Back to pedal the “Ganna team”. He returns as once with a single cyclist, a very young 9 -year -old, who is present and future of a great cycling story, which revives the myth of Luigi Ganna Remember a couple of weeks ago in the region at Palazzo Lombardia, which tells how sometimes the sport is the best way to give value to the talents. Founded by Varese Luigi Ganna in 1913, the Ganna team for forty years has marked an important chapter in the history of Italian cycling. An epic that turns around the bike.

Ganna Pedala as a child, as a teenager and pedal as a young man To go first to work in the fields with his laborer parents and then from Induno Olona to Milan where, seventeen, he finds work in a construction site as a bricklayer. One hundred kilometers a day with all times, on clay roads that uses as training for his sporting passion: cycling. In 1905 “Luison”, so they called the “good giant”, he decided that cycling will be his future. He begins to make competitions and his crystalline talent emerges that leads him to win more and more often that leads him to become the “king of the mud”, because he does not stop in front of anything, less than in front of the bad weather that at the time made even more epic races already adventurous and pioneers.

In 1908 he established the Italian record of the hour at the average of 40.45 kilometers per hour On the track of the Velodrome of Porta Ticinese, in Milan, in front of a large delirium crowd, in 1909 triumphs at Milan – we will move and above all on the first Giro d’Italia. In the same year, thanks to sports successes, the house and a small workshop is bought. No longer just races. The bikes also begins to build them and the notoriety of the brand explodes when it dominates with a “ganna” the great bottom “the seventeenth century”. The ascent of the company is rapid and in a few years the workshop becomes a shed and the production from industrial artisan also of motorcycles soon appreciated and sold throughout the country. Tireless worker is committed to offering a robust, elegant and low price bicycle to the working masses.

In 1914 he left the races to devote himself to his business And shortly afterwards he sets the first team “Ganna” standing and winning champions like Ottavio Bottecchia e Fiorenzo Magni That precisely with one of his bikes he arrives first at the Giro d’Italia of 1951. History. History of a champion who became an entrepreneur and capable of scoring the time before with the talent of his pedaling then with the tenacity of his do. The presentation of the “Nuova Ganna” took place in the meeting room of the fifth floor of Palazzo Pirelli entitled last October to the Varese champion and to keep it with baptism, in addition to the governor Attilio Fontana, among others the president Andrea Stocco and the vice -president Riccardo Aceti were among others. It has the full support of several sponsors, the municipalities of Induno Olona and Varese, but above all of the Lombardy Regional Council and, after the first year with a single athlete, the team will also be open to other children and with a series of meetings in schools to make them know the myth of Luigi Ganna and bring them closer to cycling and all its values.