The Giro d’Italia begins, but Jovanotti’s cyclo-docufilm is the real bike spot

The roads of Italy of the Giro d’Italia are fast, very fast. They are a whirlwind of zippy bicycles that you see them go by and you say, but how do they do it? They are colors, innumerable, that overlap and it is almost impossible to distinguish them. It’s a show to see the bike races from the roadside, the passage lasts a moment, but it’s a very intense moment.

The roads of Italy when the Giro d’Italia doesn’t pass are a little less beautiful. Usually they are overflowing with sheet metal and there are always very angry people inside the sheet metal. It is for queues, for delays, for parking lots that never exist, at least not where they are needed. All nuisances that when you ride you can avoid quite easily. The problems are others, the dangers of speed and the distraction of others, of those behind the wheel. They snort, those who ride smile, always look serene and happy.

The Giro d’Italia starts today and from today the complaints will begin, city after city, because the Giro passes through the streets and blocks the normal (non) flow of cars.

More bicycles would be needed to increase the joy content. Because moving the pedals is an explosion of endorphins, of contentment, of good humour. It doesn’t take much to have obvious benefits. And if more would be better. More like a trip, maybe even for a few days. The bicycle offers discoveries of elsewhere that were not even thought possible, and perhaps they were instead only a few tens of kilometers from home, but far from the usual roads, the faster ones.

Then maybe you can reach elsewhere really far away. And the explosion becomes uncontainable. Anyone who has traveled on a bicycle, moved for days and days in the saddle, bags on the rack and away, has seen in “Aracataca. I don’t want to change planet 2” – the documentary film on the journey that Young people he did by bicycle between Ecuador and Colombia – reproducing more or less distant memories, visions, emotions. He saw in Jovanotti, in his words and in his enthusiasms, in his exultation and digressions, sometimes bizarre sometimes very sensible, that exuberant, almost overflowing state of mind that the bicycle gives while perceiving the movement of the world in the air that piffes the face.

And those who have never traveled by bicycle and never thought of traveling, because you can’t travel by bicycle, most say, should know that it is not Jovanotti who is the victim of unjustified enthusiasm, but that it is. That what appears on the display is no different from what you really feel. Because it’s true, Jova has often been an enthusiast in recent years, but in this case he’s not just one by nature, but also because he couldn’t be otherwise.

From Monday 8 May “Aracataca. I don’t want to change the planet 2″ will also arrive on television (and not only on Rai Play), on Rai 2in the lineup after Fiorello’s program “Viva Rai2”, more or less from 8 to 8.15.

A good leg warm-up before moving the pedals of the sofa on the programs that anticipate and pull the sprint to the live stages of the Giro d’Italia.

A good leg warm-up regardless of the vision of the stage. Because it is true that cycle tourism and cycling start in the same way and involve (more or less) the same means, but the riders in the Giro look for and “enjoy” the speed, the lover of the bicycle and nothing else knows how to appreciate and love the slowness , the right pace, above all the possibility of stopping when needed and where needed. Because sometimes stopping is what you need. Especially in view of Aracataca.