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Bike4Show - NE

Milan, Italy, November 8-11, 2007

Photos

Race 4 - November 11:

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Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net

• Bettini heads into the scrum in the Madison on the final night
• Angelo Ciccone / Fabio Masotti, Bettini / Villa and Pozzato / Ballan made up the final podium
• Marco Villa and Paolo Bettini easily took the overall victory in Milan
• Bettini takes the sprint
• Villa dives into the action with a push from Bettini
• World Champ Paolo Bettini in action on the portable velodrome in Milan

Race 3 - November 10:

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• Filippo Pozzato and Alessandro Ballan (Daihatsu) during the night's racing.
• Filippo Pozzato and Alessandro Ballan (Daihatsu) won the Americana 30 minutes + 3 laps race.
• Michael Rasmussen (centre) in strange company – with Davide Cassani (r), who spotted the rider in Italy when he was supposed to be in Mexico. Alessandro Ballan (l).
• World Road Champion Paolo Bettini (Expo 2015) compares battle scars.
• The action got a little too hot on the third night.
• As far as test dummies go...
• ...this one didn't hold up too well.

Race 2 - November 9:

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• World Road Race Champion Paolo Bettini gives former World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss a few tips on riding the boards.
• Bettini and Bayliss take a warm-up round the 200-metre temporary velodrome constructed specially for the EICMA trade show.
• Bettini paces Bayliss round the banking.
• Troy Bayliss fires the starting gun to get racing underway.
• Paolo Bettini still has some late season speed, beating Filippo Pozzato to win the derny race.
• The addition of exhibition track racing has spiced up this year's EICMA show.

Race 1 - November 8:

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• Alessandro Ballan and Filippo Pozzato in the thick of the action
• Alberto Ongarato and Alessandro Bertolini practice an exchange
• World Champ Paolo Bettini greets the crowds
• Bettini was partnered with track ace Marco Villa
• Baldato in the wrong position , having failed to keep the rubber side down.
• Fabio Baldato and Danilo Napolitano have a little whoopsie-daisy during an exchange
• Fabio Masotti and Angelo Ciccone look like they've done this before
• Giairo Ermeti and Christian Murro don't quite have the most efficient technique
• The field is strung out down the home stretch in Milan
• The steep banking of the temporary track at the EICMA show
• The derny race is a popular exhibition event
• Popovych relaxes between events
• Yaroslav Popovych shows his skills with Volodymyr Zagorodniy
• Ivan Quaranta and Gianpaolo Biolo clad in black
• Fabio Sabatini and Ongarato switch places