For the next three years it will be the Pavia-Sanremo As has already been the Abbiategrasso-attest that a little strange sounds but it is not a scandal if we consider the road that has now taken the modern cycling that leads it where there are sponsors and money. And in any case in the rooms of Palazzo Marino do not tear the clothes also because as long as the “brand”, as they say today, remains (and we would miss) Milan-Sanremo for the Milanese municipality changes little … but cycling is a separate world, linked to places, traditions, small symbols that make history and in a certain sense they retain it over time even if, it must be said, it applies to us but it is valid for everyone, just think that the Roubaix is ​​now the way from Paris has it forgotten for years. Without making the romantics too much, however, the Milan-attempt will start from Pavia is a “piece” of history that is erased, a logical consequence of the business laws to which obviously sport does not escape that they have accustomed us almost to everything: to laps that start of Norway, to Tour de France who will start from Florence, in world courses on the streets of the sheikhs without history and without public. But some reflection can be done. Milan in recent years on the bicycle has invested a lot by making it a real political battle. Cycle paths, limited traffic areas until the last challenge of doing everything possible for a city from 2024 to 30 hours. In short, the “bike in the center” that, beyond how one can think of it, is a modern, sustainable choice, the direction that many other metropolises have already taken for years. But the “bike in the center” cannot be only a political battle, too often ideological, which leads to take sides with those who ride or against those who ride. The “bike in the center” must be above all a choice of “cycling culture”. The bicycle is more philosophy than political, it is a way of being, a lifestyle that sees the daily pedaling as a gesture of mobility, well -being and sport. And the Milan-Sanremo for Milan is the best of the possible “commercials” for all this. Because it is a street party, because there are teams, van, bikes and champions. Because from the center in via Chiesa Rossa, where one began to be serious, it has always been a nice parade among the people who applauded, who stopped to greet, who for once did not fight and did not insult the cyclists. For Milan all this is a bit of a defeat that erases a story that began in 1907 in front of the Osteria della Conca Fallata along the Naviglio Pavese. It rained and was cold as often happens in March and presented themselves in 33. There were no doubts and the Frenchman Lucien Petit-Breton won. Another cycling, another city, another story that the Municipality should defend more tenacity.