SCANUPPIA SIIIIIIIIII tamed the ascent .... D'Europa harder Life is a flight, strong emotions, feelings ride "the ride", today I had a flight into the infinity of the universe! the magic of the effort has invaded my soul.
November 20, 2010 date to remember, ascent of "Scanuppia" Besenello in Trento. The only climb that made me "cry" ........... it's time to pay the bill, the first time with the bike ride I had it almost all on foot without shoes. ...!!!! then I always deferred the appointment.
The hardest climb in Europe ..... not impossible to do, is not crazy ...... just "inhuman" it takes a great desire to go beyond physical and mental fatigue, are now ready "BAD" to the right point load and trained !!!!!
Bike MTB 29 with studded tires, Report 22/32, gps that will capture everything and then transfer it to those who want to try this "crazy" up.
Gold 6.30 start from home, I and my friend Claudio (everything outside climber ....) Sky gray but no rain!! that puts the weather will not rain until 12 am but ... we'll see! At 8.30 we are at the point of departure that Mori is 20 km from Besenello, will be along my beloved bike to warm up a bit and then go up !!!!! Feelings to one thousand emotions intersect in my mind .... the VR, V. is the first thought ... all lived with thousands of stray souls and revenge with "scanuppia," we get to Rovereto , Bicigrill names here and there the monster, a mountain demolished by a stone quarry and a rock wall on the side with a cemented road that climbs up into the sky.
Besenello, my mind remembers well the anonymous street leading to the quarry, we are under, four photos, greeting Claudio that will take it easy, I walk! and so we shall head towards the infinite, are gasatissimo ..... that's good to be here, to us scanuppia!!
After the bridge before the haunting ramp here are discouraging signs offering: forbidden to cyclists, only residents with 4x4 or tractor and a good sign for slope 45% !!!!!
I know already ..... meters x meters as the other Once I made it almost all on foot.
sharp bend to the right, Noooooo.
.... how wonderful!! remain unarmed party suffered very bad and 25% for a mile and a half does not give an inch ... or two tears of 50 meters at 31%. Parto moltooo cautious leaving some margin to the lungs, it is because the problem here is that by breathing he never gives up on and I'm determined to never stop breathing x, we'll see!! speed four times the tipping, road and wet leaves make the climb even more difficult, but my desire and nailed the wheels do their dirty work, I go straight up like a rocket I never try to zigzag, leg holds even if guys ..... Fear is the speedometer is clear 25 / 26%, the first km did get to the point where the bike ride I had to give up even a notch because of that strength to pull on the pedals I had broken, but I would not be succeeded in, here I remember that part of a piece of FEAR, sharp bend to the right, I would die ..... you're at the limit desperate to give up a bit and you find yourself in front of a wall climbing!! Okay let's try .... I do not want to put my foot down rather than tilting bike from 4 hours to 3 step I try to go up more slowly as I can, but always without zigzagging, saddle planted between the buttocks and the search for less and less slippery !! 31% too hard .... fuck by George, I start screaming and I come out without falling, thank goodness the way back to the 25% we can "breathe" leg already over, according km sharp bend to the left and vaiiii drittone more than 25%, 3 / 4 times do not give up, but some slight crush not slide on the side chapels of the cross mark the miles .... certainly could not be put in a better place!! the bike rears up every now and even though they threw everything forward.
One kilometer of illusion to 20% and starts again with 25%, by the way nice compact becomes broken concrete, dirt, full of pine branches, I find a resident who fumbles in the garden, leads me "to go from great, opens after a little '100 meters e. .... 100 meters is a true 13% level seems a strange feeling .... the legs are incredulous they can not ride, I struggle more on that .... I ended drittoni, aaaaa less evil that returns 25% more you go up the more difficult it is to keep the balance, I'm tired and I want to give up her fuck .... I hope always hangs on every bend .... but the speedometer never goes below 20%, 5 km begins to hurt the left buttock, Giorgio spring demolish ... nooo you never, ever, I find two hunters who encourage me, "the time is up" more and more road dirty branches in the road I have to keep zigzagging to ride on the "clean", go with the spikes .... smart move, last drittone 1550 down there I see the bar, he begins a deadly cobblestone BASTAAAAAA .... I WANT SPRING, are "dead" 50 meters, 30 meters, 10 meters, SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII .... MI 'Butt GROUND AND I' begins to cry .... SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII,
is made TOO BIG, BEAUTIFUL
SSIM, never so well on climbs, and tamed SCANUPPIA vaiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
I put down the bike pass the bar and finish the last meters of uphill walking, impossible to do on a bike, a sprinkling of snow had made the cobbles slippery too, how nice ..... Mother Nature in all its glory, leaving "natural" that magic moment, slowly return the bar and while I dress for the descent eat something.
My mind goes to Claudio who knows if he has to live "scanuppia"! I get off co
n prudence, after 4 km geese beautiful smile that drives the bike!! I said, "but as you go ... caz bike, can barely walk," compliments, take some pictures and beaten down, I start to get cold, I'm all sweaty and the weather is cold, 20 km to return to the machine to warm up a bit 'and dispose of some' of lactic acid accumulated SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.
Scanuppia in figures: Quote
Departure Arrival altitude 220 km
1640 1420 Total Total Difference 7
max slope 31% Slope Minimum 10% largest end time 1 hour and 45 minutes
starting temperature 10 degrees temperature reaches 2 degrees
used mtb 29 inch Waist 22/32 reports a 32 studded tires cicrocross
total bike weight 15 kg weight Musseu tot. parts down with 80 kg x