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The 1914 Giro d'Italia was the most challenging bike race ever sold; 81 riders started out in support of eight completed. NowTim Moore is going to make an effort it himself, and he's focused on total authenticity. Twelve years after Tim Moore toiled about the course of the Tour de France, he senses his success being undermined by the reality about "Horrid Lance". His rash response is to defend myself against a fearsome task from an age of untarnished heroes: the notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia. History's most appalling cycle contest was an ordeal of 400-kilometer periods filled with cataclysmic storms, streets strewn with nails, and even the increased loss of an vision by one competition - and it was all over a diet of organic eggs and burgandy or merlot wine. With the 81 riders who rolled out of Milan, only eight managed to get back. To truly capture the substance of what these riders endured a century previously, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road cycle, some maps, and an alarming period costume topped off with a set of blue-lensed welding goggles. As Moore rides up and over the Alps and then right down to the Adriatic (with only wine corks for brakes), Gironimo! can be an adventure that is by turns strong, beautiful, and madly inspiring.
