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A strong hello and “Thank You” to all our sponsors, supporters and friends from JIMENEZ Velo Sport, a Montclair, New Jersey team that seeks to recover the romance of traditional road cycling and racing. These days it is easy to find yourself robotic on the bike staring down at a gadget and worrying yourself silly if you don’t/can’t generate certain numbers. It is nothing but a race through endless data and analyses, attempting to give us a clearer picture of our own world, a world we know. But their race to depict our world often results, not in a clearer view, but rather in a merely virtual world - a world where caricatures replace flesh-and-blood effort by passionate, rugged individuals. For this reason JIMENEZ Velo Sport was founded, so that the old-school romantic may have a home and the things that have been lost may be recovered out of the sadness of a day gone by – and become familiar again with the reason we first took up cycling – that we might be allowed to enjoy the bike FREELY. So thank you all for making this 2009 racing season so much fun. A special THANKS to John McGowan and Rick Garrigan of ASPEN EAST Health and Wellness Center.

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Bugno’s greatest success was the double victory in the World Championship. In 1991 he beat Steven Rooks of the Netherlands and Miguel Indurain of Spain, and in 1992 finished ahead of Laurent Jalabert of France and Dmitri Konyshev of Russia.

Bugno’s performance in the Grand Tours, however, was over-shadowed by Miguel Indurain. But Gianni Bugno’s victory in the Giro d’Italia in 1990 is considered one of the most dominating performances in that race – he led from start to finish, a feat that we will most likely never see again. While he won the Giro in 1990, he finished second to Miguel Indurain in the Tour de France in 1991 and third behind Miguel Indurain and Claudio Chiappucci in 1992. In a battle in the 1992 Tour, Indurain kept his calm despite Claudio Chiappucci’s attack in the Alps; Bugno had to chase and cracked in the final parts of the stage. Indurain was quoted as saying that Bugno was his biggest threat in the Tour.

Gianni Bugno retired from Pro cycling following the 1998 road season and is now a helicopter rescue pilot. He piloted a camera helicopter for the Tour of Lombardy, on October 20 2007, and for the whole Giro D’Italia in 2008. Gianni Bugno is still adored this day by the tifosi (fan) not only for his cycling exploits, not only for representing his beloved Italia with honor and pride, but for his TRUE greatness – HUMILITY.

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