1.05.2011

Vittorio Badorni


MR HTFU, AKA VITTORIO ADORNI, CRUSHES A SMALL GROUP OF CHASERS WHILE RIDING GRAVEL IN MORE SNOW THAN I’VE EVER SEEN, DRESSED IN A CASUAL SHIRT AND NO F*CKING GLOVES.

INSOUCIANT OR WHUT.

AS VELOMINATI SAYS, A HIGH-ORDER BADASS INDEED.


A career domestique, he nonetheless won stages of the Giro d’Italia as well as the 1968 world championships which were held on Italian soil. According to Wikipedia, Eddy Merckx, who was his trade-team captain at the time, blocked for him when he went up the road, allowing him to gain a 10 minute advantage over the chasers and become World Champion. It turns out that Adorni was a mentor to Merckx and taught him how to ride a Grand Tour.


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