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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
2 days ago
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2 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 and Patrick L went gravel riding
6 days ago
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6 days ago
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
7 days ago
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7 days ago
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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Patrick L went cycling
June 29, 2026
Polygone de Vincennes
Reprise de l'activité physique après la 52ème vague de chaleur plutôt carabinée
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June 29, 2026
Resumption of physical activity after the 52nd rather severe heatwave. For this, the Bois de Vincennes with the discovery of the polygon, a track suitable for speed lovers.
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Patrick L went cycling
June 15, 2026
Lagny-sur-Marne par Bordeaux
Qui aurait pu savoir que Bordeaux se trouvait aussi en Seine et Marne ?
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June 22, 2026
Who would have known that Bordeaux was also in Seine et Marne? Improvising a route allows for this kind of discovery. On the way back from Lagny-sur-Marne, Parc de Rentilly, Noisiel center, and the banks of the Marne, places I'm fond of. Then a few extra kilometers on the V10 cycle path, the small ring
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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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Lella likes this.
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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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went for a bike ride
May 24, 2026
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June 17, 2026
There were kilns also in Cunardo, today ceramics are exhibited there, in the open air. But it is in Ganna that the caves and the sanctuary of Lourdes are reproduced. Faith or eccentricity? Perhaps the elephant of the Magnani mausoleum in Bregazzana can answer the question. But first, a pint of Porretti.
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
May 18, 2026
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May 20, 2026
Dourdan, our destination, is a town in Essonne with an important past, likely having been the birthplace of Hugh Capet, the founder of the dynasty from which all the kings of France descend. Dourdan is not far, but the sky is threatening. We are still in Paris when, at the place de la Catalogne, a downpour
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Vincenzo A. Ispra and Patrick L went gravel riding
May 16, 2026
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May 17, 2026
We set off from Melun with our friend Olivier, who has lived there. EuroVelo 3 follows rivers and canals, but our route often leaves it: it's too complicated to clean the bike in the city to then get it dirty on muddy dirt tracks just a few days after cleaning it! Les affolantes welcome us along the
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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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