{"id":88,"date":"2008-06-24T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainmen.net\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-11-19T01:34:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:34:28","slug":"extreme-toscana-secondo-tentativo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rainmen.net\/wordpress\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Toscana, secondo tentativo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed eccoci di nuovo a tentare l’Extreme<\/i> e farci tentare dalle sue strade. Tre amici curiosi, uno inglese e due salernitani di Roma, provocatori e digiuni di challenge ci hanno tirato dentro. In questi giorni di caldo estremo, un tentativo di respirare aria fresca \u00e8 sembrato invitante anche se qualcosa mi diceva le cose che sembrano cos\u00ec facili poi\u2026<\/span><\/font>
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Giornata perfetta, troppo perfetta. Ad ogni parapetto il paesaggio sembrava richiamare come sirena il marinaio-motociclista con la sua macchina fotografica. Quindi, posteggiare la moto in posizione sicura, tirar fuori la digitale e via, scatto dopo scatto\u2026<\/font>
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L’ingresso nella foresta dell’Acquerino produce quasi sempre un effetto di eclissi totale, improvvisa; dalla luce che ci ha accompagnato fin l\u00ec, al buio degli abeti e faggi in cui ci immergiamo\u2026<\/div>\n
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Buio che spesso impedisce di veder bene i crateri prodotti dal gelo sull’asfalto con conseguenze immaginabili sul \u201ctempo tiranno\u201d. <\/div>\n
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Intanto il caldo comincia a farsi sentire e il check point di S. Momm\u00e8 diventa un miraggio fra le montagne.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Il percorso continua a distrarre i partecipanti di questo challenge e la vera sfida diventa quella di trovare lo scorcio migliore.<\/div>\n
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Quindi la velocit\u00e0 diventa quella di un treno in manovra\u2026<\/div>\n
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Per raffreddare i motori delle fotocamere i Check Points diventano fondamentali. Pescia \u00a0\u00e8 deserta alle 12, la piazza un forno.<\/div>\n
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La sosta \u00e8 delle migliori, ma il tempo \u00e8 tiranno\u2026<\/div>\n
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La discesa che porta a Bagni di Lucca \u00e8 una breve rinascita, le curve fresche e solitarie, rigenerano. L’orologio corre allo stesso modo. A Castelnuovo Garfagnana siamo gi\u00e0 fuori ogni possibilit\u00e0 di riuscita.<\/div>\n
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Non rimane altro che finir seduti ad un tavolo e godere dell’ombra delle logge che ci accolgono per un lungo pranzo nelle ore pi\u00f9 calde, con un sogno di fresco luogo solitario\u2026<\/div>\n
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be\u2019, non proprio cos\u00ec\u2026<\/div>\n
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ma cos\u00ec \u00a0\u00e8 gi\u00e0 abbastanza.<\/div>\n
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San Pellegrino in Alpe \u00e8 un CHECK POINT per gli occhi\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00e8 la capitale dei viandanti, moderni pellegrini in moto-perpetuo\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Ritenteremo.<\/div>\n
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Monday, June 23rd
Here we’re back to the Extreme, fascinated by its roads. Three curious friends, one English and two salernitani living in Rome, provocative and fasts of challenges who had pulled us in. In these days of extreme heat, an attempt to breathe fresh air seemed inviting even if something told me things that seem so easy then\u2026<\/div>\n
Perfect day, too perfect. At any parapet the landscape, like a siren, was\u00a0calling us,\u00a0 sailor-motorcyclists with their cameras. Then, parking the bikes in a safe place, we took out the digital and shot after shot\u2026<\/div>\n
Entering in the Acquerino forest always produces an effect of total eclipses.
\nSuddenly we dive into the deep, dark and cool shadow of firs and\u00a0 beech trees and where we do not see the craters produced on the tar by winter frost with the imaginable consequences on the " tyrannous time. Meanwhile the heat begins to be felt and the checkpoint of S. Momm\u00e8 becomes a mirage in the mountains.
The route continues to distract the challengers and the real challenge becomes to find the best spots.<\/div>\n
So our speed becomes even lower.<\/div>\n
To cool the engines of the cameras, Check Points become crucial. Pescia is deserted at noon, the square is a oven.<\/div>\n
The pause is one of the best ones, but\u00a0 time is\u00a0 running\u2026<\/div>\n
The slope which leads to Bagni di Lucca is a brief rebirth, fresh curves and lonely, regenerates. The clock runs in the same way. A Castelnuovo Garfagnana we are already out any possibility of success.<\/div>\n
There remains nothing but sitting at a table and enjoy the shady logge where we had\u00a0 lunch in the hottest part of the day, dreaming a cool and lonely place\u2026<\/div>\n
not exactly like this\u2026<\/div>\n
but that is enough.<\/div>\n
San Pellegrino in Alpe is a CHECK POINT\u00a0 to please your eyes\u2026<\/div>\n
and the capital of wayfarers, modern pilgrims in "moto perpetuo".<\/div>\n
Lets try it again<\/div>\n

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