The first carbon frame to win Paris-Roubaix (Franco Ballerini, 1995), with four subsequent wins until 2000: once again with Ballerini, two with Johan Museeuw and one with Andrea Tafi. Colnago C40Ī frame that anticipated the future, according to Colnago, with carbon fibre lugs and tubes (plus alloy rear dropouts) that allowed for a made-to-measure frame. The special edition V3Rs with custom paint created for Tadej Pogačar’s victory in the 2020 Tour de France.
The bike also featured a 60-tooth chainring. This lovely C40 frome is the first model of the Colnago family totally made of carbon and produced in big quantity. Colnago could have created something with perhaps a swoopy, futuristic profile befitting its revolutionary design. Colnago C40 carbon frameset Paris-Roubaix special edition, This is absolutely fantastic frameset coming directly from Milano Italy. That’s the reason why the C40 is the favourite bike of all time for so many people including Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Colnago solved the problem of how to make a carbon frame durable enough to win the toughest cobbled Classics yet light enough to soar up Alpine cols.
Made from steel Oval CX tubing squashed vertically to improve aerodynamics and with a small 26in front wheel to allow Rominger to adopt a tucked position. Full carbon frame with Master profile carbon tubes bonded to carbon lugs. The bike that, in 1994, Tony Rominger rode to set the hour record on the Bordeaux velodrome. Ridden to victory in the 1982 UCI Road World Championships at Goodwood by Beppe Saronni, and subsequently at the Giro di Lombardia, Milan-San Remo and Giro d’Italia in 1983. Colnago Super ProfilĪ bike that went through multiple iterations and featured crimped tubes.
Used by the Italian quartet to win the team time trial at the Palermo World Championships in 1994. This bike becomes my daily ride replacing a Colnago Dream Plus (which I still have) equipped with Ultegra and Rolf Sestriere wheels. My local bike shop made me a deal I couldnt pass up on a complete bike with Record 10 speed and Bontrager Race-X-Lite wheels.
Designed with aerodynamics at the forefront, with a monocoque carbon frame and small 20in front wheel. The C40 was my dream bike for about five years until I broke down and bought one. Colnago C35 Crono TTTĪnother bike designed in collaboration with Ferrari and presented on the Fiorano circuit.
Colnago C59Ī replica of the custom C59 ridden by Anthony Charteau into Paris to commemorate his King of the Mountains win at the 2010 Tour de France. Abraham Olano won the 1995 UCI Road World Championship on this bike. The Bititan was a descendent of the Colnago Carbitubo and featured a titanium split down tube. Colnago Conceptįirst designed in 1988 in collaboration with Ferrari, it featured a lugged carbon fibre frame, a gearbox integrated with the crankset, three-spoke carbon fibre wheels (designed by Enzo Ferrari), an adjustable stem and hydraulic braking. Colnago is creating eight ‘digital artworks’ as part of the C64 NFT auction.