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Vincenzo A. Ispra went gravel riding
3 days ago
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Vincenzo A. Ispra went gravel riding
4 days ago
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4 days ago
The coach said "go", @borderpaolino is also a cycling motivator, how can you not listen to him. And I've wanted to climb to Cuvignone for years. The mountain's profile approaches as I head towards Casalzuigno. The road from Vararo is closed, I have to go up from Arcumeggia. The first hairpin bends, and
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
6 days ago
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6 days ago
Goodbye beautiful asphalt roads with gentle climbs! Today paths, of stone and sand, brambles and mosquitoes. It is the Gallic spirit that guides us through the woods. Trails near home that we may have ridden once and then forgotten. There is some gravel, a bit on the edge, for riding far from busy roads
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
7 days ago
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7 days ago
We leave at dawn, without any pretensions, we take the French towards Varese. At Schiranna there's everyone, from the overheated to the originals, those looking at the lake, those sunbathing... those booking for two hours. Even the larva you don't expect, crowds on the branches and stays in the sun
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Vincenzo A. Ispra went gravel riding
July 11, 2026
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July 11, 2026
For those visiting us for the first time, this tour is a must. Lake, islands, the villages of the Grand Tour, and even the ferry crossing. We want to amaze our French friends with special effects, but it's us who are amazed: a cargo bike (strictly non-electric!) to transport our son and his bike when
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
July 8, 2026
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July 8, 2026
Second stage of the two-day trip of @Drami and @Ivan, today with special guest: @borderpaolino. And a jaw-dropping effect: Pallanza, Suna, the Toce reserve, Mergozzo, Feriolo are fireworks in the soul of those who see them for the first time. No metaphor (unfortunately) in the columns of smoke from the
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
July 7, 2026
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July 7, 2026
With @Ivan and @Drami we start again where we left off last April: Lake Varese. Someone has some new cards to play: a gravel bike, tubeless tires. Someone else, as usual, hopes not to encounter exaggerated climbs or kilometers. All that's left is Lake Comabbio, at a slow pace, crooked like the artist
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
July 5, 2026
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July 6, 2026
Feeling each other, reaching each other, finding each other, cycling up and down the province. @Rosmarie🌞🚴🥾🌷🐦 and @Benno returning home, @borderpaolino accompanying them, escorting, directing, @Jenaxs🚴🏼♀️♉ and @Giuse🚴♎ coming back up from the plain. To share a piece of the road, a climb, a carpione
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Vincenzo A. Ispra went gravel riding
June 21, 2026
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June 22, 2026
"Crazy", "out there", "unconscious". True, perhaps. It's scorching hot, but @Shoin and I are determined: it's the first day of summer. Even @borderpaolino is tempted, he who prefers the calm and the emptiness of summer nights, and who in Cusio is the Virgil who enlightens us. Thus my baptism in the lake
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Vincenzo A. Ispra went gravel riding
June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
It is the world of the blue river. The fisherman caught the catfish, he knows the difference between trout and chub. His big dog with a nose for pizza watches our bikes. At Melissa the boy "looked slowly at the water. A flash his body", Sandra Penna had already intercepted the swimmer. Then the visions
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
June 11, 2026
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June 22, 2026
At Buc there is the aqueduct. Let's go, let's go! By bike, on the roads of Anquetil and the more recent 2024 Olympics. I don't think the cyclists cut through the woods and not even through the barley fields: komoot is much more imaginative. We expected the abbeys of Vaux-de-Cernay and Lévis-Saint-Nom
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
June 8, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Cedars, plane trees, giant sequoias. The trees are the monuments of the Parc culturel de Rentilly. They are reflected on the castle's mirrored facade. Art, nature, or just illusions? Disneyland Paris seems to create them, observing the ages of the visitors, projected far beyond childhood and even puberty
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
May 30, 2026
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June 22, 2026
Il Maggiore, scenic roads, climbs, little churches with views, clubs where lunch is like in the old days, Switzerland (greener or more bucolic?), the recovered railway tracks. Top ride. We knew it a bit, but @terreje I have woven it into a continuous plot where the emotion never subsides.
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went for a bike ride
May 28, 2026
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June 17, 2026
In Canton Ticino, Alla Costa, where the road gently follows the vineyards, a landscape that is imperative to visit. The climb to Clivio is certainly not suitable for 35 degrees. But then only bad luck remains: my helmet's closure wheel pops off, the gear cable breaks, and I get a flat rear tire. The
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went for a bike ride
May 26, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Not exactly the Toce cycle path. Asphalt is better, damn it and right away, you fly. For a salad in Piazza del Mercato I don't count the kilometers. But we hadn't anticipated the valley descent against the wind. Verbania is still in pink.
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about 9 hours ago
Chronicler or explorer to document the low water levels of the Ticino? I follow the blue river in the bend of Castelnovate, and then further south. I was warned that brambles invade the path, but if I don't see it, I don't believe it. So I even have to take off my shirt to free myself from their thorny
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