Colnago

Colnago is a renowned Italian manufacturer of high-quality road bike frame, cross-country frame, mountain bike frame, track frame and time trial frame. In 1954, Ernesto Colnago, the company, and today he is still CEO.

Many of the later settled in the product line context arise almost entirely by hand at our headquarters in Cambiago, Italy and especially for their finishes ( for example, hand- painted decals ) known and appreciated. However, ( carbon components in particular ) (mainly cheaper models) and frame parts and forks are also frames built since around 2003 or are purchased from different manufacturers in the Far East. In 2010, the hitherto exclusively specialized road bike frame brand also has a mountain bike in the program. The labeled " Rock" led model has a carbon frame and attachments of the high-end sector and to draw from the off-road area under the spell of the Italian luxury brand the community.

Colnago is known for to go against trends in the cycling industry: For example, integrated headsets or strongly sloping top tubes were not implemented, but to use the "classic" frame technology. However, modern high-tech materials. Along with Ferrari Colnago developed in the 1980s and 1990s new carbon technologies for the bicycle frame building. The best example is the legendary Carbon frame C-series (current C59 ), which are very stiff and reasonably light and have a classic look. The C-Series is named after the company age.

Colnago supplies in the 2009 season no UCI ProTour teams more after in 2008 still Rabobank and Team Milram and the UCI Professional Continental team Team Tinkoff Credit system and supplies were, but focuses on different work teams and other smaller teams like the Continental Pro Team Europcar (EUC ) from France.

The following Straßenradteams drove in 2012 Colnago bikes:

• Team Europcar
• Colnago -CSF Inox
• Team Type 1 - Sanofi

Bibliography

• Rino Negri - " Quando la bici è arte " ( the story of Ernesto Colnago )