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Video: Frankie 2 - Michele Scarponi rides with feathered friend again

Macaw joins Astana rider on another training ride, and this time she's flying...

Michele Scarponi has been joined again on a training ride by feathered friend Frankie – the yellow and blue macaw who is a local celebrity in the Astana rider’s home town of Filottrano in Italy’s Marche region.

As he did earlier this month, Scarponi posted a video of himself with the bird, whose plumage matches the colours of his Astana team kit, to Twitter.

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 “Come here Frankie,” he says. “There she is!”

Then, as the bird pecks at his head as it did in the previous video, he says, “You really like this helmet, don’t you?”

Frankie then flies off briefly before returning to perch on Scarponi’s shoulders again.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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KoenM | 8 years ago
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The bird probably thinks he's his dad, they wear the same colours! 

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