Tag: After race

There was a story in the Old Bike Australia Magazine the other month, in it was a write up by Bill Guthrie who was in Team Australia (with whom I was riding). Bill was riding an old Lambretta C model race replica (number 21) which unfortunately broke and so he had the unenviable job of having to watch the race from the support van for the remaining 4 days.

Luckily for us he made some pretty good notes about the race and given he is a professional photographer took some bloody good pics. I will stick a copy of the article here for you all to read about.

I will also be updating the site with some more pics from the 2010 race from some of the pro-photographers that follow the race, there are some good ones.

Lastly, Renato (my father who was also in Team Australia in 2010 – number 22 in the 2010 MITA) will be in this years Milan – Taranto again (this will be his 4th in a row). Renato will hopefully work out how to post on this blog with his iPad over the next month and can keep you all up to date on the ins and out of the race like I did last year. Keep tuned!

Bet you thought you had heard the last of me? Well no, you haven’t.

Keep in mind that the initial posts I made were while on the ralley (well except for days 4, 5 and 6 but whoes counting).

I am going to review the comments, delve deep into my memories and try to add to and elaborate on some of the events now that I have started work again which brings with it the wish of doing something else.

Updates to come!!

While in milan we thought we should take advantage of the alps at our door step and attempt an Alps pass so we chose the Stelvio pass.

I saw this on top gear one time and thought it looked like fun so on Tuesday 13th July we but Renatos scooter and my bike in the back of the van and drove the 200 odd km to Bormio which is where the pass starts.

My bike wasn’t running very well, just missing a bit at the bottom end of the rev range but it was still rideable so off we went.

Hairpin after hairpin up and up till the 34 degree drifted down as we started passing ice by the road side melting in the sun.

Finally we arrived at stelvio 2800m (about 9000 ft) above sea level.

It was really cold up there with no trees, had a hot dog (€5!) then back down, slowly the rain cleared and it got warmer till into Bormio and it hot one more.

The drive home seemed to take longer than the drive there passing through many tunnels through the maintains as we went, some were 3km long!

Exhausted again we arrived back in Milan at about 8:30pm.