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The two lives of Nino Defilippis (Rouleur 27)

The two lives of Nino Defilippis (Rouleur 27)

Published on Rouleur 33 © all rights reserved

The history of Nino Defilippis through his family’s album, photographies and notes from the past tell us the campione piemontese.

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Nino sees that Van Steenbergen and De Bruyne are colour-blind, and that Poblet is still performing his suerte. When, therefore, he sees a red kite in the distance, he rides straight at it, and straight under it.  Nino Defilippis is all in. When next Nino next looks round he sees that Poblet is too late, and that Van Steenbergen and De Bruyne are too stupid. Now when Nino looks up he realises that he’s not angry any more. He realises that his face is smiling, and that he feels happy. He’s going to win Lombardy at long, long last.”

When she sees him she waves and smiles, but she doesn’t yet know that she has consumed the person he was. She doesn’t understand that that person has ceased to exist, or that she is the most powerful being in the world. She doesn’t understand that she is everything, everywhere, every minute of every day.

words: Herbie Sykes images: Paolo Ciaberta

La storia di Nino Defilippis attraverso gli album di famiglia. Fotografie del passato che ci raccontano il campione piemontese.

 

Tommasini (Rouleur 31)

Tommasini (Rouleur 31)

PUBLISHED ON ROULEUR ISSUE 31 © all rights reserved

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“Ah, I told you! It’s no good! A proper oil can’t cost less than 12 per litre. That’s fact. You know Sting? He lives nearby – and his costs €25”

“Tommasini refers to the current crop of framebuilders abroad as cantinari, basement workers; more hobbyists than genuine artisans”

“While people are still happy to trade on fatto a mano in Italia, the sad fact is that most of them make very little, if anything, in il bel paese

words Colin O’Brien images Paolo Ciaberta

Cinelli presentation 2013

Cinelli presentation 2013

I was invited for the presentation of 2013’s products at Cinelli / reportage dalla presentazione dei prodotti 2013 in casa Cinelli

handmade bikes in Bristol

handmade bikes in Bristol

The UK handmade bicycle show 2012

Giro d’Italia official programme 2012 – Procycling

Giro d’Italia official programme 2012 – Procycling

PRESERVERS OF THE FAITH, where next fot Italy’s pride and joy? as the giro embarks on a new era, we meet a genuine corsa rosa icon and one of its greatest narrators

Article for the official programme of Giro d’Italia 2012. An interview to Zanazzi and Pastonesi, two lifetimes dedicated to the sports of cycling.

 

details: Zullo bike

details: Zullo bike

Zullo (Rouleur 27)

Zullo (Rouleur 27)

PUBLISHED ON ROULEUR ISSUE 27 © all rights reserved

Tiziano is artisan and he made bikes. Beautiful bikes. / Tiziano è artigiano e fa biciclette. Belle biciclette

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“Well that went well. Tiziano and his wife Elena are lovely people, with fascinating history and some beautiful, beautiful telai. It transpires they met in 1980, when she went to help him with a Dutch bloke who wanted to buy a bike. She was 24 and living in Italy because it always rains in Groningen, where she comes from. They fell in love and started working together. He built the frames in italian, she sold them in French, Dutch and English, and eventually TVM used them to win bike races all over Europe.”

words Herbie Sykes images Paolo Ciaberta

 

 


 

 

Giro di Padania – Rouleur annual 5

Giro di Padania – Rouleur annual 5

PUBLISHED ON ROULEUR ANNUAL 5  © all rights reserved

The first and last controversial Giro di Padania won from Ivan Basso. / Il primo e ultimo controverso Giro di Padania vinto da Ivan Basso.

      

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“In the 1950s  Gianni Brera, a hugely influential milanese sport journalist, re-invoked the ancient term “Padania”, a lost synonym for the Po valley. For Brera, staunchly pro-Coppi in the battle for post war Italian hearts and minds, Padania represented the civic, evolved north, distinct from and different to Bartali’s Tuscany and all points south.”

“When, on August 18, an outraged mayor of  Piacenza publically refused the racepassage, the national press waded in, planting the Lega firmly inside the Italian public’s collective headspace in this of all years. Five days later Paolo Ferrero, head of the Italian Communist Party, called a press conference. He drew parallels between Bossi and Mussolini, suggesting that the Lega was using sport to dupe the proletariat. Bossi had drawn his sting…”

words Herbie Sykes images Paolo Ciaberta

 

Praise for the Rouleur Annual:

“Rouleur is to bike magazines what National Geographic is to nature photography. Instead of glossy, well-lit portraits and fancy racing shots, its pages are filled with long, thoughtful photo spreads that drive deep narratives.” Wired magazine

“The finest photography of its genre” Robert Elms, BBC Radio London

“Quite simply, it makes you want to get on your bike and ride it” Kevin Braddock, Contributing Editor, British GQ

Save the Vigorelli – CogMag

Save the Vigorelli – CogMag

“training is like fighting with a gorilla, you don’t stop when you are tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired”

_____________________________________________ PUBLISHED ON COGMAG DICEMBRE 2011 © all rights reserved____________________________________

ENGISH: Starting at the famed Vigorelli velodrome in Milan and ending at the Fausto Coppi velodrome in Turin this annual event only in its fourth year is already steeped into Italian cycling tradition. Marcello Scarpa, owner of Ciclistica in Milan, is the main organizer of the event, wich over the four years has been held in early spring. This is the first road race to link the two historical velodromes through the 148 km between them. Marcello has witnessed the growth of fixed gear bicycles in recent years and is committed to preserving the track culture of the two cities.

“Here in Milan we have a real temple of track cycling, which is the Vigorelli. Indeed it’s true that in Italy during the ’50 and ’60 when you were speaking about track cycling, you were talking about the Vigorelli. The structure still exist but has unfortunately been in decay over the past 20 years”

The rules and scope of the Milano/Torino are simple: Fixed gear only, front brakes and helmet required.

The manifesto is: “training is like fighting with a gorilla, you don’t stop when you are tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired”

 

look the PDF PDF-COG Milan/Turin 

 

ITALIAN: La Milano/Torino nasce dall’idea di un gruppo di ragazzi di Milano ed il riferimento e Marcello Scarpa, del negozio Ciclistica a cui rivolgo alcune domande

Quante edizioni sono state fatte della MiTo? 

Sono state fatte 4 edizioni, dal 2008 sempre attorno a metà marzo, inizio aprile.

Com’è nata l’idea di questa corsa? 

Ad un certo punto ci siamo accorti che nell’ambito del ciclismo urbano stava aumentando il nostro livello atletico e dopo le varie gare auto organizzate dove contano orientamento e velocità sentivamo il bisogno di aggiungere altri fattori come fatica, resistenza e preparazione. A tal fine ci siamo inventati la Milano-Venezia e successivamente la Milano-Torino. E’ anche diventata l’occasione per incontrare altri ambienti più tradizionali come corridori su strada, triatleti e randonneurs.

è la prima volta che coinvolgete i due velodromi per la partenza e l’arrivo ? 

Si. La bici a scatto fisso ha fatto crescere nei giovani la cultura della pista per cui l’esigenza di avere un vero velodromo funzionante in città si è fatta sempre più forte. Qui a Milano abbiamo uno storico tempio del ciclismo su pista che è il Vigorelli (www.vigorelli.org), negli anni ’50 e ’60 quando in Italia si parlava di pista si parlava di Vigorelli, ora la struttura esiste ancora ma è dismessa da vent’anni.

avete qualche speranza che il Vigorelli rinasca per eventi ciclistici ? 

Personalmente di speranze ora ne ho poche, dopo anni di tentativi di pressione sulle amministrazioni ho maturato l’idea che sulla struttura e l’area del Vigorelli ci siano degli interessi economici troppo forti da schiacciare ogni tipo di progetto che faccia gli interessi dei cittadini. A Torino invece dopo anni sono riusciti in qualche modo ad usufruire del motovelodromo “Fausto Coppi” chiuso per per molto tempo ai ciclisti ed utilizzato solo per eventi fieristici…

quali sono le regole e qual’è il pensiero/manifesto dell’evento ? 

le regole sono semplici e sono 3: bici a scatto, freno anteriore, casco. Non abbiamo un manifesto, ma posso dirti che “ allenarsi è come combattere con un gorilla, non ti fermi quando sei stanco, ti fermi quando il gorilla è stanco “