An imposter sprorting a homemade Velonews press badge snapped this photo.

As the Giro d’Italia winds it way into the Dolomites this weekend I decided to celebrate in Mediterranean Style with The Modern Cyclist’s diet, available almost completely from Costo.

• Free Range Eggs
• Strawberries
• Cone Wrench
• Organic Greens
• Steelhead Salmon
• French Feta
• Kalamata Olives from Greece
• Organic Baby Cucumbers

The name Kalamata may have something to do with the Greek kala ommata which means beautiful eyes. A Byzantine church near the city is devoted to the virgin of Kalomata.

Dave Zabriskie, one of the most unusual stagecoach robbers in American history has crashed out of the Giro d’Italia.

Mass transit, bike lanes, car free streets, public squares, mid-block alleys full of shops and cafés, and happy people wandering about everywhere under their own power, meeting, greeting, and enjoying life.