An evening at the Ottavio Bottecchia velodrome, a meeting between old glories or rather, between old friends, because as the great Mario Fossati used to say, cycling is a "small parish", not animated by pious souls, but by those with a passionate love for that steel horse that pierced our hearts in tricycle age and allowed us to know the world by always moving forward, yet remaining still, to that eternal childlike love.

 An evening, a meeting, a happening among good friends, between a sprinter of Dino Zandegù's caliber and a tenacious climber like Mario Beccia. Bruno Battistella, a track friend, and Rino De Candido, a coach to many track cyclists. In the middle, celebrated as he rightfully should be, a dear friend of Italy, the Swiss Daniel Gisiger, 70 years old carried with boldness and elegance, who in cycling (raced from '77 to '88, 29 victories, 2 in the Giro d'Italia, a Grand Prix des Nations and a Baracchi) left a mark, especially in time trials: in fact, it seems that now, after years, he was even capable of stopping time itself.

All there, the other evening, at the Ottavio Bottecchia velodrome in Pordenone, on a summer evening, where they talked for hours about a spring gone by and never forgotten.