Race
5VALLI ELIMINATOR
October is one of our favorite months of the year, days are still warm, colors changes and the horrible summer heat, mosquitos, and f***ing tafani are just memories. With a small group of old and new friends from the Rupex club in Bologna we decided to celebrate the arrival of autumn on MTB and gravel, … Read more5VALLI ELIMINATOR
AMR2020 SETUP
“There is no good and bad weather, only good and bad equipment” this remarkable phrase from Robert Baden-Powell is surely true but in bike-packing, you have to cover also another topic regarding the weight and the space this good equipment take on your bike… If you have to carry your stuff during a 5 days … Read moreAMR2020 SETUP
AMR2020
In the last days due to the lock-down, I got the chance to read back the diagram of the 5 days we took to finish the Atlas Mountain Race in February 2020. An anonymous cartesian diagram resuming elevation, time of movement, velocity, and time of sleep. A fil rouge, a sequence of peaks and minimums, … Read moreAMR2020
TCR 5
The standard route is 4000 kilometers to complete in 15 days, passing 14 countries with 4 checkpoints. In this case, I wouldn’t be able to follow Andrea in any way or circumstancebecause that is one of the obvious rules of an solo unsupported bike race. So we decided to draw two different routes. Andrea would be trying … Read moreTCR 5