Dario Pieri - Ate Cobblestones for Breakfast
If you were to take a quick look at this bloke you would think he was a middle age sales manager who liked early 2000’s Seaco kit for his Sunday morning ride because that was the brand of espresso machine he had just forked out a grand on.
Dario certainly did not look like a professional cyclist even when he was at his best, and believe me his best was very, very good. How good you say? Well how about second in Paris- Roubaix, fifth in Milan-Sanremo and fifteenth in the Ronde all in 2003.
By all accounts a lovely bloke, he suffered with being seen as the new “Ballerini” by the tifosi and obviously didn’t mind getting on the pies. After his stellar 2003, he should have been a big presence in 2004, but he never got it back together and seems to have disappeared after a stint with Lampre in 2005. The picture gives some idea of his “struggles” with forces greater than he could overcome.
And just as an aside - what the hell was going on with those black crotch panels in the Lampre nicks??? Jeez guys!
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