This will be the last of my Cipo photos in a post for a while and only because I’m employing self-control.
To me he exemplifies “Italian Cyclist” and if I weren’t so lazy I would try to find his quote about cycling being representative of all that is beautiful in life.
Watch this silly video of Mario getting punked. The set up is the guy in the little car tells Mario some of Mario’s bike have been stolen and seconds later a camper goes by with some of Cipo’s bike on the back.
Italian hilarity ensues.
One has to come away with a few things from this fine bit of TV: Italian TV looks better than US TV, at least concerning the dress code for the hostesses. Cipo is so cool. I believe he does all this with his cycling shoes on. And his sleeveless jersey with world champion stripes still visible, oh I’m more than impressed. Unfortunately us non-Italian speakers are missing a lot of excellent Italian cursing and taunting here too. Enjoy.
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@Marko
Zipp skewers, huh? I totally figured you for the K-Force Carbone ones...
Ti is what I was going for. That and the zipp theme.
And, according to the interweb anyway, the zipps are 9g lighter.
Gotta wonder how much of that clip is staged - still damn funny though - and I understand no Italian at all. I've always wanted to learn Italian, just to yell at motorists and assorted cyclists - would be goof.
Mario is the cycling rock star. It was cool seeing him in action, including the brief career with Rock Racing.
And yeah, what's with TV show hostess outfit? Too bad local cable doesn't include a few Italian stations.
@Dan O
I've got one good Italian phrase to yell at motorists, "Va Fanculo!" loosely translated, "go f... yourself." Very useful and fun to say. You are right about Cipo, he is the rock star of cycling. I can't think of who can fill those shoes. Nobody.
And thank god he escaped from Rock Racing, what a bunch of tossers. They can't figure out why they don't get an upgrade in license. Shouldn't Ricardo Ricco have signed with them by now?
Thanks to whomever placed the pingback to the "nowhere" blog. The pic of cancellara is awesome. We're fortunate to be race fans in his day and will one day remember his career fondly. I'm embarrassed to say I don't recognize the rider in the T-mobile jersey. Who is that?
@Dan O
There's a picture somewhere on Pez of some Italian babe modeling some cycling shoes or something, standing in front of a decapitated building. The Italians have it right: sex first, building maintenance second.
As if that's not good enough, the Giro presented their 2010 jerseys last week; no dudes need apply for modeling the jersey, only hot Dutch chyx.
@john
You remind me of the guy in Breaking Away. Awesome.
@Marko
The Nowhere blog is our own Brett's personal blog. It's awesome. One issue of Rouleur covered all those shots. Rad.
There are some great Cancellara shots in the Velominati Cycling Photo Archive, by the way. Check it out.
Marko, cheers. The Telekom dude is Rolf Aldag, faithful lieutenant to Der Kaiser and The Flying Mullet, and one of the good dopers who actually confessed. He and Zabel are the main subjects in the Hell On Wheels doco, which if you haven't seen is well worth a viewing.
Hope you're lovin' your 404s, we went to a Zipp presentation for their new NZ distributor last week, with the dude from headquarters in Speedway Indiana who actually designs a lot of their stuff, and it was awesome... not the usual marketing crap that you get at those things, but real tech stuff that was fantastic to listen to and learn about. Basically, any other wheel is just not as good, and he had facts and shit to back it up.
He also told a great Cancellara story; Fabian told him in his broken English that "when I come to the race with my 808s on my bike, the other riders, they are scary"!
Frank, how does one "decapitate" a building? You cracked me up with that!