Latest generation bikes, made with increasingly light and performing materials;
technical uniforms baked after complex, refined research conducted by specialists: fundamental progress also for the world of cycling, but they are herdsmen that in this case will be able to stay at home.
Because the spirit of "L 'Eroica" is anything but: it is not a race, but a cycling event largely on dirt roads.
Born from an idea of Giancarlo Brocci, launched in 1997 in the province of Siena, it essentially brings together all the cycling enthusiasts of the past, the one before 1987.
Regular wool sweaters;
Requirements to be respected for the racing bicycles with which you are presented at the start: steel frame, gear levers on the down tube, brake wires outside the levers, pedals with cage,
Sunday 2 October, from 9.40am, “L'Eroica” is back.
Departure from Gaiole in Chianti, there are 5 routes - of varying lengths - proposed: from 32 km of the "Passeggiata", to 209 km of the "Lungo", with 115 km of dirt roads and 5 refreshment points.
An event, a visual impact, an obviously unmissable landscape setting.
It will be possible to see it from 9.40 on Rai Sport + HD and in streaming on rainews.it and Rai Play-