#Colnago c40 decals pro#
#Colnago c40 decals professional#

There was a frame hanging up at the Gloucester bike project when I went in there. By winning the Giro di Lombardia, he adds another Monument to his list of victories after Lige-Bastogne-Lige.

#Colnago c40 decals professional#

So you have the rare chance to get hold of one of the most iconic professional team bikes of the 1990s. Pretty common to buy the decals when a gaspiper is being resprayed. But when visiting a friends house, I saw his fathers brand new road bike sitting in the middle of their living room, a brand new Colnago, all carbon fiber with yellow graphics. We left his bike as untouched as possible, so you will find everything set up the way he liked to ride it. Colnago C40 (6,89kg) As a teenager in the nineties, I was only into mountainbikes. When finishing his career on wheels, he eventually opened an ice cream parlor which he named Gelateria Ultimo Kilometro, 'the last kilometer', where cyclists can have a refreshing stop on their training rides. It is he from whom we got this bike personally. The next year ultimately made the frame a legend, when Johan Museeuw, Andrea Tafi and Gianluca Bortolami crossed the line at the Roubaix velodrome as first second and third of the race.ДЄs if this would not have been phenomenal enough, Team Mapei repeated the triple in 19.ДЎ999 is also the year that Paolo Fornaciari joined the Team, then already called Team Mapei Quickstep. Mapei's Franco Ballerini won the 1995 Paris-Roubaix and suddenly everybody was aware of the fact that the demise of Aluminium frames might have begun. So you have the rare chance to get hold of one of the most iconic professional team bikes of the 1990s. They proved that the bike was capable of coping with the roughest conditions.

#Colnago c40 decals pro#

However, the frame had yet to prove that it was capable of being a threat to the aluminium and steel bikes in the hard races pro teams have to attend.Д®rnesto outfitted the Team Mapei as the first squad to race his prestigeous machine. All paintjobs were carried out by hand and found the company some extra fame. The logos and decals are all simple white paint, with just a touch of white behind the head. A construction of profiled carbon fibre tubes, fitted together by well proportioned carbon fibre lugs and steered with a high tech steel fork.ДЄnd it became available in an unbelievable amount of paint schemes. Compared to the team issue Colnago C64, Arus bike is close to 200g lighter due to the limited colours. Well constructed enough to equally compete in the mountains and the classics of Flanders.ДЎ994, to celebrate the company's 40th birthday, the C40 was first presented to the public. But to that point no carbon fibre bike proved so safe and light at the same time, that it was suitable as a professional team bike. When Ernesto released the Colnago C40 he started a revolution.Д«efore, carbon fibre has been seen as the future of cycling and there have been loads of experiments going on since the 1970s.