Written on October 21, 2009 at 8:05 am by admin

Colnago Racing Bike Discounts

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Ernesto Colnago was born in Cambiago, near Milan, on 9 February 1932. Alterna School with the business of an apprentice farmer, passed in 1943 in a small factory with entry age of 13-14 years nell'azineda Milanese GLORIA bicycle as an assistant welder. The young Colnago is also a good amateur cyclist, proud and determined, but in 1951 during the blasonatissima MILAN-BUSSETO falls and fractured the fibula of his right leg. During the period of convalescence asks her father to let him have the wheels to be mounted at home, hence conscious of their innate abilities understands that there are advantages to become self. In 1954 he opened a small shop of 5 square meters started his glorious career as a builder of bicycles. Since then, his creations have been used by more than 100 teams, 2,500 cyclists for over 7500 victories in the world. Pages of history have been written in the saddle of a COLNAGO samples from the likes of Fiorenzo Magni, Gastone Nencini, Eddy Merckx, Giuseppe Saronni, Gianni Motta, Gianni Bugno, Oscar Freire, Johan Musseuw, Tony Rominger, Pavel Tonkov, Yaroslaw Popovych, Erik Zabel and Alessandro Petacchi.

Many great insights into the career of Ernesto Colnago: the cold-forged fork, the lightest bike in the world (5600gr) used by Merchx in the record time of 1972 in Mexico City, lines elliptical, oval, and the CX MASTER of 1983 with the bi-conical tubes. It was the first to create a frame in carbon fiber in collaboration with Ferrari in 1986 Enginnering, the C35 carbon monocoque chassis, the CARBITUBO the BITITAN 1991 and many other technical innovations and stylistic. In 1994 comes the C40 with which 5 were won Paris-Roubaix and numerous world in 2000 with the collaboration of Ferrari was born on CF1, CF2 and other models followed by CF7 until today. The C50 in 2003 became the symbol of Made in Italy by imposing the most important competitions and sales. To date, the place under the sign of the introduction of technology and the integrated headset 3PRS C-HS models used in the new CX-1 Carbon and Carbon EPS.