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OPINION
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PantaniJPG.jpgBut not forgotten.
Never Valentines Day any more but the anniversary of your death. Was it really 5 years ago I burst into tears when I heard the news getting home from a race?
You were a hero to me, you still are, despite, and because of, your faults.
Grazie Marco, may your good lord take the time.
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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Hear hear......