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Rapha Rides L'Eroica

By Joe Hall • 7th October 2009 04:14pm • Posted in Events

Last weekend Rapha sent a party over to Tuscany for the vintage-style sportive L’Eroica. Ridden partly along the ‘strade bianche’ or white gravel roads of the Chianti, Valdarbia and Valdorci regions of Italy, this ‘free excursion’ harks back to the heroic days of cycling where spare tubes where worn round the shoulders and woolen shorts were king. The majority of participants hail from Italy and with a strong sense of tradition and occasion, this sportive is pure cycling nostalgia.

Rapha hosted a boutique at the start village displaying the more vintage-inspired wares of the range and then participated in the undulating ride through the lush Tuscan countryside. The Rapha riders also, of course, enjoyed a glorious array of meats, pasta, stews, dolce and vino. Troppo Brava.

VINTAGE VELO AUCTION

The regulations of L’Eroica stipulate that only road bikes comprising of technology dating before 1987 qualifies a participant. The rules state that bikes with “switch lever on the oblique tube loom, toe clips and belts, external brake wires” are accepted.

Rapha sourced some beautiful vintage machines to ride the event. Four of these bikes, provided by London shop Tour de Ville, will be auctioned on www.rapha.cc beginning this Friday.

Auction page on the site coming soon

Comments

Kevin Paro

8th October 2009 12:11pm

please sent me an e-mail when the auction is starting :-)

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