Colnago unveils new C60 race bikes for UAE Abu Dhabi WorldTour team

Gasman Jim wrote:

I do like the look of them.

I've never ridden one.

I don't understand why one would choose to make a high-end carbon frame using a tube to lug construction technique. Surely the way to maximise the benefits of carbon fibre as a material is to use a one / two piece moulded method?

It allows them to make the bikes in 20 different sizes (10 sloping, plus 5 traditional and 5 high). It also allows them to make custom builds, though given the aformentioned manifold geometries available I'm guessing that you have to be both quite fastidious and quite flush to go that route (or your first name happens to be Louis). And lastly, in a world where every other WorldTour bike is moulded (and the 6.8kg weigh-limit is easy enough to hit), it looks distinctive, and distinguished.

bauchlebastart wrote:

Never really understood the reverance bestowed on the likes of Colnago and Bianchi on this website. To me they look no better or worse than many other brands. I do think that the classic Bianchi  celeste colour is minging though.

Posted by someone who has never actually riden one.

atlaz wrote:

Not sure what they "unveiled" there. Those are standard colour scheme framesets with a couple of extra decals on them, it hardly seems like they have done anything special. 

Do they do a decent TT bike yet? I recall pro riders, both male and female, bitching about their TT bikes.

Not quite the std colour scheme, the non team ones have a matt black paint job with the decals  in gloss black but agree they could of done a special team colour scheme

http://www.colnago.com/en/c60/

This article should read "Next year will see the return of the historic Italian bicycle brand Colnago to the World Tour professional peloton". Gazprom-Rusvelo, Crelan Vastgoedservice and Team Novo Nordisk have been on Colnagos for some years at Pro Continental level, not to mention Wiggle High5 in the women's World Tour.

atlaz wrote:

Do they do a decent TT bike yet? I recall pro riders, both male and female, bitching about their TT bikes.

Yes, it's called the K-Zero. Do you have a source or link to those comments? If you're referring to Pierre Rolland it wasn't the bike he was bitching about, it was the company. Wind tunnel time wasn't part of the sponsorship arrangement with Europcar and the team wouldn't stump up for it, so Rolland started shooting his mouth off saying that Bernardeau should change bike sponsor. 

Freddy56 wrote:

represent Italy as a “nation that still wants to be a competitor in the world of cycling thanks to its skills, expertise and experience - virtues that rise above any technological development,”

 

strange as they are made in Taiwan

Please check the facts before posting. The C60, like the C59 before it, is built via tube-and-lug construction and is assembled at Colnago's factory in Cambiago, Italy.

Freddy56 wrote:

represent Italy as a “nation that still wants to be a competitor in the world of cycling thanks to its skills, expertise and experience - virtues that rise above any technological development,”

 

strange as they are made in Taiwan

The Master, Arabesque, C59 and C60's are all made in Italy including being painted by hand

kev-s wrote:

Freddy56 wrote:

represent Italy as a “nation that still wants to be a competitor in the world of cycling thanks to its skills, expertise and experience - virtues that rise above any technological development,”

 

strange as they are made in Taiwan

 

The Master, Arabesque, C59 and C60's are all made in Italy including being painted by hand

 

 

But Freddy read his response on a website forum without any research, so it must be true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8jUogUvr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgpwDqRuru8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOWRbk5x-Q

DeeJayJay wrote:

The C60 and the Concept..... Possibly the 2 best looking bikes on the tour next season? 

.. is the Oltre XR4 not being used by any teams?