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About L'Eroica The greatest vintage bicycle event in Europe for which the participants who will start in 82 participants in 1997 and exceed 5,000 persons from the world now gather. It is held every year on weekend early in October in Gaiole in Chianti which is one of villages in the Siena prefecture of the State of Toscana. The participants who enjoyed a flea market and some events in the previous day, partly start into each course from predawn. They run the whole distance of each registered courses which are 205 km, 135 km, 75 km and 38 km. Each course is including unpaved roads. And on each course, participants can enjoy rest stations having local cuisine and drinks including wine.

Rules of bicycle "Heroic" bicycles are bicycles which have all the following characteristics: • road racing bikes, built before 1987 (not cyclo-cross or time trial bikes); • steel frame (the only aluminium frame bikes permitted are ALAN or VITUS with either screwed or glued joints); • gear shift levers on the down tube of the frame (exceptionally, only pre-1980 bar-end gear shifts are allowed); • pedals with toe clips and fitted straps (quick release pedals are not allowed, except Cinelli M71 pedals); • passage of brake cables outside the handlebars (the passage of cables inside the frame is acceptable); • wheels must have at least 32 spokes with a low profile (less than 20 mm).



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