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Giro d’Italia Virtual + Donation to Italian Red Cross

The Giro d’Italia Virtual, starting this weekend, will give amateurs and stars of the past and present a chance to ride together (virtually) on sections of this year’s Giro route from the comfort of the interactive smart trainers, via GPX files from Garmin Connect uploaded to their bike computers. The first stage, which can be completed between April 18 and 21, is a 32.1km section of the 2020 Giro d’Italia stage 10 route. From there, riders will take on stages 12, 16, 17, 18, 20, and 21, with the event concluding on May 10. Discover more and sign up!   Castelli will also be actively participating in the worthy fundraising initiative throughout the entire Giro Virtual. As an official supplier of the Giro d’Italia, Castelli will donate 5 euros to the Italian Red Cross for each #Giro102 Race Jersey purchased through the Castelli-cycling.com website. Donating is easy: just use the code GiroXCRI at check-out and, in addition to obtaining a 50% discount on the jersey purchase, you’ll confirm your donation. Don’t miss this opportunity to wear the right outfit for the occasion!  

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CASTELLI UNVEILS THE 2020 GIRO D’ITALIA JERSEYS

With 102 years of history behind it, the Rosa 103 jersey of the Giro d’Italia looks clearly toward the future. Castelli’s relentless drive to innovate brings revolutionary advances in terms of performance, design and environmental impact. For the first time ever in a Grand Tour, the leaders’ jerseys will be made with fabrics that use recycled yarns, produced by the well-known textile manufacturer Sitip SpA. The recycling is certified in accordance with the Global Recycled Standard, and the fabrics with recycled polyester fibers will be used not only for the jerseys worn in the race but also for the official replicas of the Castelli leaders’ jerseys. Thanks to Sitip’s expertise, these recycled fabrics will have the same weight, elasticity and moisture management capabilities as the fabrics used in edition 102.To enhance performance, Castelli has integrated a number holder into the jersey pockets, which eliminates the need to use pins to attach the race numbers as has been the traditional practice until now. The transparent cover holds the race numbers securely in place and improves the aerodynamics on the lower back, giving an extra boost to the jersey wearer. The Castelli design touches are unmistakable in the new graphic that honors ...

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[ENG] Giro d’Italia #specialjerseyaward: Giro volunteers

The last yersey – the one dedicated to stage 20 of this Giro d’Italia – is awarded today. Not because we forgot our home stage, but because we wanted to wait until the very moment we are about to ride the same route on the Sportful Dolomiti Race tomorrow. And to thank everyone who made it possible. Among all the distinctive features of cycling, the one that totally differentiates it from most other sports — and that causes cycling fans to proudly declare that following cycling is never just a matter of sport alone — is the complete overlap between bike races and the real world they pass through. Bike races are not held in places dedicated exclusively to them. There is no separation between the playing field of cycling and the cities where men and women live, the fields they cultivate, the mountains that reinvigorate them. By choosing the locations of everyday life as its natural setting, cycling borrows their characteristics, so that the beauty of a church, the gracefulness of a landscape or the majesty of a mountain become an integral part of the race itself, the essence of its story and its history. Of course, the intrusion ...

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[ENG] Giro d’Italia #specialjerseyaward: Chad Haga

Cycling is a group sport: for more than half the time, you ride all together, side by side, allowing plenty of opportunity to build relationships. The “group” is even a social set, a community that keeps all the professional riders together. During a Grand Tour, though, there are days when the group does not exist: in the time trials. Stages to be faced alone, with no one to talk to except the race radio, which is useless anyway: in a time trial you ride all out and have no breath left for talking. Alone, listening only to your own legs, or at most to a few time splits. Alone, thinking, because even when you’re at maximum effort your mind doesn’t stop. You concentrate, yes, but somehow it continues to wander, or rather it pursues precisely those thoughts that help you concentrate more, that converge on the same goal. Great time trialists are not only those who know how to push hard gears for a long time but, above all, those who know how to better focus their thoughts. Adam Hansen, an Australian rouleur and Grand Tour expert, says that during time trials you never stop thinking: in his case, about ...

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[ita] L’Amore infinito è anche quello del Giro – Verona la città degli innamorati

Pensi a Verona e subito la associ agli innamorati. E l’amore infinito è anche quello del Giro d’Italia per la città veneta famosa per Romeo e Giulietta, che per la quarta volta chiuderà le tre settimane di passione rosa che hanno pervaso tutto il Belpaese. Non sarà una tappa banale perché si correrà contro il tempo, come avvenne per la prima volta nel 1981, quando il norvegese Knut Knudsen fu il vincitore di giornata, mentre le grandi celebrazioni furono tutte per Giovanni Battaglin che, dopo aver trionfato il 10 maggio alla Vuelta di Spagna, il 7 giugno si aggiudicò il secondo Grande Giro consecutivo in poche settimane. Dopo quella magica primavera, il veneto non riuscì mai più a salire sul podio in nessuna delle tre corse a tappe più celebri. Un finale thrilling ci fu, invece, nel 1984, con l’Arena di Verona che esplose per la splendida rimonta di Francesco Moser. Sul suo bolide con le ruote lenticolari, il fuoriclasse trentino riuscì a recuperare tutto lo svantaggio che lo separava dal tenace Laurent Fignon (stroncato nel 2010 da un tumore al pancreas) e a rifilargli altri 63 secondi (1’03”), conquistando quello che sarebbe stato il suo unico Giro d’Italia. Nella ...

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