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Croce d’Aune, first climb in this years Giro!

This year’s 100th anniversary Giro d’Italia visits some of the great Italian cities, including Feltre (the home town of Castelli) which will be hosting the Castelli24h race on June 12-13. Tomorrow, the Giro will hit the first mountains with Croce d’Aune as the first climb. You may recognize this as the name of a Campagnolo component group in the late 1980s. This is due to the fact that it was at the top of this very pass that Tullio Campagnolo got the idea of the quick-release skewer. He was competing in a springtime race in the 1930s that included the Passo Croce d’Aune. At the time, riders had single-speed bikes with a cog on either side of the rear wheel of different sizes. They rode up the passes with the larger cog and flipped the wheel around at the top to take advantage of the smaller cog for the descent. On this fateful day, it was snowing and cold. Tullio’s hands were too frozen to unscrew the wing nuts on the rear wheel. As a solution to this problem, he invented the quick-release skewer. Its pretty much an average Giro stage with great rolling hills from Padova to Maser before ...

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