Effectively at present marks the tip of Faggin Week right here on the weblog:
Whereas I lastly received a correct experience on it the opposite day, I received an much more correct experience on it at present, with reasonable climbs and descents and all the pieces:
The bike might look its age after which some, however it looks like 1,000,000 bucks, or extra precisely its pre-Euro equal, which might have been someplace round ITL3,000,000,000,000,000,000.
There’s an attract–dare I say a romance–to the Italian highway bicycle that’s maybe extra highly effective than every other. And naturally the biking cognascenti cogoscenti know-it-alls every have their favourite marque and builder and may establish from which Columbus tubing a motorbike is made just by licking it in addition to describe in nice element its experience attributes, as if their scranuses are as finely tuned devices as delicate as an oenophile’s tongue.
However how a lot of that’s really the bike, and the way a lot of it’s as a result of we’re principally simply dumb anglophones? Whereas I believe nearly all of basic Italian highway bikes experience superbly, I additionally suspect the attractive method through which they experience is pretty indistinguishable, and that most individuals type their impressions and preferences about which Italian highway bike they like greatest based mostly largely on the title and the paint. For instance, once I was first getting actually into highway bikes, I believed Ciöcces (or is it Ciöcci…? Like gnocci…?) have been extremely cool:
[Via Classic Cycle]
I didn’t know a factor about them, besides that the title had three “c” and an umlaut in it and was fully unpronounceable, which I discovered beguiling. And that was sufficient. In actual fact, I believe the unpronounceability of Italian highway bike names accounts for no less than 50% of their attract:
[Seen at Jersey Cycles]
I imply it’s an actual magnificence, however the title with a bunch of additional letters you don’t pronounce actually takes it excessive.
So would a rose by every other title odor as candy? Think about the Cervino, which is the truth is primarily a Viner, however bears a model title most individuals at present now affiliate with low-cost mountain bikes at Dick’s Sporting Items:
It definitely does odor as candy in that it additionally rides superbly, however due to the Nishiki decal the uninitiated twenty first century cyclists merely mistake it for an previous crappy 10-speed–and there’s a sure satisfaction in that, for less than you understand that you simply’re using round with a Viner between your legs.
Trip secure this weekend, thanks for studying, and please settle for my apologies for the Viner puns. However they ain’t stopping anytime quickly.
