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			We rarely see Luigi & Giuseppe 
			on Muggs' Sunday rides.  Our two Mediterranean phantom 
			cycling cousins jointly own a Western suburbs paint shop; Sunday is their largest trading day. 
			
			Luigi & Giuseppe crave to paint 
			insignia on 
			Sydney's toughest climbs the same way 
			famous climbs
			in the
			Tour de France are
			immortalised
			in colourful paint eg Alp d' Huez, Col d'Izoard and Col du Lautaret.  Our two Old World cycling 
			
			aficionados 
			seemingly have a good rapport with local 
			nocturnal 
			Elves on
			Sydney's Northside, because, from time to time, the little Goblins 
			manage to tidy-up Muggaccinos colourful road signs.  
			Above and below are two versions of Muggs' sign in Rohini St, 
			Turramurra station carpark after the local Pixies have 
			used Luigi & Giuseppe 'paint' 
			to touch-up our Sicilian brothers' road signs. 
			
			Left hand pic is a panorama of the famous 21 
			switch-backs  (cross-overs) 
			to the summit of Alpe d'Huez with
			Yellow outline 
			- 13.8 km in length average gradient 7.9%.  
			 
			
			Luigi remonstrates that there are 
			hundreds of larger signs painted on the 22 sections of the most 
			famous ascent.  |