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Dredge, but having ridden that road down to Nesso, it is one of the wildest descents I've done on the road bike. Narrow & very twisty. Would be legit terrifying to race down.
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Ha, the wildest bus ride of my life was to Nesso. We stayed there for a week, taking the train to Como and then the bus to Nesso. Wouldn't want to ride on those roads with the driving we saw.
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I did the Sormano with a mate almost 20 years ago. We’d talked with the proprietor of a Como bike shop about doing it beforehand and he straight out told us not to descend down to Nesso as it was “molto, molto pericoloso”. We heeded his advice and turned around at the top. Sounds like he was absolutely right.
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I did that descent after the race two years ago .... had a front tyre puncture going round one hairpin ... quite hair raising ..... rode the rest of the race course and stopped at a bike shop to buy another tube ... told the owner “puncture coming off the Sormano “ ... and he did lots of Italian eye rolling ,dramatic “Porca Misera “ gestures ... and gave me a free tube .... rode back to Lecco for beer , crisps and gelato - top day out .... and Pinot won ...
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The descent of the Sormano is known to be extremely challenging. It’s not the first incident on it in recent editions, so you do wonder if the climb of the Sormano is worth including.
The Schachmann incident was appalling, cars should not be allowed on the race route in any level of professional race, but in a WT race? RCS need to urgently find out how that happened and put protocols in place to prevent it from happening again.