Cycling Media will enthusiastically devour any such interview byline with the phrase Io e Michele Ferrari as they do images of [alleged] cycling playboys in dreadlocks.

Is. This. For. Reals? (Credit: Via Twitter)

Here be Pippo in smilier times when he wore the Italian Tricolore. (Credit: I done stole it from Facebook—eek!)

2007 Giro Route Revelation: Pippo experiments with hairstyles while Erik Zabel prefers the classic aerodynamic crewcut which he has worn since the Cycling Stone Age (re: before there were carbon bike frames!). (Credit: Cor Vos via Pedalmag.com)

Slowing Down the Queue

We here at the Chic, Fantastique and Magnifique Pippo Pozzato Appreciation Society could disband this Tumblr due to the likely one year suspension of Our Ferrari-Associated Subject if we were to abandon it due to fannish disillusionment (Tifosa dolorius). Alas, woe are not we for, well, this is cycling! In cycling one who is sane learns not to be as fanatical as the religiously converted about their sporting paramours if one seeks not to be heckled and mocked like über-militant Lance lovers on Twitter. What we have opted to do is slow the pictorial queue to once or twice per week for our devoted—thank you!—subscribers. We know our snarky-esque devotion will be subject to slings and arrows of “[h]ow can you heart a [cycling] doper?” but, come on, there is something shady in all those other sports getting faster, higher, and stronger every year and it is not due to the equipment (re: tennis anyone?). Anyway, we thank you all who follow and retweet from the Pippotorium. Fuck Yeah Pippo forever!

2010 Milano-Sanremo: In homage of “Dov’é Fabu?” at Swiss “Fuck Yeah Fabian!” Perfection it is time to play “Find Filippo” again.

2012 Giro d’Italia, Stage 2: We hope for the swift return of Super Smiley Super Pippo. (Credit: Riccardo Scanferla via Photors.net)

Many believe that Pippo has hair gel in his musettes. (Credit: ????? via Sporza.be)

No, that is not Gandalf the White. (Credit: ????? via Deraileduk.really.long.website.name)

This can/could only happen at the Giro, no? (Credit: Roberto Bettini)