Let's step back.
It 's the morning of the first ... I turn around in bed preparing for the new cycling strategy a few years.
frames that disturb my thoughts mixed with the euro symbol revolving in my twisted mind ... and come to a conclusion. This
Carver, patiently reassembled with 1X9 transmission has come to be for .. salt .. a nest egg to reinvest in order to scrape together a frame singlespeed racing.
I get out of bed and equipped with digital camera Canon Coolpix go down in the barn where lies a mix of frame and bicycle.
A bucket, a sponge, dish soap and work in great bike in my projects that will soon be enriched with his photos the marketplace section of the forum.
take a moment and picture me in the whale head the idea of \u200b\u200bgiving this bike the last km of glory in the realm of ultimate hardtail, where the myth of the Front for fun, fuck for front and above all, has taken shape.
We are in the square, waiting stretcher and while gazing yes .. I think the Carver is not beautiful, but has itself a certain arrogant charm that I really do not know how to explain.
The slope runs well, very well, we get all a merry pace, someone joked, "we got a little chest but in the end the pace does not slow down.
The bike tells me that my next singlespeed must be aluminum.
I like the responsiveness and feeling "grumpy" though the Carver is a monster of rigidity.
stretcher when I decide that today is really positive until we reach the top of the Belvedere to travel His path, the stretcher.
few Sunday's @ with one of my friends found ourselves with their biciclettoni DH I said that on the trail was very nice and they walked him often and I had included some jumps "unassuming."
So we were curious to see the state of things.
often avoid a steep climb to the summit to avoid salitone which crosses the crest of the mountain is really hard and it is not uncommon stretches on foot.
But today something is different: I notice when we leave the tarmac at Holy Cross and turn left onto "Via del Pasquilio.
what is this power that I have today in the legs? carverino that will want me to change my mind, is that this pedal sgorbietto want me to take a step back on a decision that I thought irrevocable?
The fact is that I say: I have a 34x32 lowest gear ... as long as I can go, let's see where I can get.
I am on the first steep section, the bottom is soft, but at least the stones are less obvious and there is a smooth trajectory that I can maintain with ease.
in mind I have images of a summer many years ago: it was June, the Sunday of the times mythical race of the XC Pasquilio.
The wood was green, the right temperature, sunlight through the leaves of chestnut trees.
a winery I had three yellow, with a rigid fork, ati tomac knobs, controls sopramanubrio XT, cantilever brakes. shoes sidi the Team Ritchey and Tinker Juarez, the myth of my time.
I was just in this part when I realized that I was going to take the second in my category.
In the previous round, in mid-descent, I had my laundry in the past three. I was fifth.
I changed the room as fast as ever I did, and shared some pissed off, but with the feeling I would have taken them all.
I doubt I spent two on the way down, then ... I pedaled with his head down, occasionally looking at the chain to the frying pan: we had just entered the age of the microdrive (or compact)
only exception was the XTR ( and a set of Deore LX) with his triptych 24-36-46.
I had a LX crank, but he sold it but had a 26 instead of 24. I had a rear sprocket 8v changed to 11/30.
front of me .. the guy's Maggi with its steel Olmo, all XT, 22-32-44, 11/32 9-speed.
do not know what took me, pulls down a relationship behind and pulled straight fino in cima.
Arrivai secondo, ma ero esaltatissimo. Il brutto è che a distanza di anni le sensazioni provate su quella salita sono ancora il mio metro di paragone. Follia.
Ma ieri per un attimo m'è sembrato di tornare indietro: stavo percorrendo quella salita come mai avrei pensato di riuscire a fare nella condizioni in cui sono.
La strada spiana, rallento..sono in cima e decido che aspetterò gli altri all'imbocco del barella.
Ma mi balena un'idea: è la carver, la bici da pasquilio?
Scendiamo.
The stretcher (path) is in good shape, have raised a couple of dishes, well done, and Saltini are ok (maybe only one is to be placed).
You see he is beaten and used.
Below, after having rejoined the 4X have created a variant.
not bad, but I prefer the old track ... but I know, I'm too XC
We throw on the old path that will bring us back entrance to the lower part of the process, the that was once the LagunaSeca.
And here I realize that this really is the bike Pasquilio.
Pedalo, rilancio, senza faticare, mi piace la bici che scalcia un pò ma poi sta lì.
Davanti la ruotona da confidenza e i soli 80mm della forca sembrano davvero bastare sul fondo in terra.
Pare di volare.
Prendiamo il nuovo sentierino che ci porterà sulla strada subito sotto i giochini.
Mi diverto a far scodare la bici, come quando da bimbo fai la gara a fare le "sgommate".
Ci buttiamo sui giochini, nella traccia più nuova con la paraboliche, è comparso un saltino nuovo e una passerella con atterraggio nell'unico punto piatto del sentiero. Very smart.
Passo e penso che qui dovremmo metterci un pò mano per dare "armonia" alla traccia.
Arriviamo alla parte bassa dei giochini, quella tutta curve.
Faccio un ingresso super-oooooooooooold-school tutto di traverso, manco Schwantz nel motodrome.
Peccato che la traccia sia parecchio assassinata dal passaggio di acqua, moto, quad e jeep.
Ci vuole un attimo e siamo nel budello, Barella (Damiano) pennella le curve dopo il ponticello, e io mi diverto a guardarlo anche se non è facile stargli vicino.
MAMMA MIA COME AMO QUESTO SENTIERO!!!!
and confirms: Carver Pasquilio bike.
Now how do I sell it? I think the wheels will smile, and the certainty that it is so I have it after Fiumetto. It 's a schizophrenic bike, but I like it!
I feel so at home that is fine with me also make one of the paths I walk less than absolute: the dino-grinder.
In no time we are back to square orange: it is the one and change, and 3 hours for the ride oldschool something more beautiful and full of the world.
Around hardtail for excellence around the flow of bicycles and daub.