F1 Grand Prix Monza 2023 WTF you ask? Zio Lorenzo 's a two-wheeled guy, whether motorized or pedaled. But he used to like watching car racing, only bailing-out on F1 back when they made 'em race on those awful grooved &q…
Thoughts on LeTour 2023 Photo copied from here. Zio waited awhile for this post. Watching highlights on Italian TV finally got him going on it. Najlepsa hvala (many thanks) to Tadej Pogacar ! (in white above) Without him how d…
"Sherman, set the wayback machine to...." Zio generally likes what David Stanley writes for our friends at BikeRaceInfo. But THIS is pushing it: "Where does that leave us with Jonas Vingegaard? He keeps passing…
Museo Agusta As regular blog readers know Zio Lorenzo 's a fan of most things on two wheels. Back-in-the-day he had a sponsor for his brief Superbike roadracing effort, a guy maybe as crazy about Italian motos as he was...bu…
Brooklyn 50 Years On One of our favorite events in recent years has been the GIOS Raduno. Lovers of the blue bicycles come from all over to join together for a ride and lunch afterwards. Marco Gios and his friends do a lot of wo…
Distracted Cycling? Pro cyclist Gino Mader (above) was killed in the Tour of Switzerland recently. So far there are no real witnesses to describe what happened and the investigation continues as we type this. Crash scene photos …
Addio Antonio Antonio with El Diablo from this feature We just heard about the passing of our friend Antonio Mondonico. Zio Lorenzo first met him at the old Interbike show back when Torelli had a stand there. Son M auro (the…
"ESCAPED" Regular readers might remember we noted a new cycling website debuting a few months back? One rising from the ashes left when Outside bought up a bunch of 'em and started doing the "vulture capitalist…
RIP UGO DEROSA Another of the greats has gone. Ugo DeRosa , one of Italy's greatest framebuilders is dead at 89. Zio remembers Viterbo framebuilder Serafino Tomi telling a story from the time he worked with Cino Cinelli.…
33 Years Ago Doesn't seem all that long ago, even though it was half-a-lifetime. Our wedding anniversary was yesterday so we took a little trip to Napoli to celebrate. The view above will seem familiar to many, especially fa…
Felice Gimondi Felice Gimondi won almost everything there was to win despite racing during the same period as Eddy Merckx . We have a small connection with the great man - back when Heather first came to Italy during her colle…
A Little Help? Zio Lorenzo HATES stories like these: Guy has fancy health insurance, gets sick and despite a lot of the insanely expensive healthcare bills getting paid, faces financial ruin. WTF? Charles Pelkey's a long-t…
The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths Why other rich nations have surpassed the U.S. in protecting pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. Click here to read this NYT article. If you can't get past their…
Thanksgiving in Italy Of course nobody but Americans celebrate this in Italy, but WTF? Why not roast a stuffed turkey (or chicken in our case) and enjoy all that goes with it? Put the bird in the oven and get out the bikes! That…