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By Nathan Cambridge   If you were out early Sunday morning and thought you noticed an unusual deluge of cyclists flooding the streets from Pasadena, moving east in packs, you were not wrong. It was the second coming of the Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia Pasadena edition."It was an epic ride today," rider Royce Hudson, who rode the maximum distance avai...

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When: Wednesday, July 9th — 7:30 p.m.Where: Regent Theatre — 7 Medford Street, Arlington, MATickets: $8 advance, $10 day of event. Click here to purchase tickets. In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, a titanic feat of physical and mental endurance that no rider ha...

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After an approximately four-year hiatus, Bianchi USA is once again offering mountain bikes here. The Italian company stopped offering mountain bikes in the U.S. in 2010 as it focused on its 'cross, road, track and city bike categories.   Bianchi has always offered mountain bikes in Italy and began selling them to retailers in Mexico aga...

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Gino Bartali rarely spoke about this for all these years. During World War II, the champion cyclist — winner of the 1938 and 1948 Tour de France — helped rescue Jews in his native Italy by hiding forged documents and papers in the tubes and seat of his bike. Bartali died in 2000. Now, son Andrea Bartali is leading an effort to gain recogn...

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Giro d'Italia officials have put together a balanced route for next year's race, which they hope will attract some of the best riders in the world. Organizers revealed the 21-stage route on Monday at a presentation at the Milan Expo in the presence of numerous cyclists, including reigning champion Alberto Contador, new world champion Peter Sagan an...

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by Johanna Pugh   The design-forward midtown pizzeria Hot Italian is launching a pop-up bicycle showroom tomorrow for the popular San Francisco-based boutique bicycle brand Public Bikes, created by Design Within Reach founder Rob Forbes. For the next three months, 20 bicycles will be on display inside Hot Italian, at the corner of 16th...

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Ogden's ambition to be a recreation-industry hub got a boost this week when the Governor's Office of Economic Development board provided an incentive to attract an Italian bicycle-parts manufacturer to the area. Selle Royal, which was founded in Italy in 1956 and made a big move into mountin biking in 2008, will receive a post-performance tax...

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Sono 32 le aziende italiane che, coordinate dall'Agenzia Ice e dall'ANCMA, partecipano in questi giorni all'edizione 2013 di Intrerbike, la principale manifestazione dedicata alle biciclette negli Stati Uniti, inaugurata ieri al Centro espositivo del Mandalay Bay, a Las Vegas.   Le importazioni Usa di biciclette, parti e accessori nel 2012 h...

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di Massimiliano Del Barba Uno pneumatico praticamente indistruttibile che si irrigidisce quando la velocità aumenta, diminuendo sensibilmente l'attrito con l'asfalto, e che, appena si toccano i freni, diventa più morbido, garantendo più aderenza e, di conseguenza, maggior sicurezza. Magie della tecnologia. Magia del grafene. Trasparente, impermea...

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Italian cycling legend Gino Bartali secretly helped save Jews from Nazi persecution by transporting fake identification papers and messages in his bicycle frame as he trained for the Tour de France. Other Italians, including Roman Catholic priests, are also among the silent heroes who helped protect Jews who were living or seeking refuge in Italy d...

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