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22/09/2026

Alpi, bici, foto, amici.
Natura, cultura, arsura.
Strade, avventure, storie.
Ci sono tutte le premesse per un bel pomeriggio al insieme a
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12/09/2026

THE EARTH IS FLAT, sort of

Easy, but not too easy: connecting the obvious highlights isn't hard. There's usually only one way to the top, you just add dots to the map.

What was missing was everything in between. The beauty of a summit is revealed by what comes before it and what comes after: all the "average" roads, not tolerated as filler, but chosen on purpose by someone who actually lives here.
It's exactly like photography: a good subject isn't enough on its own. You still have to work the rest, light, background, lines, and composition.
We built this route around a few key ideas. Rhythm, first. Alpine climbs and descents are long and technical enough already, so there's no need to make the transitions cruel. If anything, those stretches are there to catch your breath, digest the effort you just made, and prepare for the next one. There's no point in making it miserable.
Second, logistics and flexibility. You can jump on the route almost anywhere, and train stations along the valley make access simple. The long climbs mean you can do one peak a day, or two, or three, whatever fits your pace. Plus, there's resupply at the bottom of every ascent. We didn't want to avoid civilization on principle. As we said, we want riders to actually experience the valleys by meeting the people who live in them.
Finally, the sense of vertigo. The route loops roughly around Mt. Chaberton, and you'll spend most of your time staring at its flat summit from every angle. From almost every peak, you can look out and spot two climbs already behind you, and two more waiting ahead. The Galleria dei Saraceni from Monti della Luna, Sommeiller from the Granon, Galibier from the lakes, Moncenis from the Ciantiplagna, and so many others along the way. An astonishing intersection of lines.

That's the real thrill of it: half the magic is looking back at how far you've come, the other half is looking forward at what's left.
None of it looks flat from up there. Not even the flat parts.
See for yourself, the route is live now on komoot: https://tinyurl.com/zpa9fj22

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23/08/2026

Ultimo BTS dalla remota Francia alla fine di . Una cosa buona, una cosa da migliorare, e ora si torna a casa. Grazie a per la testa e il braccio, ora torniamo alle nostre rispettive faccende ma chi lo sa, questa cosa dei dietro le quinte potrebbe diventare un'altra maniera di parlare del mio lavoro, complementare agli articoli (con cui sono decisamente più a mio agio) su cicloreporter.com

Che dici? Vogliamo parlare ancora di corse sotto la grandine, incontri felici, parcheggi creativi, sveglie ogni 30m alle2 di notte, incontri fortunati, occhi fissi sul tracker, algoritmi caserecci per capire dove trovare i ciclisti, incontri commoventi, pasti indegni oppure indimenticabili, compagnia straordinaria, storie tristi, paradossali, grandi, piccole?

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22/08/2026

Fupri fuoco! Un altro dietro le quinte, senza pensarci troppo. Sesto e ultimo giorno di per le valli francesi.
Grazie a Gabri complice e artefice di questo cortissimometraggio

22/08/2026

Bqckstage numero 3 (credo) di . Pioggia e checkpoint a sorpresa

02/08/2026

As long as we were drawing lines on the map, at our homes, or we were having a drink with our friends, we called it — half-joking — "the bikepacking we needed, not the one we deserved."
Then, reality happened.

Turns out there was only one name left standing. Simple, honest, no-nonsense. For a route that is, itself, honest and no-nonsense, yet never simple.

Last month, we surveyed the route with dear (and patient) friends - 400km, 14,000m of climbing, and an hour and a half of pushing a bike uphill for a good reason – “I'd tell you where to go, if this place weren't so beautiful”, in Stefano’s words.

Anyone can string together the greatest hits of the Alps: I mean, military roads and trails to the peak, there aren’t so many. But what about the in-between? Thanks to an unreasonable number of scouting trips, getting from one big view to the next is neither a boring transfer nor a needlessly brutal one. Balance was one of the principles we built the route upon. Big climbs, small hidden treasures.

One more piece of wishful thinking that turned out real? Climb high enough around here and you can usually see the summit before this one, and the one waiting after — sometimes even where you started, four days back. At any moment, you know what’s around you. Either highly satisfying or slightly unsettling, depending on how your legs feel that day.

More (much more!) on all that another time — we don't want to peak too early.

𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝘀. Stop.

Marco (un)sordo_a_pedali Giuseppe Cyclovagabond Stefano Scapitta

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01/08/2026

On Col de la Loze, during , a rider I've known since 2024 told me: "In Mangart you said, 'goodbye, see you in France in a few days'. These last days I didn't feel like riding at all. You gave me a reason to climb up here."
Then Stefano aka 🦑 's recent post — "where are you placing your community-building efforts?" — made it click: this emotional moment and a long-term reflection clashed. Community is something I think about a lot in relation to my job, and the very topic of my PhD too (different context and method, but still).

There is a huge paradox in ultracycling. By definition, it's unsupported: no outside interference, ideally a solitary effort. Yet almost every rider I've met (myself included) signs up either pushed by community, or in search of one. The French language captures this beautifully: it's a 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚 / 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚 journey.

Year after year, I keep meeting the same riders. I stay in touch with them, I know their habits, whether they scratched in a recent event. Increasingly, they thank me for being there, more than for the pictures — those come anyway.

As a photographer, I'm one of the very few people every rider will meet on the road. One after another, they meet me, we talk, they move on. However indirect, I am a connection point. That's exactly how community grows: we ride alone, yet we know others are doing exactly the same crazy thing, at the same moment. (nerd flag UP - this is Anderson’s intuition in his Imagined Communities, 1983).

To answer Stefano's question: I've come to think my job isn't "community building." It's community caregiving. I can't build this community, but I can nurture it, and I try to do that as well as I can.

This paradox opens up other questions too: If many riders want more competition (see debate about more rules, ), just as many ride for the adventure and the people they meet. As one of them put it: "If I can't interact with locals and other riders, why should I ride at all?"

This reflection is still very much in progress, and I’d love to hear voices of you all. But if you're curious about these topics, the journal on my website might be a corner to explore.

23/07/2026

2 years covering VIA, which starts tomorrow for the third time.
Zero idea what we were doing half the time with Francesco Gozzelino and Marco Rimondi , the Italian media team.

Crashing drones. Sleeping in legal(ish) spots. Interviewing riders on random spots. Eating whatever, whenever. Looking like actual stalkers waiting outside a garage at 5am. Chasing, hunting, losing, finding, waiting for, stumbling upon riders. Cursing with the tracking. _Track, drive, shoot, repeat._ Van life while covering an ultra is one of a kind.

This year we won't be the ones popping out of a bush with a camera while you ride. No chasing you up a mountain for "just one more shot" costing us 2hours we don’t have. No van parked somewhere it shouldn't be.

Gonna feel weird not being out there.

Thanks for putting up with us — best wishes to all the chapter III riders, and see some of you out on other races this season!

22/07/2026

Camping, family, friends, april 25th celebration (bonus: a couple supercool projects with Olé Tapas Bar RITMO Tuscany Bike Festival .

Great vacation time, just not in real time but whatever

26/06/2026

"The bikepacking we need but don't deserve", aka TBWBDD- A random bunch of photos for a random group of bikepackers that will soon start a 5-days journey of some random high-altitude alpine roads. This is what TBWBDD is, or should be.
It'll take us 400km between Val di Susa and the Hautes Alpes, with 14,000m of elevation gain.
BUT since there are 5 of us, if my math is right, that means 80km and only 2,800m of elevation each. Right?

Gigi Luigi Grossi – route designer and photographer. His beard is smiling because he's very close to a mountain, even if just a TV screen.
Edo – photographer, and nothing else. He's smiling, but the freezing cold makes his face frozen.
Marco Marco (un)sordo_a_pedali – ultracycling racer. He's laughing in the pic because he doesn't suspect how slow he will be riding with us.
Giuseppe Giuseppe Cyclovagabond – ultra-experienced traveler. He's smiling, but the sun in the face makes him look angry.
Stefano Stefano Scapitta another ultra-experienced traveler, but not the same guy. He's smiling because he's on a regional train, his favorite sport.

Wait, don't we need a mechanic?
Don't count on me.

Oh, their very different bikes are also smiling, thinking of what's to come.

If you're in the area, feel 100% welcome to join us for one or more days. Start in Salbertrand on Monday morning the 29th, heading to Pramand-Jafferau.

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