The bikes of L’Eroica 2014 - gallery

Vintage and retro bikes galore in Tuscany

A simply stunning classic Wilier

Warren Rossiter / BikeRadar

Warren Rossiter

Published: October 8, 2014 at 3:00 pm

Every year L’Eroica celebrates the famous strada bianca (white roads) that ribbon their way through the Tuscan hills. The bikes ridden in the race have to conform to certain rules – that means no clipless pedals and no STI shifters.

To celebrate the event, the race centre at Gaiole hosts a weekend of vintage bike displays, a huge vintage market, and great food. We took a look round Gaiole the day before the race to see what vintage rarities and gems were on offer. Take a look at what we saw by clicking or scrolling through the gallery above.

Warren Rossiter

Senior technical editor

Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine’s senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He’s also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren’s daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).