Edited Date/Time
1/26/2013 6:53pm
I am in serious contention for a full paid scholarship to the Bocconi University for the spring semester of next year and if everything goes right i'm moving full time to Italy next year. I was wondering if there is anyone here on Vital that lives in the Milan area and could help me out with showing me where the tracks and trails are. I basically don't know anything about motocross over there. Is there a place like craigslist that i could buy i used bike when i am over there? Any info would be useful. Thanks in advance.
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mx info for you - regarding that region. What i do offer, though - is to mention what a TREMENDOUS opportunity this is
for you and, many of us, especially us elders - are both fascinated and envious of your upcoming education and journey.
Wish you the best, proud of you and, please be a good ambassador of and for - America and, American motocross. Cheers.
Ciao Andiamo !.
I have travelled Europe a bunch and Italy a bit. If you don't act like an arrogant American, you will do fine and get along with everyone except the fringe tools. You just have to remember that other cultures have different priorities than we do in America. They also have a much different media and have different takes on world events.
As far as Milan goes, I have never thought to highly of it since it is an industrial city. The surrounding country side is pretty nice though.
Just a note....I did have a number of non natives give me some unsolicited advice on crime. I was never a victim or even noticed any but since a number of people mentioned it, you may want to look into it and be prepared. It mostly had to do with pick pocketing in large public areas like train stations etc..
Do yourself a favor and go to the F1 race in Monza if you have a chance. They go absolutely ape shit after the race, especially if Ferrari wins.
Bamx- I have read that Italians are really friendly so that should make things easier. I'll also keep an eye out with the pick pocketing but it shouldn't be worse than Vegas or other places around here. I will forsure have to make it to the F1 race sounds like a great time.
I was stationed in Germany 73 to 75 and raced lots of MX....you will have a great time
Oh... and shit is crazy expensive there... gas, food, bikes, everything.
Good luck!
That link is a pretty good source of info, but I'm pretty sure some of those have closed. Maggiora used to have a race that MC would race every year. Lodi used to have night practices on thursday... I remember going there and taking both wheels and forks off my pink tm80 big frame and shoving the whole thing into the trunk of my mom's car because I wanted to go ride so bad and we had no other way to get there. Peschiera Borromeo was my first race and looped out and ate shit so hard on this little table top that I bent the crossbar with my chin... I could jump that thing blindfolded now, sadly I think they are closed now. Bosisio Parini is another track with a long history.
Oh man, the memories....
First of all, excuse me for my poor English... It will be very hard to express in a nice way what I have in my mind! Ahahahahaha
Anyway I think and hope wou're going to enjoy your period here, Milan is a nice city with lots of things to see and to do and an interesting and full of night life, so prepare yourself to study very little and to party hard in the first months of your period!
About motocross don't worry, tracks are not as wide and long as the ones you have in the USA, but there are plenty of them quite near the city so riding in your spare time it would not be a matter in any way... For example, in about 1 hour of travel you could reach Dorno, Ottobiano, Crotta D'Adda, Chieve, Lodi, Bellinzago Novarese, Fara Novarese, Bosisio Parini, Ceriano Laghetto, Malpensa and Cadrezzate, and if you have a little more time to spend to travel lots of other tracks like Mantova, Cremona, Serle, Odolo, Mirabello Monferrato and many more.
About buying the bike and\or the gear, there are many small\medium dealers that you can visit or contact to find the better bike for you, but that too isn't going to be a big problem because due to the economical crisis there are many nice used bike on sale at interesting prices, so with a little effort you'll be able for sure to buy a nice one and to start riding and having fun in our tracks!
Ah, to ride you must have a license that could be released by FMI, UISP or ASI; my advice is to take the FMI one, that maybe is a little more expensive than the others but allows you to enter in every track beacuse the UISP and the ASI ones are not always accepted everywhere; there's also a difference in prices of the license if you wanna race (more expensive) or just riding in training days (less expensive).
Well, for now that's all... I hope you'll find these words useful, and if you need further information ask me, I am pleased to help a motocross addicted like me! If you want you can also add me on Facebook...
http://tracksmap.com/frameset.html?ln=it
and here some photos
http://tracks.mxcenter.it/
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i live near malpensa airport
i don't know the californian reality, but here we have a stereotyped vision of USA maked by thousand big and abusives and free track every miles :D
near milan there's a lot of track, already listed by andy.
from what i can see from the photos, i think the terrain and their treatment are different from yours.
for example in Malpensa you find hard packed terrain, do the best after many rain, and clody days, if ripped is very good, in summer very bad and dusty. 25-30min road from milano. open weekend, tuesday and thursday. occasionally everyday.
ceriano laghetto, classick style, hard packed and gravel, 10-15 min from MI, open weekend and thursday
lodi, lot of jumps, intermediate terrain, open thursday night 20-25 min road, open weekend and thursday
crotta d'adda, medium-soft, good every time, especcially after heavy rain, because is few meter above the fields (30-40 min road) open everyday
cadrezzate, medium soft, good every time but closed in the winter due to frost, worderful in every other season, many jumps (30-40 min) open weekend, wednesday and thursday
dorno, soft terrain, currently closed for remaking of the track, abouth 1 month and re-opening. (30min from MI) in the past was open everyday
ottobiano, new track, open 2 weeks ago, true sand and many jumps, open every day (30-35min from MI) open everyday
schianno, open occasionally, old style track, few jumps, terrain mixed, quite soft, hard, and gravel. many up and downhill (40min from mi)
recetto. mixed indoor and outdoor track, mid hard terrain, whit 400m of the track cover and open in any weather conditions near novara, 30-40min from MI, open weekend, tuesday and thursday
bosisio parini, classic outdoor track, terrain mid-hard (30 min from MI) open weekend and thursday
chieve, midsoft terrain, many jumps (30min from mi) open everyday
bellinzago. very good and midsoft in autumn-winter; mid hard in summer. open every dai except friday (40 min from MI)
adro, new, open 2 months ago, hard terrain, modern design track, open everyday prevoius phone (40min from MI)
and many more track at little more than an hour are good, like mantova, cremona, odolo, armeno.
asti is an orgasm but is closed ( i hope not for long...or forever)
for any other info ask whitout problem!
if is your interst there's an italian motocross internet forum http://forum.mxbars.net/
and this is the topic maded by an user who have read here on vitalmx your request http://forum.mxbars.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=64145
I graduated in 1993 in Bocconi and right now I'm attending an Executive MBA in SDA Bocconi. But most important is my passion for mx and off road.
Near Milano you can both find mx tracks or have exciting enduro trips.
If you need any help let's keep in touch: robi950rally@gmail.com
Ciao
Grazie!
Here is my Facebook page, add me when you want!
http://www.facebook.com/andrea.ronzio
Ah, Groig#105 is a friend of mine... We can have great times and epic battles riding all together! Italy vs Usa... A little MX of Nations! Ahahahahahahaha (of course I'm joking, I'm not that competitive especially with friends
i live very close to the tracks of Malpensa and especially Cadrezzate (5mins), you are going to have fun over here!
in Milan there is a lot of night life but don't expect the city itself to be that beautiful (my opinion).
i suggest you to come to visit our beautiful alps and our lakes!
i live right on the shores of lake maggiore, if you want a free tour of my area hit me up, we will then go for a nice motocross riding at Cadrezzate's track with groig#105 ;-)
facebook: Max Binda (you ll see randy rhoads as my avatar)
Rome rocks.
i live near Austria and when i'm at home my car is opened all the time.
Obviously there are many areas that are dangerous in italy, but there................... don't live Italians ;-)
bad economy? maybe in the south of italiy. in the northern part we still live pretty good, don't read newspaper. they don't tell you reality.
Italians patriots? ahahah are you serious?
and for football, is a fantastic sport like mx. Played with your friends obviously. but when there are money.......unfortunately they destroy people.
don't agree... i don't know what italian reality you know, but in lombardy and neighboring the situation is not al all so black as you painted it.
i don't want to tell you thats the paradise (except some part , mountains and lakes zone, and the countryside, IMHO) but is dangerous leave car open and bike unlocked in some zone, obviously like in all over the world.
stealing everything all the time? man, if in sweden you can forget 100 euro in the road in front of your house in stockolm and take it back after 1 day... I envy you !
patriots in italy? LOL unfortunately not, and probably thats the cause of many people (not the majority, but the most noisy) not aggregates against the eventually problems, but merely to complain; if USA is the home of "politically incorrect", here is the opposite. bigots and moralizer everywhere
in lombardy... forget "spaghetti pizza mandolino mamma", it's not properly italy, here only work, and fog in the winter! I do not know how different it is from sweden... excepts spiked tires!
I'm exaggerating of course, I can not figure the ass-licker of my nation, I would not be impartial
about the footfagsballfans, I do not know what to tell you, I do not follow this sport.
for the worst english spoken in europe, i'd better keep quiet to avoid shitty figures
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