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2000[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading text_font=”font-648415″ text_size=”h4″ uncode_shortcode_id=”653245″]Pantani[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ row_height_use_pixel=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”119174″ container_limit_width=”772px”][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=”yes” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ medium_width=”0″ zoom_width=”0″ zoom_height=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”p” text_size=”fontsize-933420″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”206148″]The 20th century saw another explosion in bicycling with mountain bikes.<\/strong> Bianchi followed with victories, taking the Downhill World Championship title with Bruno Zanchi in 1991.<\/p>\n

Another key milestone was about to happen. Salvatore Grimaldi and his Cycleurope company burst onto the scene in 1997, taking over the brand and pushing it into the \u2018top brands\u2019 Olympus<\/strong> by blending history and the most advanced technological research.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_single_image media=”176164″ media_width_percent=”100″ media_ratio=”one-one” media_title_uppercase=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”158290″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”p” text_size=”fontsize-751231″ text_weight=”500″ uncode_shortcode_id=”145839″]Salvatore Grimaldi<\/span>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_single_image media=”176165″ media_width_percent=”100″ media_ratio=”three-two” media_title_uppercase=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”451129″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”p” text_size=”fontsize-933420″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”527120″]Riding a very light aluminum bicycle, Marco Pantani famously tossed away his bandana to take the Giro d\u2019Italia and Tour de France in one go in 1998<\/strong>. Cycling, not only in Italy, went crazy for the small bald climber known as \u2018The Pirate\u2019.[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ style=”light” overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″ uncode_shortcode_id=”177727″][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”2″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_fixed=”yes” z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”133011″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_horizontal=”right” position_vertical=”middle” align_horizontal=”align_right” gutter_size=”2″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”3″ style=”light” overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ align_medium=”align_center_tablet” medium_width=”0″ align_mobile=”align_center_mobile” mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″ uncode_shortcode_id=”127664″ css=”.vc_custom_1778665477344{border-left-width: 5px !important;}”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_button radius=”btn-round” outline=”yes” border_width=”0″ lbox_skin=”white” uncode_shortcode_id=”354286″ icon=”fa fa-arrow-left4″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bianchi.com%2Fen%2F1960-1980%2F|”]Previous story[\/vc_button][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_horizontal=”left” position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”2″ style=”light” overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ align_medium=”align_center_tablet” medium_width=”0″ align_mobile=”align_center_mobile” mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″ uncode_shortcode_id=”167191″ css=”.vc_custom_1778665483351{border-right-width: 5px !important;}”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_button radius=”btn-round” outline=”yes” border_width=”0″ icon_position=”right” lbox_skin=”white” uncode_shortcode_id=”694760″ icon=”fa fa-arrow-right4″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bianchi.com%2Fen%2F2000-oggi%2F|”]Next story[\/vc_button][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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