi crankset
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Professional brake system
L'amico ritrovato (su due ruote)
Passano circa 35 anni e, col solito fèisbùc ritrovo Annibale, anche lui fissato con le 2 ruote. Ci incontriamo a Milano, alla Stazione delle bici (ah, grazie Davide!), e dove se no? Ci raccontiamo in un’ora o poco più i ¾ di vita che mancavano all’appello della nostra antica amicizia liceale romana. Mi manda una “letturina estiva”, davvero gustosa. Ediciclo e Annibale non me ne vorranno, spero, ma io ve ne anticipo ugualmente qualche riga. (…)
“Sant’Ambrogio 2003, al buio delle ore zerosei, Arco della Pace: una decina di ciclisti urbani, figli di critical mass, cugini dei bike messengers, nipoti dei pistard degli anni Sessanta si trovano (tam tam passaparola mailinglist) per un ciclo-delirio di quaranta minuti nell’alba metropolitana. Nessuna regola, nessuna rete di protezione, solo una città come non l’hai mai vista, dove la conoscenza del territorio conta più della forma atletica. (…) È lei, si chiama Traccia e vi racconto la sua storia. C’era una volta una microfusione in acciaio, nata negli anni Cinquanta a Schaffhausen: la testa di una forcella, piatta, foderi da ventidue. Per una cinquantina d’anni abbandonata sugli scaffali ordinati del Vanni Losa”. (…)
Il titolo del racconto è “Le prime due bici e la Cinquecento blu” e l’autore si chiama Annibale Osti (nella foto sopra), la cui nota biografica ricorda che “vive a Milano, ha tre figli e lavora in una società di consulenza finanziaria. È impegnato in varie attività a carattere ciclistico, sociale e culturale”. Annibale, il mio vecchio amico ritrovato, verrà pubblicato presto, assieme ad altri, da Ediciclo.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Bike expo - final report
In its second year BIKE EXPO proved that its significance has considerably increased. More than 5,700 industry professionals came to the event, representing a substantial increase of 14 percent. Add to this the more than 20,000 consumers who came to BIKE EXPO during the weekend the show was open to the public. The international character also improved; close to 24 percent of trade visitors hailed from foreign countries. Overall, visitors came from a total of 55 countries; the largest delegations came from Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and the neighboring Central Eastern European countries.
Un'italiana a Monaco
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Viktor – The purist
Styled protection
Mikà-amaro
INTRO TO 3G BIKES NEW SITE COMING
Incontrato Gary Silva al Bike Expo - Met Gary Silva at the Bike Expo
Friday, July 23, 2010
Munich Bike Expo / 1
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Dalla spiaggia in centro, ma solo su una “fissa” / From the beach to town, but only on a "fixed"
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Le avventurose storie ciclistiche del rag. Masetti, da Trecenta (Rovigo)
Luigi Rossi, L’anarchico delle due ruote, Luigi Masetti: il primo ciclo viaggiatore italiano Milano-Chicago e altre imprese di fine Ottocento, Edicilo, 2008, € 14,50
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Mosquito
Mosquito Beach 236
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Lock your bike
The Italian Job - the movie
Monday, July 12, 2010
Italian Job
African fixed gear and single speed
Puntapè - Eugene Christophe
Eugene Christophe was a French cyclist born on the 22nd of January 1885 in Paris. Nicknamed “Le Vieux Gaulois” (“the old Gaul”), he won the Milan-San Remo in 1910 with a lead of several hours, finishing the race half frozen after riding in 30 cm of snow. His fame increased in the 1913 Tour de France. While leading the race he was hit by a car at the top of the “col du Tourmalet”, the impact snapping his fork. After walking for 9 miles, he found a blacksmith and repaired his fork himself in order to resume the race. In 1919 he became the first racer ever to wear the yellow jersey. He is also viewed as the inventor of the toe clip. In 1925, he sold his invention to the company Poutrait-Morin now known as Zéfal, Eugène Christophe was a Director of Poutrait-Morin until his death in 1970. His mode of transport when attending board meetings, in Aubervilliers (near Paris), was always his bicycle. Since then Zéfal has never stopped selling these legendary clips and straps.