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(2009 Photo By Stronkaciui Nencio)
I do not know whether it is more strange that an idea is born unhealthy, or by chance that over the years become an event. Often the ideas are like lightning, you get fast and just as quickly divert their course and take on features of the river in flood. One thing to underwear can become public, become an adult as a child grows and changes.
Panta rei ...
STRONKACIUI 2009: Well, I thought worse! The
stronkaciui is an event for nearly four years of my agenda.Lo is fixed for a lot of reasons: Meanwhile, the area of \u200b\u200bLivorno and environs has always inspired me and I've always liked for its trails and its views, then the stronka holds the true essence of mountain bike is an event that can bring together so many different backgrounds and biker eliminating the differences that exist between different ways of looking at the mountain bike, why do you go to stronkaciui for MTB, and the basta.Partecipai Stronka for the first time in 2006: I tried to take from a couple of years at least, but for one reason or another I always had that in March 2006 rinunciare.Capita convince me to go for a ride down to St Vincent, an hour's drive south of Livorno, the tour was the "Way of the Cavalry" and still now I remember him as one of the finest rounds ever fatti.L 'emotion experienced by those views and those paths led me then to make sure that I could not miss the Stronkaciui 2006.Feci the way of the cavalry with my Inbred singlespeed, and temptation to use it for the Stronka was very strong. However, lobbying tips and more friends in the summer especially since I had an injured meniscus that I decided to tackle my first year with "changes with the bike and climbed the peak with a conservative 1X9. Needless to say, at the end around, although that year was marked by mud and rain, remained in me the curiosity to take a tour of its kind in singlespeed. And so it was for the next two years: every time I had left a bitter aftertaste that he had never taken up this challenge with the bike monomarcia.Finalmente with the 2009 edition are also able to take off my whim to do and conclude in a Stronkaciui monomarcia.L 'occasion coincided with an invitation by rags, singlespeeder one of the last-but certainly among the most active and enthusiastic: Yoda, the Valle d'Aosta. By Yoda I had during the four hours of les isles, as well as we were on stretchers Aosta for a mega-round of a mini-rally in singlespeed, and we found involved in Finale Ligure single speed for the Italians, I was with him in Rome for the 6H singlespeed. So in this little game I would not be alone but I could count on my fellow faithful squire stretcher and snacks (as well as team manager of the team HUTR) and as also called on the stimulus of having a trained and singlespeeder fast as the Aosta Valley, not forgetting the valuable Big Iguana Jim, even if he changes -tailed. We are greeted there is certainly the best possible sky, clouds threatening rain, the humidity is high but in the end, the temperature is right. It starts as a tradition, we start immediately on a wide dirt road uphill from the bottom very slippery: Yoda takes a big step, I trooped rest, but never mind because I find myself so closely with one of my dearest friends: Justin, known Crazy as that of Lucca but Baiocchi today is ... "like pennies." I do not know what we are not left on the bike and is really a pleasure to meet him, we chat, waiting stretcher and, by group, ripartiamo.In top of this first ascent, and so we find Yoda, in the best tradition, we come together to create all the usual handful in the rear. We talk, we tease, reference is made rounds together and time is moving ... there is only silence along the slopes, interrupted only by a few curse words or encouragement. It 'exciting travel and be able to get some climbs in the saddle, the 33x22 is perfect: at times requires a lot of energy, but that always leaves little margin Non-nailed, to even be able to revive as soon as you have a chance. Yoda is pretty much everything in the saddle, I twice put his foot on a stone uphill all the rain made it slippery in the morning, but I praise on a singletrack climb from the bottom into the earth and rocks where recovery and overtaking a lot of people with bikes with the change: and, inevitably, I think if we were all mumbling to a marathon, while all moving here, I want to make you not stop and indeed are not uncommon in the words of encouragement and apprezzamento.Questo is the spirit of Stronka and spirit of the mountain bike challenge, a challenge if there is not with others but with yourself and the path. Period. Meanwhile the snake of bikers is stretched and split, even you can not go down without a hitch and the last singletrack are beautiful, a real pleasure. We go down in columns, with a nice rhythm, but without overdoing it trying to run the bike with lightweight, light-as are the head and soul after so many hours of bike: Bike hours immersed in that clear concerns, thoughts and in a sense erase fatigue. It 'a state of nirvana, almost every climb is covered and dealt with after knowing that there will be a downhill where you can divertire.Il time is a relative size now, I do not know what time it is and how we are in the saddle, but no matter, abbastanza.E is not the end, when the last singletrack comes out asphalt, the satisfaction is enormous, yet share the desire to make another descent, another sentiero.Anche whether to increase the pleasure to be able to say "and this year has made it" thinks the beach Fortullino, the banquet with a sangria excellent aperitif and then ... and then, as if this were not enough, the pasta and grilled sausages then again, that my mom show! A Labronici proper thanks to all involved in the organization (the WBB and the Circle port), thanks to a stretcher and Yoda and thanks to my bike, Nencio for photos and a salute to all those to whom I rode side by side during all hours in the saddle.
(written by Milk : http://hutr2009.blogspot.com/ )
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