Adriano Baffi was also taken to hospital the same night after being involved in a crash with Marco Villa and Lars Teutenberg. Closer examination showed that he had fractured a shoulder blade. Baffi was scheduled to team up with Abraham Olano in the Milan Six Day next month and it is very uncertain if he can recover in time. Villa and Teutenberg escaped with minor injuries and both can continue the race.
In front of an audience of 23 000 local favourite Andreas Kappes had to give up with a nerve injury in his right leg and went to hospital for a medical examination. Adriano Baffi also had to visit the hospital with an injured shoulder after a crash.
1. Olaf Ludwig-Carsten Wolf (Ger) 121 Pts
2. Bruno Risi-Kurt Betschart (Sch) 121
3. Jens Veggerby-Jimmy Madsen (Dan) 110
4. Adriano Baffi-Pierangelo Bincoletto (Ita) 109
5. Marco Villa-Silvio Martinello (Ita) 108
One lap behind:
6. Danny Clark-Urs Freuler (Aus/Sch) 88
Three laps behind:
7. Matthew Gilmore-Dean Woods (Aus) 32
Four laps behind:
8. Andreas Kappes-Etienne de Wilde (Ger/Bel) 69
9. Andreas Reikirch-Uwe Messerschmidt (Ger) 44
Five laps behind:
10. Lars Teutenberg-Torsten Schmidt (Ger) 68
11. Gerd Dorich-Werner Stutz (Ger/Sch) 45
12. Erik Weisspfennig-Andreas Walzer (Ger) 31.
Tomorrow's race will take place on the slopes of Monte Prat, in
the village of Forgaria (Udine), where 194 coridorii are entered.
Cadets 30 minutes - 10:00am
Juniors 40 minutes - 11:30
Women 40 minutes - starts one lap after juniors
Under 23 and Elite - 13:10
Luca Bramati will be there, looking for a win as will Daniele
Pontoni the outgoing Italian Champion.
The stage race will be held on the Island of Sardinia from 27 to 31 March, the weeek after the Primavera (MSR), the opening classic of the north. Organized by GS Sardegna and the club president Mameli, there will be five stages.
Starting in Quartu S. Elena, passing through Cagliari, Nuoro and Tempio Pausania, the Giro will finish in Alghero. There will be 20 squads comprising 180 riders.
From Jim McArdle in 'The Irish Times' for January 12th 1996:
WHILE the cycling season does not start until the first weekend in
March, the national. team director, Alasdair MacLennan has a lot
of planning to do at all levels, but particularly. for those
qualified for the Olympics, and he is busily engaged with
schedules, budgets and compiling squads for international
engagements.
There are training sessions arranged for the last two weekends in
February in Dublin, while the women are catered for on January
27th and 28th in Carlow. Then the season opens on Saturday March
2nd with the Mid-Eastern Region's league race over a north Co
Dublin circuit and the Banbridge handicap at Annaclone, followed
the next day by the Beechmount Cup race at Navan and the Kiely Cup
at Blarney.
Declan Lonergan returned to America on Wednesday after spending
Christmas at home in Waterford, but his plans are in doubt as the
sponsor of his team, Saab, have pulled out.
Lonergan was based at Plymouth in Boston, but he has gone to
Sacramento in California for the opening races of the season.
MacLennan has agreed to two different schedules for Lonergan - if
he joins a new American team he will continue to campaign there,
first on the road and then on the track, but if he does not, he
will be back to go with. Irish teams to various stage races and
track events, including the FBD Milk Ras in May, which he won in
1994.
Philip Collins goes to Manchester next week for special training
on the track there. Although Collins and Lonergan have qualified
for the pursuit and points race respectively at the Olympics, they
will have to qualify also for the world track championships in
Manchester at the end of August.
For Martin Earley and the pair vying for the other place on the
Irish team in the Olympic mountain bike race - Alastair Martin and
Robin Seymour - the first events on the World Cup mountain bike
programme will be very important..
They are in April, at Lisbon on the 14th, at Houffalize, Belgium
on the 21st and St Wandel in Germany on the 28th.
This story has a beginning. It was 1948 when a good professional
rider with 15 years of racing behind him and a passion for Things
mechanical decided to put some of his brilliant ideas into
practice. His name was Cino Cinelli, his company is Cinelli spa,
and to him goes the credit for giving modern cycling the first
aluminum handlebars, the first plastic saddle, the first leather
toestraps, end the first quick release pedal. But this story also
has a second beginning, thirty years later it was 1978 when Cino,
nearing the end of his career, decided to hand over to a young
industrialist specialised in tube manufacture, but whose heart
was already in cycling, thanks to the small-scale production of
prestige cycle tubes: Antonio Colombo. From that moment on,
mysterious entities like Talent, Passion, Luck and Friendship
worked together to ensure the rapid take off of this new factory,
whose name went right round the world, taking the inventions of
Cinelli-made design everywhere: a design that puts function and
emotion first, without ever separating them. It's a winning
formula in every sense. Champions have gone on winning with
Cinelli on road and track all over the world, and Cinelli has
become a magic name on the pro racing circuit. Few companies have
succeeded in achieving such great fame on the basis of such
numerically limited production, but the fact remains that
whenever and wherever cyclists meet, the name Cinelli means
something to be desired and treasured, even if all too rarely
owned. What's the secret? Simple: be creative, take risks, be
open-minded, put quality before quantity, and ask yourself every
day how you can do something completely new. Like that, almost
without realising it, you'll be me first to arrive when others
will follow. Here is a list of Cinelli milestones, some more
important than others, but all significant in some way,in
chronological order:
* Binda leather toestraps. (1951)
* The Olympic Tandems for Rome and Tokyo. (1960-1964)
* The Unicator Saddle, first with a plastic shell. (1962)
* New concept aluminum handlebars. (1963)
* The M71 quick-release pedal. (1971)
* Cast lugs. (1975)
* Design applied to the bicycle. (1978)
* Innovative cycle clothing. (1978)
* The introduction in Italy of BMX (1979) cycle touring bags (1982)
cycle computers (1983) cycling glasses. (1985)
* TIG welded Laser frames. (1979)
* The Laser, with its World and Olympic records. (from 1980)
* Bicycles and artists, and museum exhibitions. (from 1980)
* The first new concept cycle shops (Granciclismo). (from 1983)
* The creation of the Rampichino, the first Italian MTB. (1985)
* The first MTB race in Italy. (1985)
* Research into carbon frames. (1985)
* The rigid aereodynamic helmet. (1985)
* Hexagonal profile bars. (1986)
* The first bike with fluorescent paintwork (the Multifluo). (1986)
* Cork Ribbon handlebar tape. (1987)
* The first Italian "hybrid" city/MTB (the Passatore). (1989)
* The Laser receives the "Compasso D'Oro" award. (1991)
* The Grammo concept stems. (1983)
THE HISTORY OF RAMPICHINO
California 1978: Invented in San Francisco by Gary Fisher, it's
called the mountain bike. Italy 1985: Re-invented in Milan by
Antonio Colombo, it's called Rampichino. Born as a competition
machine for a few enthusiasts, the mountain bike is re-born with
us as a new sport for all. That's history. With the ecological
elegance of its woodland green colour, and backed up by the
magazine Airone, the Rampichino was the very first Italian MTB and
trailblazer for all the others, and its name has become a byword
in the Italian language. Ten years have passed: Today Cinelli,
sensitive to the Italian language. Ten years have passed: Today
Cinelli, sensitive to the mood of its fans, celebrates the
anniversary.Again on the wings of Airone ("The Heron")
magazine,the Rampichino 10 arrives. It's not just a remake, but
once again it's the "bike that didn't exist". In two ways: Firstly
because it's the off-road touring bike for the refined and mature
user, based on a new leisure ratherthan racing concept, but with
10 years of racing experience behind it. Secondly, because there
will be a junior version with the same components as the adult
version, and the same light and easy to use controls, ushering in
a new cycling era, one in which children too will have an agile
and reliable machine, or in other words, a safe one. To reinforce
this concept, the Rampichino 10 helmet is being to launched, to
encourage, we hope, the use of helmets on a regular basis, and not
just for racing. So we started with nostalgia,and end up in the
future. In the line with the Airone-Rampichino philosophy.
**
THE RACING LEGEND.
If Cino Cinelli hadn't been first and foremost a great cyclist, as
well as being a skilled craftsman, we would probably never have had
a Cinelli bicycle. Perhaps he would have been quite happy to have
his saddles and handlebars tried out by customers and friends,
framebuilders or other cyclists. But old Cino couldn't rest easy
till he'd seen the component fitted to one of his own machines. In
his mind, the bicycle was a total project, requiring overall
control. So it was that he employed an expert framebuilder, whose
job it was to produce prototypes for testing. In time, and by
special request, the prototype could become a limited-run series
for a lucky few enthusiasts. Our bicycles are still created the
same way today. Designed around a new Cinelli stem, or tailored
from a new set of Columbus tubes, which deserve this treatment.
And so this year sees the birth of Nautilus, made to exploit fully
the exceptional characteristics of Nemo, the latest generation of
Columbus tubes, featuring miniaturised dropouts and cable guides,
and reperesenting, needless to say, the state-of-the-art in
superlight competition machines.
**
THE INVENTION OF THE LASER
For 15 years, the laser project has been the proving ground for
the application of new technologies to the competition bicycle,
thereby continuing the best Cinelli traditions. Under the Laser
name, we have introduced many technical innovations which have
become part of the common property of cycling. Our research and,
occasionally, our willingness to take risks, have been rewarned by
an unequalled series of acknowledgements in the field of
competition. The Laser has been selected as the official machine
of 9 of the most important national teams, and has won 28 Olympic
and World Championship gold medals, in all kinds of event. A bike
which has been "rationalised" as a function of its performance,
but which remains faithful to the basic lines of its frame,
presented today in an even neater and more essential form. For
these reasons, the Laser won a different kind of prize in 1991,
the Compasso d'oro, highest italian award for industrial design,
and remains the only bicycle ever to have been so awarded.
**
NAUTILUS
A jewel of a bike, entirely TIG welded to enhance the qualities of
the Columbus Nemo frameset (as light as titanium, but as strong as
steel, with a zone butled system for a total frame weight of 1,350g
). No detail has been left unmodified: arched cable guides,
lightened bottom bracket, reinforced head tube, cast seatlug and
dropouts. The components are strictly Campagnolo Record with Shamal
wheels. Colour: Nautilus Copper Soft Touch.
**
GENIUS STRADA
Frame built using fillet brazing on Genius tubes with ultra-short
butting, specifically designed by Columbus for TIG welding. The
secret of this unusual combination lies in the brazing material, a
special alloy with high silver content, with a very low melting
point, which allows the tubes to be joined without overheating them
and changing their mechanical characteristics. The results are
superb. The elements blend seamlessly into each other, achieving
the best distribution of stresses over the structure, and
satisfying the most refined eye. A classic examples of how, by
looking for the solution to technical highest quality: Campagnolo
Record groupset, San Marco saddle with titanium structure, Cinelli
Grammo titanium stem. The range of colours is exclusive: Black
Night Soft Touch, Nautilus Copper Soft Touch, China Blue soft
Touch.
**
NEW SUPERCORSA
True to itself since 1948, this is the classic Cinelli bicycle that
made the name famous all over the world, and continues to be the
most sought after by enthusiasts, who find it continually updated
in materials and components. The current version features a frame
built with the new lightened Columbus Neuron tubes, and it's
equipped with the Campagnolo Chorus Ergopower groupset, and
Campagnolo Mexico rims for lightweight HP tyres. Colours: Pearl
White, Champagne Rose', Golden Moon, Quicksilver, Titan Grey,
Silver Pine, Metallic Cinnamon, Classic Bordeaux, Laser Azure,
China Blue, BMW, Night Blue, Cyclamen Violet, Loden Green, Black
Tie, Curry Yellow, Ferrari Red.
**
UNICA
The oversize tubes and the new Columbus Brain frameset with
lightened chainstays make this an innovative frame. The better
informed riders alredy know that this means light weight, rigidity
and precision riding. The components are up to the job: Campagnolo
Veloce Ergopower groupset, Cinelli XA stem, Cinelli 64 bars. But
the really new feature is the performance, previously reserved for
professionals. Colours: China Blue, Ferrari Red.
**
PROXIMA
An excellent and innovative "entry level" machine. Frame and forks
made with Columbus Thron tubes, Cinelli stem and bars, Campagnolo
Mirage Ergopower Groupset, Cinelli class, from the first turn of
the pedals. Colour range: China Blue, Ferrari red.
**
PROXIMA G.F.
Designed for long distances. The triple chainset gives wide range
gears to tackle the hardest climb. The frame is build with
Columbus Thron tubes and equipped with the Campagnolo Mirage
triple groupset and Cinelli bars and stem. Colours: China Blue,
Ferrari Red.
**
CAPITANO NEMO
Built with the Columbus Nemo framest, wich introduces the "zone
butted system" concept, giving lightness equal to that of titanium
(frame weight 1,420g) with all the strenght of steel. A
masterpiece of "handcrafted technology" in the choice of
components: Cook Bros cranks, PMP titanium seatpost, Paul brakes
and levers. Every single detail of this bike has been redesigned
and lightened, from the inverted "X" brake bridge to the seat post
clamp, from the arched cableguides to the forged dropouts. The
highly coveted carbon Specialised Rock Shox Judy XL fork is
titled. For the new technological navigators. Colour: Hard Touch
Nautilus Copper.
**
GENIUS MACHINE
The latest interpretation of the "Machine" concept, which since
1988 has brought together the best of the latest mountain bike
components and a state of the art frame in terms of both the
materials used and the construction techniques and frame
geometries. This new Machine is entirely handbuilt, using the new
asymetrically reinforced Columbus Genius tubes. The frame is
further distinguished by the S-shaped rear stays, the internal gear
cable run in the seat stay and the inverted "X" brake bridge. The
highest level components are used: Shimano Deore XT groupset, Grip
Shift X-Ray gear controls, Grammo Ahead Stem, Mavic SUP rims,
Bontrager titanium saddle, Trail Bikes Velociraptor Wilderness
tyres, PMP titanium seatpost. Geometry (18" size): seat angle 73=B0,
head angle 70=B030', chain stay length 423mm, rake 43mm. Colour:
Black Tie Hard Touch.
**
GENIUS SOFT MACHINE
Version with carbon and titanium Rock Shox Judy CX sprung forks. A
refined and efficient match, which enhanced this machine's
performance, without affecting its record breaking lightness.
Geometry (18" size): seat angle 73=B0, head angle 70=B030', chain stay
length 423mm, rake 43mm. Colour: Black Tie Hard Touch.
**
ARGENTO VIVO
Frame built with the ultra-new Columbus Cyber Nivacrom tubes with
S-shaped rear stays, and Rock Shox Quadra 5 sprung forks,
personalised for Cinelli. Shimano Deore LX components, while super
light top quality accessories like the Grip Shift controls,Tioga
Psycho 2 tyres, 3T Forge Ahead stem, and 3T Procrome bars complete
the project of this competition machine. Unsprung version with
Columbus Cyber forks also available. Geometry (18" size): seat
angle 73=B0, head angle 70=B030, chain stay length 423mm, rake 43mm.
Colour: Argento Vivo Hard Touch.
**
STRATOCASTER
Racing geometry with Green Line Custom sprung forks, and "full
optional" components of the type usually used on bikes in a higher
bracket, (Columbus Thron tubes, Shimano STX groupset with Grip
Shift gearshifters, 3T Extreme bars, 3T Procrome stem, Bontrager
saddle, Tom Ritchey tyres), make it light, the lightest in its
category. The handmade TIG welded frame is painted with the
multilayer Hardmat process, and it is also available with an
unsprung fork with Columbus Thron forkblades. Geometry (18" size):
seat angle 73=B0, head angle 70=B030', chain stay length 423mm, rake
43mm. Colour: Saffron Hard Touch, Violet Blue Hard Touch.
**
RAMPICHINO 10
Back off the road after 10 years, but it's not a remake. Once
again, it's "the bike that hadn't been thought of ". A high quality
off-road tourer, not a racer, but based on ten years of racing
experience. Green Line Custom sprung torks, Royal elastomer saddle
and Tom Ritchey Z Max tyres with knobby treads developed for this
bike. A new concept mountain bike, for a cultured and evolved
public. Frame built with Columbus Thron tubes, Shimano STX
groupset, Geometry (18" size): seat angle 73=B0, head angle 70=B030',
chain stay length 423mm, rake 43mm. Colour: Rampichino Green Hard
Touch.
**
RAMPICHINO 10 JUNIOR
At last, a "real" mountain bike for the younger rider, with all
the performance, fun and safety of a group-up machine. It could
only be Cinelli Rampichino: superlight frame built with Columbus
Cromoly tubes, sprung fork, 18 speeds, with smooth controls and
firm braking. Built with the same techniques used for adult
competition machines. We'll say it again, at last! Colour: Yellow
Hard Touch.
**
QUO VADIS ?
A new concept hybrid, road oriented and designed for sports turing
(fast journeys with light loads). Racing bars and sprung forks, to
make the most of the road, but free to leave it and find your own
route. Frame built with Columbus Thron tubes, Campagnolo Mirage
triple, Shimano STX brakes, Tioga tyres. Colour: SPQR Red Hard
Touch.
**
PASSATORE
An all-italian interpretation of the hybrid bike, for road or
light off-road use. Frame TIG welded with Columbus Thron tubing,
S-shaped rear stays, TIG welded fork with Columbus Thron blades,
Hangers, cable guides, dropouts and "tiddly-bits" hand brased in
the best italian racing frame tradition, which also influences the
frame geometry choices. Geometry (19"size): seat angle 73=B030',
head angle 71=B0, chain stay length 423mm, rake 43mm. Colour:
SilverPine.
**
CYBERNAUT
A fully equipped city bike. Classic lugged and brazed
construction, relaxed angles for greater comfort, Columbus
Cybernaut tubing with S-shaped rear stays. All top level
components: Shimano STX groupset, Grip shift gear shifter, Cinelli
Quo Vadis bars in 7000 alloy, Esge mudguards and alloy rack,
halogen lights with dynamo. Geometry: seat angle 72=B030', chain
stay length 440mm, rake 45mm, Colour: Virtual Yellow.
There are new WWW sites for both Cinelli (in English)
http://www.cinelli.it/cinelli/engl.htm
and Columbus (in Italian - English Coming)
http://www.cinelli.it/columbus/home.htm