The frame can accommodate 28c treads, which handle the bumps better. The bike with its 25c tires was fine on the rocky roads. I didn’t find any pavé à la Roubaix, but about 5-km of gravel was my local equivalent. If I felt shattered at the end, it was from going too hard, not from any harshness in the frame. I had some glorious long rides on this bike. In 2012 it was the turn of the C59 ‘Ottanta’ or 80 in Italian to celebrate Ernesto’s. Yet, it’s perfectly content to cruise along. In 1994 it was the C40, which claimed five Paris-Roubaix wins over the next seven years. It zips forward effortlessly when I press on the pedals. It steers beautifully into and through corners. The C64, however, seems the most balanced. M Cohen My Colnago Misadventure A C 50 Flr Bicycle Nightmare Colnago c50 52 the paceline forum colnago c50 52 the paceline forum c50 nago colnago lfgss colnago frame size chart off 57. Colnago C40 The Ultimate Guide Cycling Obsession. I’ve ridden a number of Italian super frames, all of which were, in fact, super. Colnago C50 62 B Stay Carbon Frameset Black Italian Bb Traditional Geometry Road 1 149 95 Picclick. While I usually ride a Size 54 frame, the 50s C64 fit me perfectly. For traditional geometry, you’ll have to took to Colnago’s steel frames. Also, there are four high-geometry options that have head tubes that are 15 mm taller (20 mm in the case of the 56h) than their sloping siblings.
Colnago c40 50 traditional geometry series#
While the C series bikes used to be built with Colnago’s traditional geometry – featuring a horizontal top tube – and sloping geometry, the C64 frame comes in nine sizes of sloping. The Colnago C64 has a 1 1/8″ to 1 1/4″ tapered head tube. My test bike was a rim-brake model, however, there’s also a disc-brake version available. These cups are made with carbon fibre, nylon and elastomers, and help to dampen road vibrations. The D shape seatpost comes from Colnago’s V2-R, while the upper cups at the headset come from the Concept aero bike. You adjust your seatpost by loosening or tightening a bolt tucked under the seat-tube lug. In the seat-tube lug, there’s an alloy seat clamp. On the new frame, the head-tube lug and fork blades have indents, which are new weight-saving design elements. The tubes of the C64 – as with the previous C model, the C60 – have a fluted, star-shape. It’s a process with more similarities to the way Ernesto Colnago fashioned steel frames than with the contemporary carbon-fibre production process that uses moulds. Like the C40, the C64 is made in Italy with carbon-fibre tubes fit into carbon-fibre lugs. Price: $7,540 (frame, fork, seatpost and headset)