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The idea of the trip was pretty much to grab our bikes,
our backpacks, and helmets, and to get to the beach.
You don’t ride a mountain bike on a broad, gravel or asphalt road.
You ride a mountain bike along single tracks.
You get a different feel when you’re on a bike...
the smells are different... You see different types of surfaces,
you see different places and eat different types of food.
Italy is a fantastic place and I think it has this plus:
it has different types of places, which are not too distant from one another.
You ride past a peculiar medieval village in the province of Piacenza,
and then you ride up the ridgeway of the Alta Via,
and you see these narrow, ancient paths, and roads dating back to the Romans.
The Ottone circuit is like an amusement park to me.
On these uneven roads and rocks...
loose spokes are to be expected.
And your friend here always forgets his spoke wrench
and we have to improvise the tools...
I told Leo to bring the spoke wrench! - You and your brother are jerks!
Only you and your bike can fit through a single track
and when you’re part of a group, you ride single file.
The fact that we rode different kinds of bikes was great:
I was on a bike that’s kind of “all-mountain” cross country,
so I was pedaling away.
They were on bikes that were more suited to enduro,
where it’s harder to pedal but you go downhill a little faster.
Today, I really let it rip.
With that damn bicycle chain...
And in the end,
it looked like Claudio would have ended up on foot!
But if I hadn’t brought the pliers, you would have had to stop
because of that tire.
When we started going downhill, you really had some adrenalin pumping
that you couldn’t wait to unload!
I’m not a “sabbione” like my brother.
Yeah. But when you overturned yesterday, you took such a tumble!
That’s okay, those things happen... For example, Marco is terrific
but he also turned over
- two or three times... - I did not!
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