{"id":7945,"date":"2020-04-23T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edoardomelchiori.com\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2020-04-27T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:13:13","slug":"five-years-on-the-saddle-and-behind-the-lens-with-raida-come-mangi-mtb-school-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edoardomelchiori.com\/en\/five-years-on-the-saddle-and-behind-the-lens-with-raida-come-mangi-mtb-school-italy.html","title":{"rendered":"Five years on the saddle and behind the lens with Raida Come Mangi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first time I met Jack<\/strong> was in 2009, at the time I was working in a bike shop and a mutual friend introduced us. Or at least he tried but the customer I was serving kept asking questions to buy a “MTB for competition under \u20ac200” and after a while Jack had to give up and nodded me like saying “maybe we’ll try again another time”. The first time I photographed him he was riding a green BMX with red pedals mandatorily matching his T-shirt.<\/p>\n

Talking about Fabio<\/strong> I’ve met him in 2013 in Biella at the FCI (Italian Cycling Federation) MTB instructor training, he was the inflexible instructor who judged my XC clip in pedals and my almost total inability to do a proper bunny hop. He wore the baseball cap with the flattest visor I had ever seen and cruised around on a very stylish all-white full suspension bike. Of that weekend I also remember very vividly the beer tiramisu of the Menabrea restaurant in Biella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Obviously at the time I was completely unaware that about ten years later the three of us would all have ended up sharing many hotel rooms in half of Italy working side by side in dozens of events, in the sun and under the rain, in the dust and in the mud , in the middle of the mountains and by the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 years in numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n