{"id":5850,"date":"2016-05-11T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:06:19","slug":"the-enigmatic-and-sincerely-fast-giovani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-enigmatic-and-sincerely-fast-giovani\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enigmatic and Sincerely Fast Giovani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5851 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio1.jpg\" alt=\"riding the Seven Giro Limited Edition Resolute SLX\" width=\"602\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio1.jpg 602w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio1-400x365.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio1-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right now, our good friends at Cascade Bicycle Studio in Seattle are running a daily contest in concert with a mutual friend of ours, a quixotic Italian pro named Giovani.<\/p>\n<p>Having not made his team&#8217;s Giro d&#8217;Italia roster (again), he is training in the misty hills of his adopted American home, and every day he posts his times for various routes. If riders, everyday schlubs like us, can beat his time, then a prize can be retrieved from CBS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5852 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio2.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Giro Limited Edition Bike\" width=\"568\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio2.jpg 568w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio2-400x254.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gio2-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 85vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, not all of us can get to Seattle, and even if we could, a formidably strong rider like Giovani is tough to beat, BUT even if you can&#8217;t be there, it&#8217;s worth following along, if only for Gio&#8217;s commentary and photos.<\/p>\n<h1 data-reactid=\".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5853 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0609-933x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Giro Limited Edition Bike\" width=\"840\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0609-933x1024.jpg 933w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0609-400x439.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0609-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0609-768x843.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0609-1200x1317.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0609.jpg 1645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h4 data-reactid=\".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1\"><span data-reactid=\".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.2\">&#8220;sun shines on <\/span><a class=\"_qvlpq\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/cbsgirobike\/\" data-reactid=\".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$text0\/=1$entity1\/=010\">#cbsgirobike<\/a><span data-reactid=\".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.4\"> except for days of rain&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Our erstwhile Italian friend is riding the special edition Giro Bike we built with the guys at CBS a few seasons back.<\/p>\n<h4 data-reactid=\".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0\"><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, our good friends at Cascade Bicycle Studio in Seattle are running a daily contest in concert with a mutual friend of ours, a quixotic Italian pro named Giovani. Having not made his team&#8217;s Giro d&#8217;Italia roster (again), he is training in the misty hills of his adopted American home, and every day he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-enigmatic-and-sincerely-fast-giovani\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Enigmatic and Sincerely Fast Giovani&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[156,41,803,804,799,517,22],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cascade-bicycle-studio","tag-friends-of-seven","tag-giovani","tag-giro-bike","tag-road-bikes","tag-seattle","tag-seven-retailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11960,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}