Ride the Legend — Motogiro d’Italia 2024
Ride the Legend is the official film of the 33rd historic re-enactment of the Motogiro d’Italia, held from 19 to 25 May 2024: six stages and more than 1,600 kilometres on vintage motorcycles through Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Veneto and Tuscany, from Ferrara to Bologna. Running time 54 minutes; directed and shot by Francesco Grigori Di Bene.
- Year
- 2024
- Running time
- 54 minutes
- Dates
- 19–25 May 2024
- Route
- 6 stages, more than 1,600 km through Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Veneto and Tuscany, from Ferrara to Bologna
- Language
- Italian, with subtitled parts in other languages
- Directed and shot by
- Francesco Grigori Di Bene
Synopsis
Six days on Italy’s back roads, from one time check to the next, riding motorcycles that are sixty or seventy years old. The film follows the people who ride the Motogiro: an Argentine collector who came from Córdoba after seven months of preparation, a foreign rider who bought his Ducati Turismo 175 after hearing it start up in a garage, a traveller who twenty years ago met very few women on motorcycles. Riders between 20 and 85 years old, rain, falls, a broken shoulder blade, kilometres pushed by hand to reach the finish line. And in between, the history of the race, from the Circuito d’Italia of 1914 to today’s re-enactment.
“When you’re on a motorcycle you have to do one thing only: ride.”