Giro di Italia 2009:some beatiful pictures of the TT in Rome, by Domenico Savi, an Italian professional photographer.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Giro di Italia 2009: TT in Rome
Giro di Italia 2009:some beatiful pictures of the TT in Rome, by Domenico Savi, an Italian professional photographer.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Mario Vicini aka Gaibera
Often I am asked the question: who is behind the SAB brand? Answer: Mario Vicini, the owner of a company born in 1990 in San Marino, Italy for the creation and production of road racing bicycles aimed at the mass production as well as at customized products. Over two decades the company has developed the distribution of its products through a sales network of appointed agents and retailers in Italy and in the world.
Mario Vicini indeed has been in the industry for much longer than 20 years since he has continued the business of bicycle manufacturer started by his father, Mario Vicini Senior, aka Gaibera, at the end of long career as professional road racer at international level in the years between 1930 - 1950
Gaibera has raced with some of the best racers of all the time, from Gino Bartali to Fausto Coppi, during some of the most epic years of the Italian cycling history. He was a strong climber and a fearless descender. The second place at the 1937 Tour de France is probably the best result of his career. Mario Vicini was without team, since for a series of circumstances he had signed up as private racer financing his trip to France by selling two gold medals won before becoming pro. In the same race he even worn, for a day, the prestigious yellow jersey.
Mario Vicini Sr has also won the Italian Championship in 1938, worn the Pink jersey in one of the several edition of Giro di Italia that he raced and won several other prestigious competitions as Giro del Lazio. He was still in his 20s, in prime shape, when the Second World War started and, indeed, it jeopardized the rest of his career. In 1946 he opened his first bicycle store that he would transform in a successful business over the years. He raced until 1952 when almost 40 but then he must have kept riding because in 1973, at 60, he won the Master World Title.
Mario Vicini aka Gaibera kept working with his kids on the family bicycle business until 1995, when he passed away in Cesena, his hometown.
Many thanks to Mario Vicini Jr for kindly allowing the publication of his father's pictures.
Biographical information:
Wikepedia, Comune di Cesena
Mario Vicini indeed has been in the industry for much longer than 20 years since he has continued the business of bicycle manufacturer started by his father, Mario Vicini Senior, aka Gaibera, at the end of long career as professional road racer at international level in the years between 1930 - 1950
Gaibera has raced with some of the best racers of all the time, from Gino Bartali to Fausto Coppi, during some of the most epic years of the Italian cycling history. He was a strong climber and a fearless descender. The second place at the 1937 Tour de France is probably the best result of his career. Mario Vicini was without team, since for a series of circumstances he had signed up as private racer financing his trip to France by selling two gold medals won before becoming pro. In the same race he even worn, for a day, the prestigious yellow jersey.
Mario Vicini Sr has also won the Italian Championship in 1938, worn the Pink jersey in one of the several edition of Giro di Italia that he raced and won several other prestigious competitions as Giro del Lazio. He was still in his 20s, in prime shape, when the Second World War started and, indeed, it jeopardized the rest of his career. In 1946 he opened his first bicycle store that he would transform in a successful business over the years. He raced until 1952 when almost 40 but then he must have kept riding because in 1973, at 60, he won the Master World Title.
Mario Vicini aka Gaibera kept working with his kids on the family bicycle business until 1995, when he passed away in Cesena, his hometown.
Many thanks to Mario Vicini Jr for kindly allowing the publication of his father's pictures.
Biographical information:
Wikepedia, Comune di Cesena
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Coppi sullo Stelvio: una pagina di ciclismo indimenticabile
Giancarlo Pavoni, owner of the Il Canneto Restaurant finally on camera for one of his epic Mario Ferretti's radio race reports. Giancarlo is very well known in the local cycling community, if not for his past as race organizer and team manager, surely for his famous homemade pasta: egg noodles, ravioli and cannelloni. Avid fan of soccer beside professional cycling, he is able to remember race results and old stories better than anybody else. His passion for the sport is clear right from the moment you step in the restaurant with an entire wall covered of shirts, pics and autographs of champions from Bartali to De Luca. And should you still be in doubt about the appearance, please have a short conversation with one of his daughters Monica or Paola, or with one of his long time waiters.
Italian translation:
Giancarlo Pavoni, proprietario del Ristorante Il Canneto (Roma, Italia) e Presidente della storica squadra GS Grottaferrata, finalmente ripreso in una delle sue epiche radiocronache di Mario Ferretti. Giancarlo e' tra le persone piu' conosciute nell'ambiente ciclistico laziale, se non per il suo passato di organizzatore di gare e di dirigente sportivo, sicuramente per il famoso trittico di fettuccine - agnolotti - cannelloni. Appassionatissimo di calcio oltre che di ciclismo e' capace di ricordare risultati ed aneddoti come nessun altro sarebbe in grado. Il suo fervore per lo sport risulta chiaro sin da quando si accede nel ristorante con una parete intera coperta da magliette, foto ed autografi di campioni da Bartali a De Luca. E se ancora ci fosse qualche dubbio a riguardo dell'apparenza, e' sufficiente farsi una chiacchierata con le figlie Monica e Paola o con i suoi camerieri di sempre.
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