Apr 12, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
It was a long time since I did a tour like this, with all the features that I like the most: history and culture, abandoned places, paths to explore and never rode, arduous descents and climbs with impossible slopes. A stop in a small characteristic restaurant in the...
Feb 1, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
With the end of the school, the illegal bike races through the city streets began. The route, naturally open to traffic, started from Corrado’s house and then down towards the prison slide that led to the road below, along a straight downhill stretch and then at...
Jan 12, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
Little Jerusalem in Tuscany. “If you can’t go to Jerusalem, Jerusalem will come to you!” This is in short what Pope Leo X established with his bull in 1516. San Vivaldo, already a refuge for the hermits and a sacred place for some time, was handed...
Jan 12, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
Small collection of thoughts scattered on some of my trips with my faithful bicycle in my native country: Tuscany. From San Giuliano Terme, in the province of Pisa, to Lucca, I take a road below the mountain. For “below the mountain” in these parts we...
Feb 23, 2020 | How we make
Steel and its weight tend to be seen in negative terms. The word steel is, in fact, often associated with materials used for construction and for other products, without taking into account that nowadays the type of steel used for building bicycle frames is refined...
