
The “Calcio Storico” in Florence
By David Orr – Writer Two tattooed, lumbering men hold each other in a temporary embrace, one with a striped multi-colored ball under his arm...
By David Orr – Writer Two tattooed, lumbering men hold each other in a temporary embrace, one with a striped multi-colored ball under his arm...
This is not classical cycling, but is invoked by the design of the bicycle; the bicycles don’t have breaks and they slow down by the use of pedals; the audience and the circuit are nearly tackled numerous times at very high speed, this being the track bike crit, racing bikes with no brakes. Street circuits in the dark of the night, at a very high speed, spectacular falls and the idea of turning everything into a real Olympic sport recognized by the UCI, are the characteristics of track bike crit a competition between fashion and sport.
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