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Giacomo Agostini, living legend of the Italian motorcycling. Nico Cereghini, experienced journalist of motors with departed from pilot. And then Rossi, dad of the great rider Valentino. He has known them in footstep, from adversary or inside the same team. With them Mario Calonaci has shared a life for the runs, rigorously twos wheels, that after the records, the victories and the world titles, today continuous in point of feet in the shop of 37 Aurelia street.
In this space the engineer from Florence, from 3 years "transplanted" to Viareggio, it attends motorbikes of all kind and it is rarely granted not some return to the past, accepting invitations for big prizes and international races organized by the Asi the Italian Historical Automotoclub.
Here, but also in the small his garage, it relives the myth of the Segoni Corse, historical Florentine stable of the years' 70, of which Calonaci was sporting manager:  <<My pilot parenthesis - it tells the interested forehand - it was very brief:  4-5 years at the most. Was it really Giuliano Segoni to convince me that it was not that my road, with a simple question: "do you want to be a mediocre pilot or become a good mechanic?". It was the' 75 I were 28 years old;  I didn't hesitate to follow his suggestion>>. What however it reached the ears of the young Calonaci in rather casual way, as himself tells:  <<Segoni had already prepared his team, but the results didn't arrive. It organized therefore a day of test with all the pilots of Florence, hoping that at least one of them could give some useful indications, but to evening nobody had still understood where the problems were. While the box were closing, Giuliano asked me to try the motorbike:  I made some turn, I discovered all the "flaws" and it was then he asked me to stay with him as mechanic>>.
After a lot of adventures in the field of the motors, Mario Calonaci pushed by an everlasting passion for the two wheels is to disposition of all the impassioned in his shop now:  Ciemme Racing Frames.





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