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In The New Bike Dirk Jan Roeleven fulfills an old promise. Once upon a time an Italian bicycle mechanic repaired the racing bike of a stranded Dutchman for free. The young man promises that he will return for a new Cucchietti bicycle. And adds that he will pedal it home over the Alps. Solo. Fourteen years later, Dirk Jan Roeleven accepts the journey as promised. But after a start full of magic and good luck, the ride turns into a crusade in cycling shorts in a hell of trucks, torrential rain, squalls, closed mountain passes and freezing cold. Sitting on a nervous Italian cycling saddle, Roeleven can finally contemplate life before death undisturbed.