a glass of wine IDEALLY DRUNK TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF THE FIRE OF CYCLING & SALAMI BREAD. MAIN CYCLING PST. ALESSANDRO AND TELLS ME THAT ...
Cycling has a great story, made up of many small stories. And because the side heard by the people, the fans, is that of simplicity, I asked Alessandro Oriani if \u200b\u200bI could "exploit" for those who were his cycling years. Years that led up to the amateurs. On the table two glasses and a bottle. We fill them, let us together.
Alex, I know that your family has experienced the world of cycling already many years ago, because one of your grandparents was part of the "caravan" in the big races. Can you tell us something about this?
"My family (to me) has always breathed cycling from my great-grandfather Carlo Oriani, who won the Giro d 'Italy in 1912 Lombardy in 1913 and a mesh "Main", my grandfather Gino Oriani was the 'driver' s flagship Fausto Coppi 1946 to 1954, he gave me two links of Fausto and jealously guards that are still in perfect condition I have kept for years (and I also cycled) a Bianchi with which he had run the champion in 1953.
The stories of my father on trips to listen to radio, as the great pistards Maspes, Post, Plattner, Gaiardoni, Rousseau, Harris, the 6 days at the indoor stadium in Milan of the 70s and 80s, with improbable stories of my workouts My father and uncle at 5 in the morning because you had to go back in time to go to work or after work, Vigorelli velodrome, the falls I've remedied on that track too difficult and too technical for a mediocre runner like me, the memorable story of my father who once pretended mechanic Peter Post and entered the parterre bike (by Peter Post) shoulder in the days before the championship on runway held in Milan, and behold, these are my roots modest former runner failed with great passion and great historical memory, I knew Maspes, I rode (in training) with Claudio Chiappucci, with Alberto Elli, with Stefano Allocchio, I met with former Johan Musseuw training in the hills of Brianza, Gewiss I knit and I was mistaken for a real racer, great emotion. Coming from here, "
classic question, and your first bike. The memories?
“La mia prima bici da corsa era una "Terruzzi" blu metallizzata ricevuta a 7 anni (credo) che trattavo come una fuoriserie e che mi ha fatto da palestra per le mie prime uscite e i miei primi mal di gambe sulle collinette della Brianza ad un certo punto era diventata talmente piccola da costringermi ad usare un canotto reggisella talmente lungo da sembrare illegale; ero aerodinamico e ridicolo, la bici ? Non so che fine abbia fatto, non ricordo”
Da ciclista sei arrivato fino al dilettantismo. Con quali Gruppi Sportivi hai corso?
“Ho corso per il "Pedale Sestese" da allievo nelle stagioni 1983 e 1984, sono passato poi alla "UC Sestese cicli Taldo" che altro non era se non una costola del Pedale Sestese (società che esiste tuttora) formata da transfughi in rotta con la dirigenza e alcuni tecnici, per questa società ho corso nel 1985 e 1986, l' ultimo anno (il 1987, da dilettante di seconda serie) ho corso per una società bergamasca, il "GS Mobili Turani", conservo tuttora una maglia da gara di questa squadra”
Oggi ci sono dilettanti che possono permettersi di pensare solo al pedalare. Com’era la tua vita da ciclista dilettante? Dovevi dividerti tra lavoro e bicicletta?
“Spiace deludere i romantici di un certo ciclismo che non esiste più da tempo immemorabile, ma già allora il ciclismo (ancorché dilettantistico) era uno sport al quale (solo per finish well the race) had to pay 101% of 'commitment, those who worked could not hold certain rhythms, especially when the categories of amateur before (the elite without contract date) and the second series (the "under 23" today) together without running separate classifications, a 18 year old boy with high hopes I happened to try to "suffer" the train of people 26 to 27 years since he went pro among amateurs because they earned more, had to suffer because "those "pushing 12, with the ease of a child playing well and finish the races was already half a victory, because the way you had teams like" Carrera Inoxpran ", the" Brescialat ", the" Chateau 's Axe "not easy"
Your amateur cycling world was that? "There were some good things that were maintained and remember with pleasure? more that you think you are lost?
" One good thing about amateur cycling then? Well, it is difficult to say that there was a bit less (but not much eh?) exasperation, there was a chance to grow alongside more experienced runners who could give you the right advice if they saw that you committed and made you down a peg if you act like an "arrived", and there were hierarchies of respect. What is left? Frankly I do not know, I do not see a male running for 10 years, I do not know how the ' environment, it may seem strange to the reader, but I miss it. Sorry ... "
What training did you do? Eri-employee table?
"With regard to training, I must say that I never went" a feeling ", if it was written in table 160 km, and those were the most frequently became 175-180 preferably tracks along with amateurs of the first series ( opened up when the turbo was pain!), the tables I did because I liked being involved in myself, because I always thought that a runner must know how to deal only with regard to training. Chapter
repeated: I started her junior but they were something that already I knew from the time of the non-competitive runners who played as a kid, I had heard by riders like Massimo Magnani (then coach of the marathon) and Franco Arese, I saw the training of the national athletics at Parco di Monza: people at 7 morning 's winter, cold, in the' anonymous, was preparing, spitting blood, I have taken those concepts and transferred them in cycling, in a very traditional course, but I knew that I would have helped. I felt like a pioneer and gave me the idiot. Patience. "
What are your memories of the cyclists with whom he ran and then have had no luck in the pros?
"This is a sad note, the strong (the name that is used regularly to Gianluca Bortolami) could not reach outside of racing, never understood where and how they train, were already out with the national team and made life in itself, to be honest I did not hardly speak with the "pro" that I met in training and not with my same age, there was an invisible barrier that no one (least of all those who struggled to finish races) would or could pass. "
There are a couple of races you remember more than others in particular, for better or for worse? And why?
"There are several races that I remember with particular pleasure:" Cup of 'winter', the last race calendar, running the first Sunday in November to Biassono (MI) of cold, high speed, numerous public (the Brianza is cycling paradise) and passionate, melancholy because I knew there would be a "next year" the beautiful race 'Cup 's winter, "I saw a year on that goal win Bugno (running for" Supermarkets Brianza "), I saw a huge, dominant Mario Scirea, I was a student and there I understood what it meant to" make the race ", it seems easy, It happened to me a couple of times, by mistake, I think. Another beautiful race that I attended is the "short tour of Lombardy", "my" street, the colors of 'the fall, the lake of Lecco and Como, the Ghisallo, the Pian Tivano the atmosphere, from "great" in two words "really cool".
I remember racing there are several worse: dangerous paths, huge potholes, open sewers (I happened to Pozzo d 'Adda (BG)) that the group avoided all times by a miracle, I've played too much and I removed from my memory. "
were a freak mm (as the writer) for your bike, or you trust the mechanic without thinking too much?
"The bike would also be in order because it was my bike and could not afford to fall apart, the less demanding jobs I was doing them for the rest I rely on trusted mechanic, I had the 'habit to check and recheck everything over and over again, not that I do not fidassi, but I happened to miss the placings as a result of 'incompetence of others, I had become meticulous by force. "
Now where's the bike?
"The bike (a Taldo red) and half-dismantled in the attic, next spring I would like to fix it pays to see her in that state makes me sick, I do not think pedaler more up there because each frame has suffered, but a good restoration deserves it. "
For many years you've followed the women's cycling. How did the passion for that environment?
"The passion for cycling was born female alla 6 giorni di Milano (1983 ? 1984 ? Non ricordo esattamente), forse perché... boh, mi sembrava un mondo un pò più "pulito" rispetto a quello del ciclismo maschile, forse perché sono sempre stato dalla parte degli "underdogs" per dirla all' americana, ho sempre pensato che il movimento (le atlete in primis) avrebbe meritato ben altra considerazione e attenzione da parte di pubblico e media, ho avuto l' onore di vedere all' opera atlete del calibro di Maria Canins, Roberta Bonanomi, Imelda Chiappa, Francesca Galli, Catherine Marsal, Antonella Bellutti, Jennifer Thompson, Rebecca Twigg, Connie Carpenter, Marianne Berglund, Mery Cressari, Luigina Bissoli, Zita Urbonaite (r.i.p.), Diana Ziliute e nella mia long career as a fan I had respect for the athletes, their toil, I was excited, I cried a lot, I identified with their pain when I saw them on the ground wounded in body and 'soul. Is it enough? "
After the career, you also running the marathon?
"Never did the Gran Fondo, I always thought that there is a time for everything, I could not break through for obvious physical limitations, and character, I ran, I enjoyed it, I do not regret anything and I thank God to still be here talking about it, go for the Gran Fondo would not have added anything to my (former) bankruptcy career mediocre amateur No, that's okay. "
You know the amateur cycling, and even women. There are people in these two "movements" with which you stay in touch?
"I was not in contact with anyone in the 'environment of the amateurs, I live in front of the seat of my former company, but honestly I have never crossed my mind the thought of going back just to say hello, like so many others do not I wanted to know more and the same goes for the women's cycling: recent positive doping cases (Cucinotta earlier, then Rossi) helped to move away, sometimes I think I hurt, I put in the group of bad people who do not even and has always had nothing to do with the course mezzi leali, ma come ho già detto e ripetuto un sacco di volte sui miei defunti blog, amo troppo il ciclismo, non sono uno che fa finta di niente e passa oltre con un "dimentichiamo tutto". Mi dispiace.”
La chiacchierata finisce qui. Grazie Alessandro. Resta nei bicchieri l’ultimo sorso; alla salute.
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