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di Filippo Fantoni
Sabato 14 Giugno
Venerdì ho ricevuto i preziosi adesivi Extreme: erano solamente otto, uno è dedicato all’archivio, ne rimangono 6. Pochi mi son detto, bisognerà consegnarli solo ai primi, cioè a coloro che arrivano con il tempo massimo, come da regolamento…
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Una giornata di fine febbraio arrivata a giugno.
Queste le premesse dell’extreme: due i partenti.
I sedici gradi e le nuvole cariche di pioggia potevano deludere chiunque ma non un rainmen.
Sbagliato: l’Extreme non è un’uscita qualsiasi, è davvero estremo.
Duecento venti chilometri in cinque ore significa 44 chilometri l’ora, non considerando le tre fermate ai Check Point.
Quindi, in questa prova, il clima incide molto sui tempi di percorrenza, le sue variabili imponderabili diventano qui determinanti per terminare entro i tempi dati.
Altri dettagli però possono influire sul risultato, mettete per esempio che nel secondo Check point il bar abbia la toilette al primo piano e l’unico modo per raggiungerla sia un ascensore lentissimo.
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Il bilancio è comunque assolutamente in attivo perché la luce, la temperatura, le strade deserte erano un regalo perfetto.
Rimane un punto: i sei adesivi saranno sufficienti per i prossimi tre anni?
English text below
Saturday, June 14
On Friday I received the precious stickers Extreme: they were only eight, one is dedicated to the archive, they remain some six.
I told myself, it will have to only deliver them to first, namely those who arrive with the maximum time, according to the rules.
Saturday at 14:30, at Candeglia the road was deserted, the bar Rossella silent, the young couple who runs it was at lunch or who knows where and the old grandmother even unable to lower the levers of "faema".
A day of late February came in June.
These are the preconditions of the extreme: two the departing bikers.
Sixteen degrees and clouds loaded with rain could disappoint anybody but not a rainmen.
Wrong: the Extreme is not a difficult ride, it is really extreme.
Two hundred and twenty kilometers in five hours means 44 kilometers per hour, not considering the three stops at the Check Points.
Roads, although beautiful (and say that I know), are narrow and with variables that would not be taken into consideration in a normal tour.
Two examples? The edges of the roads not cleaned (that prevent visual) and the accumulation of soil with leaves deposited by heavy rains always in the center of the curves.
So in this challenge, climate affect much on journey times, its variables imponderables here become crucial
to finish on time data.
Other details, however, may influence the outcome, for example, put that in the second check point the bar has a toilet on the first floor and the only way to achieve it is a slow elevator.
If in urgent cases this can become a nightmare, in normal cases it takes at least five minutes each to solve the problem.Well, in order to make it shorter, we arrived at Midway, just before Bagni di Lucca, having burned the two thirds of our time, remained 100 km of mountains to go in an hour and a quarter. Impossible! The budget is absolutely in surplus because light, temperature and roads were desert and solitary: a perfect gift.
End of Challenge.