How Italian sports cars and bicycles are alike: You always have something to do in the garage on a Sunday afternoon.
How they are not alike: If you accelerate through the corners on a bike, you get pedals that look like this:
My right pedal. The outer metal part used to be rectangular.
It has proven very difficult for me to shed the habit of powering through corners.
As an additional connection, didn’t your Alfa Spider use a bike cable for the throttle linkage?
I’d forgotten all about that — after the original part broke, yes it did. I don’t remember who gave me the advice to use a bike cable as the replacement, but whoever that was saved me quite a bit of dough over the years.
Clearly you need to buy an Italian bike!