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Matteo Renzi alla Feste Regionale a Villalunga a quella di Bosco Albergati foto: © Vincenzo Menichella All Rights Reserved
Napoli - Di Matteo
Via dei Tribunali n.94
Non si puo' attraversare il decumano senza venire attratti dalla vetrina della pizzeria Di Matteo con le frittatine di maccheroni, crocche', arancini, pizza fritta e la mitica pizza moscia o a cartoccio, quella che una volta costava 1000 lire...
I know some people are hating such colors
But I pretty like it
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Bentley Continental GT
Matteo Renzi all'assemblea annuale dell'AIB presso la ditta Palazzoli
Brescia 3 novembre 2014. Ph Christian Penocchio
Matteo Renzi is the Prime Minister of Italy and the Secretary of the Democratic Party since 2013.
This caricature of Matteo Renzi was adabpted from a Creative Commons licensed photo in the Buy Tourism Online's Flickr photostream.
Matteo Renzi alla Feste Regionale a Villalunga a quella di Bosco Albergati foto: © Vincenzo Menichella All Rights Reserved
This is my ride. Its never going up for sale I love this bike...its the only one I've ever owned which I can tell you its frame number (whoa, that’s a bit too anal!). I'm going to start this article by cutting and pasting an abridged copy of a l letter sent to the Dyno Owners Group:-
Let me introduce myself, my name is Jeff Soucek and I actually designed that frame while working for GT bicycles between the years 1992 and 1998. I thought I could share a little incite to the project and how it became. The idea of this Roadster frame actually was conceived after Sean Flickinger (one of the other GT Industrial Designers) designed the standard Dyno cruiser frame. I was responsible for the geometry of that bike, and at the time we wanted a standard cruiser that would simply blow away the old Schwinn cruises that were so popular at that time. We kept kicking the geometry back and slacking out the frame until it had –what we called at the time “6 pack geometry” This meant you could be half lit and still ride it to the liquor store and them back with one hand on the bar and a six pack of beer in the other. The next part of the story goes like this. Bill Duehring (Director of R&D at GT, and now President of Felt Bicycles) knew we had just designed a great cruiser, and wanted to create something to stir up the excitement of this new “standard” cruiser. We really wanted to highlight the new “six pack” geometry of the new bike. There was a small custom builder in the Huntington Beach California area where our office was, called HB CRUISERS. This guy had made some super stretched out cruisers that we had seen the locals riding down at the beach. This gave us the idea to take our standard cruiser design and “six pack” geometry and stretch it out to the Roadster length, creating a “show bike” for the Interbike release that year in Aneheim California. This would be such an obviously different bike that it would help draw attention to the “standard” cruiser line. So I went to work hand building the first prototype of this Roadster with the help of Dan McGrew (master frame builder in the GT tooling room). We hand formed, bent, flared and machined everything from scratch. Next we had the front half of the frame chrome plated and painted it custom with classic chrome darts, electric blue pinstripes, and black from there back. Even the front fender and chainguard were half chromed and painted. It was a beautiful job done by the Custom GT paintshop in Colorado responsible for all of the Custom frames made by GT at the time. Once the bike was complete, everybody was freaking out about how cool it was, so it was time to show it to the boss Richard Long (owner and president of GT). Needless to say the bike caused quite a stir. When we noticed the big guys from most of competition was in our booth checking it out, Richard had us pull the bike from the show after the first day and gave us the go-ahead to make a production bike. The rest is history with this bike surprising all with the numbers sold over the few years it was in production. Best Regards. Jeff
Now that’s all the original history of the marque and model done with, its time to explain what modifications I made to this masterpiece of bicycle design. First of the frame was fillet brazed to cover the ugly welds and I stuck on a pair of my own drop-outs. The seat post was brazed in to remove the cheesy clamp and the original bars and stem were brazed up with the stem clamp doing up through the forks so as to remove all visible fasteners. The forks were lowered 1” and a disc brake added to the front. Originally it had a Left Side Drive for no other reason other than I could.
As I have said I still own this ride although after more than a few years after winning best cruiser at the second FBI meet she now looks very tatty and has had a Sturmey 2 speed kick back hub shoved in the back... in fact she looks like another bike now and as soon as I get the chance I'm going to post follow up pictures.