Controversy Surrounds Gardesano Bike Race and Safety Measures

Reactions and comments on the biker race

It’s not pleasant, while someone strolls serenely in the first warm sunshine of the morning, with a child, the girlfriend, or the dog, to see a raving individual, either alone or cloned into ten or thirty copies, pedaling furiously to shave half a second off the leaderboard. The permit to hold the biker race was issued by the mayor Malossini, who risks slipping onto the uncomfortable bench of co-accused responsible for the string of curses, which is as long as the theory of bikers.

“This year, we did exactly what we did last year when nothing really happened.” Therefore, it was impossible for the mayor to foresee the chaos. “Probably, while last year the organization mobilized a few dozen people to inform the general pedestrians about the ongoing race, this year they failed, and this is the result.”

Future measures and problem management

Conclusion: “Next year, we will focus on detailing some conditions, which by the way seemed implicit to us, related to ensuring the safety of passersby.” Moreover, the mayor advises not to throw out the baby with the bathwater: the Bike festival is a fantastic opportunity for Gardesano tourism, and canceling it because some details are not quite right would be a mistake.

“It’s unthinkable to intervene at the level of repression; you’d need an army to achieve any results. Among thousands of people, there will always be some fools — it’s inevitable.” The way forward for Malossini remains the conviction: “They cannot think of occupying an entire territory like a colony. A couple of years ago, we tried distributing a list of prohibited activities to everyone, inviting them to avoid them: perhaps that is the path to follow.”