“No, I don’t come by bike, see you up to Ghisallo, I get in the car …”. The first time I met Guido Rubinoyears ago on the occasion of a test reserved for the press, for the test of a cyclocomputer I must admit that it was not a first time as applause. It rained, was cold and then a Roman who lives and works in Varese and does not pedal … boh. But then it went better. Much better. Also because, in front of a flask of Chianti and a plate of pappardelle with the wild boar on the eve of a heroic in good hundred, it is difficult not to be understood.

Guido Rubino is one of the most authoritative Italian voices of cycling dissemination Technique, his the reference site Cyclinside.it, but above all he is a lover of bike and cycling, a matter he speaks willingly and of whom (fortunately) he writes. His latest book “The racing bike” published by Hoepli in which the bike the bike the competition is told and explained in every component is recently in the bookstore but there are also chapters dedicated to the recent phenomenon of the Gravel, which is erroneously thought of as a derivative of the cyclocross, to the track bike, to the time trial bike with chariome with chapters dedicated to the new high-quality e-bikes and a disamination with a modern eye of the revival of the Vintage bikes, re -emerged by the cellars mainly thanks to the phenomenon of heroic and its various cyclostoric derivations.

In 250 pages, the “most efficient means ever devised by humanity to move” is examined. It starts from the frame and its materials, the differences between geometries and their meaning, the components, the electronics, the aspects of the UCI regulation that requires minimal standards to be respected, starting from the overall weight that must be not less than 6.8 kg for safety reasons, moved on to the sense of modern disk brakes, born not to overheat the carbon circles with the traditional -and very efficient brakes are explained. caliber. “With this book – explains Rubino to the Adnkronos- I try to explain particularity and secrets to bring it back to an comprehensibility that must be inherent in each bicycle. This is this that makes you feel autonomous and free in the saddle, at any level of pedaling, race or walking”. And then the contribution that sport gave to the evolution of this means: “Originally the bicycle was only one and the first games with friends to see who went faster they were carried out with the only type available then, the primigenium half we call” walking “- writes Rubino- from those first experiences to research, gradually more and more fanatic, of the three fundamental elements for the performance, or lightness, smoothness and braking capacity, modern that are real engineering works “