Si:) Il più grande ciclista di tutti i tempi. Se non fosse stato per la seconda guerra mondiale, Coppi sarebbe ancora più grande!

Un solo uomo al comando
La sua maglia e' biancoceleste
Il suo nome e' Fausto Coppi

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When riding a Bianchi a waterbottle is necessary and with the color Celeste of course.

Contradictory myths say Celeste is the colour of the Milan sky, the eye colour of a former queen of Italy for whom Edoardo Bianchi made a bicycle (the crowned eagle of the company logo is an adaptation of the former royal crest) and that it was a mixture of surplus military paint. The shade has changed over the years, sometimes more blue, then more green.

My bike came with that colored water bottle as well:)

I think the gear shifts are Campagnolo since the derailleurs are Campagnolo Silver Vintage 10sp.

Acually my Bianchi from around the early 90's (low budget) has Simplex derailleurs with Simplex gear shifts.

When to come think about it, my bike could probably qualify to do the L'Eroica.
Seems that the only thing I has to do is to change my saddle to a leather saddle.
L'Eroica, here I come. Chianti wine will probably ease my pain after the race on gravel roads:)

I see a Simplex gearshift. But I had one bike with the old Campagnolo gearshift, with two levers on the rear wheel. Now I have a Shimano 5x3 gearshift on the handlebar.

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Nice:) I don't have a bicycle that old anymore. However I saw that you can also participate with new Vintage Style Bikes if they are road racing bikes assembled using vintage components or replicated parts similar to the original like the Bianchi L'Eroica.

Note the shift levers, toe clips and straps, and brake cables:)
Ops. A Bianchi L'Eroica costs 2,299€ ...

7300 cyclists have run the Eroica circuit in Chiantishire with bikes built before 1987. The circuits went from 39 to 209 km both on asphalt and gravel roads. There is no information about the Chianti consumption/km.
Tullio

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GP Moto Thailandia Buriram
1 Marc Marquez Honda
2 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
3 Maverick Vinales Yamaha
4 Valentino Rossi Yamaha
Marquez always leading

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GP Japan Suzuka
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes
3 Max Verstappen Red Bull
Ferrari gone with the wind

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Last bicycle races of the season. Tomorrow Giro dell'Emilia, Sunday Coppa Beghelli, next week Giro di Lombardia, the "Giro delle foglie morte". Next will begin the ski races. The 2026 Olympics ski games will be split between Milano (Bormio) and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

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Race cyclists have all a power monitor on their bikes. They can go as up as 500 W while sprinting to win.
Tullio

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The Bicycle is the Most Efficient Machine on Earth!
http://www.bfw.org/blog/2014/06/11/the-bicycle-is-the-most-efficient-machine-on-earth/

I did some calculations and compared with 1 liter gasoline that contain 10 kWh of energy.
Biking at 20 km/h (moderate tempo) equals approximately 100 W on average and 1 liter of gasoline would then last for 100 hours ie about 2,000 km.
That's about the distance from Stockholm to Trieste:)

Donna Strickland is the third woman to get the Nobel Prize in Physics, and the first since 1963. During the press conference, she is asked if she has any comment.
"I thought there could have been more. I do not know what to say but I'm honored to be one of those women, "Donna Strickland replies.
The Nobel Prize-winning article was her first and part of her doctoral thesis.
"It's not bad," says Gunnar Ingelman, professor of subatomic physics.

And the 96-year-old Arthur Ashkin is still in full swing with his research. He has told the Royal Academy of Sciences that he probably can not give any interviews because he is busy with his next scientific article:)

After a Pisa male physicist, Alessandro Strumia, had said in a CERN meeting that women physicists are inferior to men and was banned from CERN, the Nobel Academy reacts by assigning the Nobel Prize to two men, one American Arthur Ashkin and one French, Gerard Mourou, and a woman, the Canadian Donna Strickland. all for research work on lasers.
Tullio

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At last!
Alejandro Valverde, aged 38! and two time silver and four time bronze in earlier cycling world championships, got the rainbow jersey!

VIDEO - Alejandro Valverde campione del mondo! L'azione vincente dell'infinito campione spagnolo
https://video-it.eurosport.com/ciclismo/mondiali/2018/alejandro-valverde-campione-del-mondo-l-azione-vincente-dell-infinito-campione-spagnolo_vid1127512/video.shtml

GP Russia Sochi
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes
3 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari
Lewis increases his leadership, the title is his

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I am still cycling at 83. Mathematician Michael Atiyah, 89, claims to have demonstrated the Riemann conjecture. They say that the father of Enrico Bombieri, a mathematician too now at Princeton, had promised his son a Ferrari (he was a banker) if he demonstrated it but no avail. Enrico is still driving a Ford or a Fiat.

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Only 34?
Kristin Armstrong won an olympic gold medel when she was 38:)
But I think that there are not so many athletic games as cycling where you can be even be more than 40 to compete with the best.
Some can even be 66 years of age and still competing.
Stålfarfar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_H%C3%A5kansson

Tatiana Guderzo,34, ran her 16th World Championship and finished third. She had won in 2009 and was second in 2004.

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World Championship Cycling.
Gold Anna Van Der Breggen, Netherlands.
And Emilia Fahlin, Sweden 4'th:)
I saw that Dieter "Didi" Senft aka "Der Tuefel" was there as well cheering the riders:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didi_Senft