19 September 2012
Pliskovica Tour Teaser
...Just a fun, quick teaser which made me think about a potential edit of the footage from last Sunday's ride. Could be working on that very soon, we'll see...
17 September 2012
The Longest Ride...
...to date. Yep. Last Sunday morning at 10am a much anticipated, well planned (were it not for the lunch break...) and wonderfully-blessed-by-a-perfect-weather bike trip rolled out. Destination: Slovenia, with its ups and downs and beautiful scenarios and peaceful roads (left aside a couple bitchy car drivers, as usual).
The best thing of this truly unforgettable tour is that finally we were a dozen riders. Not just three, or two as it often happens. Fixed gears, single speeds, racing bikes...It wasn't just hardcore fixies but that didn't matter at all. What mattered was that we succeeded in creating a group that was happy to ride roughly 80km enjoying the ride, having lots of fun and getting to know each other. It might not happen anymore, we might not be able to do a another tour with more than 5 riders all together but it did happen once! Which is proof of the possibility for it to happen again.
Yes we did loose a couple riders along the road. Some just couldn't make it all the way, some had to head back to Italy at a certain time of the day. Some had to stop for food, which as said above was perhaps the only negative note, if we can call it that way: It wasn't such a big deal in the end for most of us, especially the Prof who had eaten something like 5 energetic chocolate bars and could have, probably, pedaled for another 24 hours in a row illuminating the road at night with his own eyes... So when we did finally stop in an Osmica, craving for food was at a climax and we had to be careful not to mistake an arm for a slice of prosciutto...
I must thank every single one of them for this wonderful memory: A Sunday ride that will be remembered by the Matitesonfissà members. I'll end this one with a short video which epitomizes the whole mood of the trip: a doped Prof leading a pack of growling monsters.
Thanks guys. Way too much appreciated.
The best thing of this truly unforgettable tour is that finally we were a dozen riders. Not just three, or two as it often happens. Fixed gears, single speeds, racing bikes...It wasn't just hardcore fixies but that didn't matter at all. What mattered was that we succeeded in creating a group that was happy to ride roughly 80km enjoying the ride, having lots of fun and getting to know each other. It might not happen anymore, we might not be able to do a another tour with more than 5 riders all together but it did happen once! Which is proof of the possibility for it to happen again.
Yes we did loose a couple riders along the road. Some just couldn't make it all the way, some had to head back to Italy at a certain time of the day. Some had to stop for food, which as said above was perhaps the only negative note, if we can call it that way: It wasn't such a big deal in the end for most of us, especially the Prof who had eaten something like 5 energetic chocolate bars and could have, probably, pedaled for another 24 hours in a row illuminating the road at night with his own eyes... So when we did finally stop in an Osmica, craving for food was at a climax and we had to be careful not to mistake an arm for a slice of prosciutto...
I must thank every single one of them for this wonderful memory: A Sunday ride that will be remembered by the Matitesonfissà members. I'll end this one with a short video which epitomizes the whole mood of the trip: a doped Prof leading a pack of growling monsters.
Thanks guys. Way too much appreciated.
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