CARRERA PROFESSIONAL CYCLING TEAM PART TWO THAT SHIMANO GUY
https://veloaficionado.com/blog/carrera-professional-cycling-team-part-two-that-shimano-guy 9 September 2015 Bicycle Technology , Bicycle Racing , Pro Cycling PART TWO of the interview with Frank Boifava from Carrera Pro Cycling. PART ONE of the Carrera Cycling Team interview. IN SWITZERLAND A SHIMANO REP APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE, IT’S THE MIDDLE OF THE 1980’S IN A EUROPE WHERE TEAM MECHANICS SPEAK CAMPAGNOLO ONLY You became an unwitting accomplice to a stalker from Shimano, when everyone was still using Campagnolo. The first time I saw this Japanese guy was in Switzerland. We were at a race and I was working on a bicycle changing a cable, I'd thrown the cable on the ground, you do that to keep the workflow going a bit quicker and later pick it up. There's this Japanese guy and he asks me if he can have the cable, and I thought “who the heck is this guy” and I said “yeah keep the cable”, then he starts taking pictures. Then he starts picking up anything we'd thrown away and ...