Bicycles, he would sigh, are deities. And collecting, he would admit, is a disease. Sergio Sanvido had fallen ill with deities. As a boy, struck by lightning. As a mechanic, passionate. As a researcher, tireless. As a dreamer, inexhaustible. As an entrepreneur, courageous. Until he gathered and welcomed a community of bicycles, from the celerifere to the draisine, from the city bike to the racing bike, an extended and loved, deeply loved family. In 2007 he donated his emotional and mechanical heritage to the Municipality of Cesiomaggiore, where he lived and worked. Museum, sculptures, murals, as well as districts and streets dedicated to the greatest interpreters of cycling. Four years later, in 2015, Sanvido passed away, he was 87 years old.

From Sunday, August 24 to Sunday, September 7 in Cesiomaggiore, about twenty kilometers southeast of Belluno, the (long) Cycling Week takes place. It begins on August 24 (gathering at 6:45 AM, departure at 10:30 AM, last arrival at 2 PM) with the Sanvido Classic historical cycling event, a sixty-kilometer route on paved but less frequented roads or white and rural paths passing through Feltre, Pedavena and Seren del Grappa, with vintage bikes. Other sporting and cultural events will follow, from children's rides to competitive races, from puppet shows to cinema, and the show "Imerio and Two Wheels" with Marco Ballestracci about Massignan.

Bicycles are deities, Sanvido was right. Perhaps they won't save the planet, but they certainly strive to give health and joy, respect nature and humanity, form characters and groups, fight loneliness and selfishness. The museum dedicated to Toni Bevilacqua is a stronghold against decay and oblivion, haste and superficiality. It was he, Sanvido, who commissioned Claudio Gregori to catalog his kingdom. And Gregori, with "ABiCi" in 2011, took the opportunity to dive into the archives, resurrecting episodes and adventures, reviving champions and domestiques, retracing and embroidering a sweaty, slow, valiant, eternal journey.