fans for sale on Via Portuense

…are a sure sign that Roman summer heat has arrived (though locals tell me it is just getting warmed up – wait til August they say) near Porta Portese – where I have come to visit the super sweet guys at Manzo Cicli on the medieval-seeming narrow cobblestone side street just above Via Portuense which is the moto/bici epicenter of Rome – to have my bicycle brakes fixed after a sudden cable-snap while braking and speeding down the Gianicolo yesterday.