The C40 went on to win 5 editions of Paris-Roubaix in 6 years. But when I heard that there were 4 Mapei riders in the break, I knew I could relax. I had to take personal responsibility for what was going to happen and I spent all night worrying about it, barely able to sleep. I told him that wed done all of the tests that we could on the frame and the fork and we were certain there would be no problem. The night before Paris- Roubaix I had Mr. There was a company that wanted to fit suspension forks on the bicycle, but I wasnt going to have suspension forks on the C40. When we built the C40, we were the only ones to build carbon frames and all the mechanics and competitor technicians were saying that they would be too dangerous to use on cobbled roads, especially with the straight carbon forks. Instead he kept the tubes ramrod-straight in the traditional style albeit with the star-shaped cross-section that he had pioneered with the steel Master. Colnago could have created something with perhaps a swoopy, futuristic profile befitting its revolutionary design. Thats the reason why the C40 is the favorite bike of all time for so many people including Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Ernesto Colnago solved the problem of how to make a carbon frame durable enough to win the toughest cobbled Classics yet light enough to soar up Alpine cols.
Full carbon frame with Master profile carbon tubes bonded to carbon lugs. In the 1990s Colnago started to produce their very successful model C40 C for carbon and 40 to commemorate Colnagos 40th year in business. For sale, XL vintage 64cm Colnago C40 B-Stay with Campagnolo Record 10 Triple components, 64cm c-t seat tube, 59cm top tube, color scheme LX10.
While other teams experiment with mountain bike technology, Colnago sticks to his principles and supplies Mapei riders at Paris-Roubaix with C40 bicycles with Precisa straight forks.Vintage Colnago C40 B-Stay, 64cm, Campagnolo Record components. All three are aboard Colnago C40s as team sponsor Georgio Squinzi instructs that Museeuw should win. His Mapei team-mates Andrea Tafi and Wilfried Peeters take second and third after powering the breakaway from which Ballerini springboards to victory.īelgian Johan Museeuw crosses the line first at Paris-Roubaix in a choroegraphed finish after he and Mapei team-mates Gianluca Bortolami and Andrea Tafi escape with 86km to go and prove unstoppable.
Powering his Colnago C40 on his own for the final 70km, on a day marked by foul weather and a crash by his team leader Johan Museeuw, Franco Ballerini takes his second Paris-Roubaix win.
He had a training philosophy where he rode shorter distances than most pro cyclists, sometimes covering only about half the distance his colleagues would. He has won the cycling monument Milan – San Remo three times, four stages in the Tour de France and seven stages of the Vuelta a España, throughout a successful career.ĭespite his diminutive stature, Freire was a good sprinter. In the later years of his career, he has been more of a classics rider. He was one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen and Eddy Merckx. Óscar Freire Gómez (born 15 February 1976 in Torrelavega, Cantabria) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer.