Ivan Basso is in search of his first bicycle. The winner of the 2010 Giro d'Italia has made an appeal in a column of of the newspaper "La Provincia di Varese".
"This is the bike that my father brought home one evening. I was four years old, making me the happiest boy in the world," Basso said. "It's the bicycle I used for my first training rides and the one I used in my first rides with the team of Oratorio di Cassano Magnago. I have managed to retrieve all of my other bikes of my career except I cannot find this one. I remember it as if I had one before now: a small, blue, "Asperge". All I do is think about it: for me it has a huge sentimental value because my earliest memories as a rider and my love for cycling are tied to that little blue bicycle."
That bike was for a long time in the cellar of his family, but as so often happens was later donated to a friend.
Basso has a special reward for whomever finds his blue, mini, Asperge: a pink jersey from the 2010 Giro d'Italia with a special dedication.
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