This is the blog of the instagram page @heroesonbike You'll find extra content that I can't post due to space constraints in terms of writing character limits. I hope that opening this space will help spread the stories of cyclists that would otherwise go forgotten!
24 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Hob
In the collective imagination Coppi and Bartali were enemies and even opposites. United by a catalyst that is the bicycle: one was the North Pole, the other the South Pole. Bartali was the Catholic, Coppi the communist. One was virtue, the other sin...
18 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Hob
The most fascinating race on the cycling scene returns to the Olympics. It was eliminated from the Olympic program because only the men's category was scheduled, but from Tokyo 2020 there will also be a women's race. It is a "prehistoric" race born m...
4 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Hob
Cycling is a sport that still lives on a rhetoric made up of hard work, sacrifice, pain, catharsis, and stoicism-. "Cycling is not a game," people say, mocking colleagues in other sports who throw themselves to the ground to simulate foul contact.......
26 Jun 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Hob
Between the two world wars, the cigarette emerged from World War I as a central element of material culture in the United States and other European belligerent countries, where cigarette consumption came to exceed 4.6 billion per year-about 100 cigar...
20 Jun 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Hob
The most famous photo in the history of cycling is the one of Coppi and Bartali's water bottle (but it was taken at the Tour). One of the most famous of the Giro was taken in 1956 by Magni, in the Giro later won by Luxembourger Charly Gaul. Magni, al...
12 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Hob
The "Fabbrica Italiana Velocipedi di Edoardo Bianchi", known simply as Bianchi, is the oldest bicycle factory in the world still existing (founded in 1885), once also an important Italian car and motorcycle manufacturer. Since the 20's appears the cl...
5 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Hob
Vasco Bergamaschi, a forgotten pink jersey (or almost) There is a history hidden, almost forgotten, tied to an Italian cyclist. A winner since he won the pink race in 1935. His name was Vasco Bergamaschi, but for everyone he was "Singapore". Crushe...
30 May 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Hob
An exceptional talent and a strong personality, that's who Reggie was. Reggie McNamara grew up in the Australian countryside the son of a sheep farmer and learned to ride a bike sharing the only bicycle with his 13 brothers and sisters. He started...
20 May 2021 16 minute read 1 comment Hob
Born in Paris on January 22, 1885 to a family of humble origins. Christophe was a professional cyclist from 1904 to 1926, a very long career, largely due to an exceptional physique. He was an unlucky cyclist, he could have won much more in his caree...
13 May 2021 10 minute read 0 comments Hob
Maurice Brocco a fighter remembered as the first GREGARIO other languages below Maurice Brocco 1912 (BnF) From before his debut as a cyclist Maurice demonstrated his combativeness and his life was quite lively. In 1902, at the age of 17, Maurice jo...
