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Howdy and thanks for the visit.

This site is run by Bill and Carol McGann. We are the founders and now former owners of Torelli Imports. The largest part of this site is the non-product content from torelli.com: that is, the race results database, our Italian cycling trip diaries, oral history interviews, Tour de France history, etc. There is more to add, and now that we are settled we'll continue to build the site. Next to be added are the cycling comix drawn by the incredibly talented Francesca Paoletti and some terrific cycling history essays by Owen Mulholland.

For those of you who were loyal readers of torelli.com and found the change a surprise, an explanation is probably due. A couple of years of ill health made it impossible for me (Bill) to continue managing Torelli Imports. A wonderful bike-mad gent named Todd Linscott is now the principal at Torelli. I have regained my good health and continue to work with and for Torelli.

Carol and I now live in the Ozarks, up in North Central Arkansas. The cycling is terrific. It's all pastures here with long, quiet roads almost devoid of traffic. Sometimes I find myself amazed that I could end up in a place so beautiful. The relentless short, sharp hills (think Tour of Flanders) about killed me when I first got here but I have resigned myself to using the little ring. People here are kind and thoughtful. I have yet to be buzzed by an angry driver. Strangers in oncoming cars almost always wave. Life here is taken more slowly and that measured pace is a real pleasure.

We are working like crazy on our history of the Giro d'Italia. It will be a 2-volume companion to our The Story of Tour de France. We hope to have the first volume ready by the spring of 2011.

If you want to send an email, please use our contact page.

Enjoy the road!

Bill and Carol

Here we are in 1983. We are on the road from Monselice back to Padua, near Venice, Italy.

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