Team Sky's outrageous F-Type TT team car, cooling vests and more
First look at Yeti’s new enduro race bike
Prototype wheels and saddles, cunning fixes and an arachnid
A custom stars-and-stripes machine for the triple national champion
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Franco Ballerini and Michele Bartoli in Maastricht at the start of the 1998 Amstel Gold race
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Ballerini in the peloton during his professional career
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Franco Ballerini (right) with Team Italy teammate Maurizio Fondriest (left)
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Ballerini leads the Italian team at the World Championships in 1989
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Franco Ballerini on the attack at the World Championships in 1989
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Franco Ballerini wins Paris-Roubaix in 1998
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Franco Ballerini in rally mode. Motorsport was a passion of the Italian national coach
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Ballerini quickly moved into a coaching role after his professional career ended
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Ballerini says thank you and farewell to Paris-Roubaix
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Franco Ballerini spent two years with Lampre
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Franco Ballerini races for Lampre at the Tour of Flanders
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Franco Ballerini after Paris-Roubaix
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Ballerini gets a pre-race massage during his professional career
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Ballerini led a Mapei 1-2-3 in the 1998 Paris-Roubaix
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Ballerini with Mario Cipollini in 1993
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Ballerini heads to the podium after finishing second in Paris-Roubaix in 1993
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Vale: Franco Ballerini, 1964-2010
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Franco Ballerini in full flight on the cobbles of Roubaix in 1998
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Franco Ballerini savours the moment as he collects the winners trophy in the 1998 Paris-Roubaix
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Franco Ballerini and Eddy Planckaert
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The first of Ballerini's Paris-Roubaix triumphs in 1995
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Ballerini finished a close second to Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle in the 1993 edition of Paris-Roubaix
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Franco Ballerini flys past the camera
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Franco Ballerini leads a group onto a cobbled sector in Paris-Roubaix
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Franco Ballerini on the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix
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Ballerini (left) with Mario Cipollini and Johan Museeuw in 1993
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Italian national coach Franco Ballerini
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