Nicola's scribbles
May 29th, 2024

1979

Life's journal

After discovering that one of the most prepared and authoritative doctor I've met in these last months has born in 1980, I found myself in front of this “prompt” in my Facebook's dashboard. Funny.

In 1979 I rode a ‘Graziella’ bike.

Graziella is an Italian compact, folding bicycle designed by the renowned Rinaldo Donzelli in 1964; since then, the name Graziella is used in Italy for any bicycle that shares the same fundamental design.
Wikipedia

This as far as I can remember.

Graziella - italian foldable bicycle
Graziella - italian foldable bicycle

Mine was a white one, and my father still owns in his basement a brand new one, which never made available to me and my brother for play. Probably because I grow up and started using another bike, and that one was passed to my bro. Leaving the brand new one for my mothers or … whatevere. I may ask him if the remembers the motivation of keeping that brand new.

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Of course the soundtrack of this post can be only 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins 😎