Ivan Basso was invited to join a fun ride with KENDA in Taiwan
Cannondale pro cycling team GC rider -Ivan Basso was invited to Taiwan by Team sponsor- KENDA.
Ivan Basso stayed 1.5 days in Taiwan and experienced the beauty and landscape of Taiwan.
Ivan Basso arrived at the headquarter of KENDA in Yuanlin on Oct. 27th and enjoyed mountain riding at HeHuan Mountain in Nantou.
HeHuan Mountain, also known as the Wuling climb. This epic climb is one of the top in HeHuan Mountain that the m.a.s.l. is 3250M. Wuling climb is reached by heading down the No# 8 Highway, linking to the 14A highway through to the peaceful coastal city of Hualien.
Many Taiwan riders joined this mountain riding with Ivan Basso. After the riding, Ivan Basso went back to the headquarter of KENDA and had factory tour.
清境------------------翠峰:9.815KM, 5.76%
翠峰------------------鳶峰:6.253KM, 7.15%
鳶峰------------------昆陽:5.088KM, 6.47%
昆陽------------------武嶺:2.207KM, 8.60%
Ivan Basso
Ivan Basso (born 26 November 1977 in Gallarate, Province of Varese) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who is currently racing with UCI ProTeam Cannondale. Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, is among the best mountain riders in the professional field in the 21st century, and is considered one of the strongest stage race riders. He is a double winner of the Giro d'Italia, having won the 2006 edition and the 2010 edition of the Italian Grand Tour whilst riding for Team CSC in 2006 and for Liquigas in 2010. However, in 2007 Basso admitted he was planning to use doping and was suspended for two years. His suspension ended on 24 October 2008, and he returned to racing two days later in the Japan Cup, where he placed a close third behind Damiano Cunego and Giovanni Visconti.
He was born in Gallarate, in the province of Varese in Lombardy. There he grew up next door to Claudio Chiappucci, a former three-time stage winner in the Tour de France who was suspended for two years after being proven guilty of doping several times.
As an amateur, he finished second in the 1995 junior World Championships and his first big result was winning the U-23 World Championships in 1998. In his youth he fiercely competed with fellow Italian riders Giuliano Figueras and especially Danilo Di Luca who proclaimed he would have won the U-23 World Championship himself had it not been for the team tactics. Before Basso could turn professional, his parents wanted to see him finish his Technical Geometry studies. He turned professional with Davide Boifava's Riso Scotti-Vinavil team in 1999, where he rode his first Giro d'Italia. He did not finish the three-week race, but he made it a priority to win it someday. In 2000, with the team now called Amica Chips-Tacconi Sport, he won his first professional victories in the 2000 Regio-Tour.