"The only reason to follow Nencini downhill would be if you had a death wish", said the French rider Raphaël Géminiani.

[4] It was in trying to follow Nencini down a mountain on Stage 14 of the 1960 Tour de France that Roger Rivière missed a bend, crashed over a wall and broke his spine.

[5] Nencini's downhill race with Henry Anglade has become part of the legend of cycling.

At the Futa pass, on the mountains over his native Barberino di Mugello, a monument is placed to his memory: a big bronze bas-relief portrait of him racing and the inscription saying: "A Gastone Nencini.

The administration of Barberino, the sportsmen, the comrades of many battles remember the Mugello-born champion").