Let me say a huge-huge-huge grazie mille to LORENZO TAXIS, Chief Marketing and Communication CAMPAGNOLO. Two days before the race, by changing the wheels I noticed that the bolt of the rear brake shoe was damaged. Racing in this condition was a risk, pushing hard on all the downhills the next Sunday. After checking by all the shops in the valley(it is incredible, with more than 9.000 cyclists they do not stock spare-parts!) I went to the CAMPAGNOLO booth at the Expo zone. Here I met LORENZO TAXIS, I explained him my problem and as a talented mech he disassembled a rear brake from the display and gave me the new bolt. Grazie mille LORENZO and so sorry I was not on the podium! Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
«Le soir même, un peu effondrés avec Guimard, nous avons alors imaginé notre va-tout. Le profil de l’étape qui partait le lendemain, entre Val Gardena et Arabba, offrait éventuellement une possibilité. Quelques cols se profilaient, Campolongo, Pordoi, Sella, Gardena et retour par le Campolongo. J’etais impatient de tout miser sur une seule attaque. Et le lendemain, exactement à l’endroit prévu, à 55 kilomètres du but, je suis parti seul dans le froid et la brume, que je détestais tant…» LAURENT FIGNON – Nous étions jeunes et insouciants – Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle 2009.
Co-owner of the FESTKA bicycle company, 10 times Czech National champion on the road and track, winner of the 1998 edition of the Junior Peace Race, MICHAEL MOURECEK wears the Bronze medal he won in the Team Pursuit at the 1998 Junior Track World Championships in Cuba. Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
“You won’t find many people who share all our interests from cycling to design to architecture, but we are lucky to say that Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis is one of them. He wrote an exclusive article about Josef Bayer for the third number of the Pedal Project magazine. Are you asking why an Italian is writing an article about a forgotten producer of carbon rims from Moravia? Antonello, whom we have met through our various activities in 2010, is just like that. Our conceptual harmony was obvious right after our first meeting in Café Louvre, where this energetic design and cycling expert likes to take a break. Antonello grew up in the small village of Cornaiano near Bolzano, Italy in a unique house that the legendary Carlo Scarpa built for his father, an important producer of design and furniture, in the seventies. This might be the cause for Antonello’s natural fascination with art and design. Antonello studied architecture in Venice but bicycles got into his life eventually. A big fan of cycling, close to Antonio Colombo and Cinelli and a blogger on his aerodinamica website, he is ignited for all good things. Now he lives in Zurich as a Cinelli distributor and consultant for some famous Italian furniture brands. Beside of that he continues to conquer his own limits in cycling. From time to time you can meet him in Prague, a favorite city of his since the nineties, where he supervises the production of his own brand of scarves and caps, Superleggero, which you can buy on his website, but also to see us or Mr. Bayer, with whom he is planning great things for the future. We have lots to look forward to.”
The ZURICH SIX DAYS starts tomorrow at the Hallenstadion. Wish to URS, MAX and UELI all the best. In the picture URS FREULER always first. Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
ROBERTO aka BIERBOB at the Zurich Hauptbahnhof with his Cinelli Mash proudly showing his fresh copy of the Cinelli book The Art and Design of the Bicycle. Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
