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Autostrada A14 Autostrada A11 Autostrada A12. In order for a road to be classified as a motorway, various geometric and construction conditions must be satisfied and these, although very similar in basis (for example the width of the travel lanes must be 3.75 metres (12.3 ft)) are not constant: there are different technical-legal regulations for motorways built in urban or extra-urban areas.
The Strade Bianche (pronounced [ˈstraːde ˈbjaŋke]; Italian for 'White Roads') is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena.First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March.
Paris–Rouen (first cycling race), France, (1869) San Francisco Grand Prix, United States, (2005) Trofeo Baracchi, Italy, (1991) Wincanton Classic, United Kingdom, (1997) Giro del Lazio, Italy; Delta Profronde, Netherlands; Züri-Metzgete, Switzerland (2006) (continuing in 2008 as an amateur event) Coppa Placci, Italy (2008)
The Italian National Road Race Championships is a road cycling event held annually, which decides the Italian cycling champion in the road racing discipline, across several categories of riders. The event was officially first held in 1906 (won by Giovanni Cuniolo), having been held unofficially since 1885. At the beginning there were often back ...
In the early days of professional road bicycle racing there were many one-day road races and stages in grand tours that were much longer than those of today. Bordeaux–Paris in France was the longest one-day, annual professional bike race; it had a route of about 560 kilometres (350 mi) and was run almost every year between 1891 and 1988.
' Tour of Italy '), [1] also known simply as the Giro, [2] is an annual multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through, other countries. [3] The first race was organized in 1909 to increase sales of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, [3] [4] and the race is still run by a subsidiary of that ...
The company was founded in 1964 outside Milan, Italy, by brothers and former cyclocross racers, Paolo and Italo Guerciotti, with advice and assistance from Cino Cinelli. [1] In 1976, Guerciotti began sponsoring professional road cycling teams, supplying bikes to the Fiorella Mocassini team.
The position of the race in the European calendar has changed several times. Prior to 1987 the event was always seven days before Milan–San Remo and was seen as an important preparation race for the Spring Classics, however in 1987 Milano–Torino was switched to a date in October just before the Giro di Lombardia because the race organisers were not happy with the inclement weather ...