Advantages: Great price and beautiful ride Disadvantages: Lots of small probelms and so many expensive upgrades to be done
Bianchi Via Nirone 7 2005
Alu-Carbon Xenon Compact/Triple Drive Size 59
LiquiGas/Bianchi Team Colours (see photo at botom of review)
£574.99
The bike and the ride
In late summer of 2005 I purchased a Bianchi Via Nirone 7 from Evans online at the website (http://www.evanscycles.com/) and was impressed with the delivery within 3 days. The parcel was well protected and all I had to do was open one end of the box, wheel the bike out, adjust the handlebar orientation and basically it was good to go riding. I changed the saddle for a Bontrager Race X Lite saddle as an upgrade - saddle selection is a very personal choice for comfort on the long rides. After inflating the tyres to a high pressure (I use 100psi to allow for the humps and bumps on the Great British roads). The handling of this bike with carbon fibre forks, stem ...
Advantages: San Marino has more to offer than just Formula One Disadvantages: You have to be very rich
Imola is traditionly the European curtain-raiser to the F1 Season. The circuit is extremely fast and provides the first opportunity for the teams to fully show off the improvements made during the winter.
The time you spend at the track as a spectator will be full of incident and excitement, surrounded by thousands of passionate Ferrari fans. Sixteen years without a Ferrari win at Imola seemed like a lifetime for the Tifosi, but Michael Schumacher ended this in 1999 courtesy of a rare mistake by Mika Hakkinen, troublesome backmarkers for coulthard and aggressive driving by himself. ...
