What's wrong with pro cycling? What are we discussing? Zio notes the frenzied speculation going on (which of course by the time you read this could be nothing) about the merger of two top pro cycling teams - Jumbo-Visma an…
EROICA turns 25 That's right, cycling's first true vintage event was started 25 years ago when Giancarlo Brocci and less than 100 others rode the first L'Eroica. Harry & Leather at "L'Eroica Gaiole 20…
Bici d'Epoca Fall is coming and (thankfully) things are cooling off a bit here in Sicily though the tourists seem as plentiful as ever. Must be the post-pandemic surge combined with the weak euro? Autumn also means vintage cy…
La Mitica 2022 Geez, almost a month with no posts!! What have we been up to? Heather has been running some academic conferences, we enjoyed a trip to the Aeolian Islands and last week we came up to Piedmont for a couple of week…
"CON LE ALI ALLE RUOTE" Zio Lorenzo 's not big on podcasts but he enjoyed this six-part series about Campagnolo * very much. He found it sort of buried on their website and then searched for the English version. To…
COPPI IN SIRACUSA Here's a photo of Fausto Coppi in Siracusa from November 1947. Who knew Il Campionissimo was here? Next to him is local guy (from Floridia , a place we ride past regularly) Gino Agliec o . There was a G…