Don Wilson wrote:
>This is a major work of art. It needs to be preserved
>and protected. Get it out of the weather for gods
>sakes. It is sublime.
>Don Wilson
>Los Olivos, CA
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First of all: don't ever get the idea that the bike is, or has been for
that matter, sitting outside.
It has been kept at the very end of a shed where so many left over
bikes, and parts, from the Women's Professional Team MichelaFanini are
sitting. Brunello Fanini, who runs the team, is very attached to that
bike, as his son told me. I doubt he would ever sell it (I tell you,
just in case ...).
I do think it is a work of art, as horrible as it is to my eyes.
But I would never dare to take it along on my favourite montain rides:
just too scared, I would be.
Brunello runs a business along via Pesiatina, just a few kilometers
outside Lucca, and the huge sign of the shop says:
FANINI ARTE
If you don't believe it, just pass along.
A due note I should add. Brunello was the father of the late Michela Fanini, a young champion cyclist, who tragically died in a car accident. Sad, very sad, story: google it out!
Sergio
Pisa