Rose fever around the riders of SMP Saddles continues. Thanks to the Gold Generation of the Footon-Servetto-Fuji the SMP Saddles reached the place in the first line at Giro d’Italia 2010.
The 93rd edition of the rose race which unusually starts at Amsterdam, Holland, will see also the characteristic and inimitable saddle with its original beak tip and central canal which make all the products of Franco and Maurizio Schiavon brothers’ company from Padua unique and unmistakable. The television images transmitted worldwide and watched by over 350 millions of spectators will exalt the product that is already appreciated very much by anyone who had tried the comfort of the innovative SMP Saddles.
The nine bikers of Footon- Servetto-Fuji chosen by Mauro Gianetti for Giro d’Italia, out of any scheme and ready to gain the victory are as follows:
101 (the number on the shirt) Ermanno Capelli (Ita);
102 Matthias Brandle (Aut);
103 Eros Capecchi (Ita);
104 Giampaolo Cheula
(Ita); 105 Markus Eibegger (Aut);
106 Iban Mayoz Echeverria (Spa);
107 Marco Corti (Ita); 108 Michele Merlo (Ita);
109 Martin Pedersen (Den).
AMORE e VITA CONAD
Remaining in the professional camp, right those days there was registered the first success of the Professional Continetal Amore&Vita Conad team. To make the sorrow come back on faces of Ivano and Cristian Fanini was Yuri Metlushenko (in the photo). Ukrainian won in Legnica in the Criterion of the opening of Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich, the short stage race in Poland scheduled until Sunday, May 9th, where Metlushenko won also last year.
MTB
This was the weekend reach of satisfaction for the Gso Forestale Frw equipped with the SMP Saddles. Rafael Visinelli from Bologna won the race of Fara di Soligo (TV) which assigned the titles of the regional champion of Veneto. Meanwhile during the 2nd trial of the World Cup competed at Houfalizze (Belgium), the ex champion Gerhard Kerschbaumer, starting from the last row, managed to reach the 33rd absolute place (5th Under23).