It’s December 7th, 2018. I left home at 6:40 in the morning. Around two degrees Celsius, thick fog as it is customary around here. Three layers under the leather jacket, touring pants bought around twenty years ago that are a bit tight (I’d like to say I’m fitter than I’ve ever been, but the waist size doesn’t seem to notice), two sachets of hand-warmers to stuff inside my winter gloves.
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Somewhere, behind the sad story of Lance Armstrong and his team mates doing EPO and other shit to dominate professional cycling, lies the reason behind my personal preference of a certain kind of sport.
Ask a MotoGP rider do drugs; or a mountain biker doing an downhill or enduro race; or a climber on a vertical wall in the Dolomites: none of these athletes will do drugs. That’s because the core of their activity more technique than physique.
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Speedweek_1986.jpg
Originally uploaded by aadm.
I’ve (finally) subscribed to flickr, so now I’m a ‘pro’ user. Following the same ligthroom workflow that I’m describing in this blog, I have uploaded a few pictures taken in the last few months.
This shot is from the recent Ducati Speedweek, a racing event which was held in Hungary at the end of July.
I joined a group of friends from the Multistrada forum and raced in the class B (two-cylinder engines, 2 valves per cylinder; in other words all the bikes with the usual air-cooled desmodue engine such as Supersport 900 and 1000, Monster 1000, Monster S2R, plus anything fitted with this engine, i.e. the brand new Bimota Delirio).
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