Colnago Owners / Info / Appreciation Thread

I'm still looking for a C40 but rarely see them in my size and most of the large ones I do see are in boring black which I do not like at all.

I'd love a Taffi-esque Mapei.

Do you ask your customer's permission before photographing their bikes and posting them online? If a bike is locked up in the street then it is fair game... if they have entrusted it to your care then I hope you have asked them.

i have a c40 hp navigators decor i am completing

and i had a mk 1 c40 in art decor i sold before

What material are those C40 Mk1 forks made of ?

C40 HP has a chain stay like the C50
yours is a very nice B-Stay with the lovely star fork , nice colour too
I had a C40 hp but sold it as was a touch small, would love another

syntax error, i keep doing that! that, javascript:void%200maybe i confuse with my c50 hp

i will take the record 11 for the c40 b-stay and replace with super record

Yes I did ask permission.

Very Very nice , in rare naked carbon

very scary !
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Promotion-2014-carbon-road-frame-colnago-c59-size-48-50-52-54-56cm-road-bicycle-carbon/32242575610.html

Would love one of these ... not many about tho that colour
One of the best ever carbon colnago's imo

http://forums.thepaceline.net/showpost.php?p=1688694&postcount=1
Mostly precisa steel fork according to the link.

how much is the going price for a mk.1 now?
there's one sold locally.

The c50 is actually the superlight model as used by Oscar friere,there is another naked c50 with tricolour font that is more common , forks on 1st gen c40 are steel

Now this is why I check this thread on the hour every hour night and day. Thank you saarf for my hourly fix

Yes the superlight slightly thinner walls than the C50 ,I think the lugs are slightly shorter also
Very nice & as you say you do not see many

my pleasure!

yes, thanks
this is friere's one

”’C50 HP Superlight’ isn’t the official designation of the bike that Spaniard Oscar Freire just won the 2004 World Championships with, but before he left for the Interbike Las Vegas show with his Uncle Ernesto, Alessandro Colnago told Cyclingnews about the now three-time World Champion’s race winning rig.

“In his last World Championship win in Lisbon in 2001, Freire was on Mapei and he finished just ahead of Paolo Bettini. Both riders were on C40s, and Freire became attached to that bike, for whatever reason. Even this year when he won Milano-Sanremo, Freire had his C40. This summer, we made some special Colnago C50 HP frames for Rabobank and Landbouwkredeit that you could call ‘superlight'; they are made of a special high-modulus carbon fibre that is lighter and more rigid than the production Colnago C50 HP. Freire likes his very much.”

“In the finale of the Worlds you saw three riders on the attack with these bicycles; Michael Rasmussen, Michael Boogerd and Freire. Plus we are very happy with the U23 men’s road race as Colnago C50 bicycles were ridden to first and second place by the riders from Belarus and the Netherlands.”

Colnago is considering selling a very limited production of these ‘Superlight’ C50s, but hasn’t yet made a firm decision.” ”

The downloadable on that site is a very useful resource, Thank you very much.

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agreed, interesting about the carbitubo
"CarbiTubo -- introduced 1988-89. made famous by guys like konyshev, rominger, riis, fondriest, and sorensen.
distinctive dual-downtube carbon with aluminum lugs, based on the earlier all-aluminum Duall manufactured for colnago by Alan. at some point before the C40 came along there were a couple "mono-tubo" frames spotted in the pro peloton -- basically an Alan Record carbon with proper colnago markings in the lugs. " my mapei gb decor is a"mono tubo"
the author also wrote in the colnago thread in velocipede salon, and i think he identified my mono as mapei gb, http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum/f11/colnago-4964-20.html#post573157

is 500-ish a good price for a c40 mk.1?

i'd say that's a fair price, check the cable guides though as they can tear easy ,check the joins on stays on drop outs as they can corrode internally and bb shell casing as was bonded in and can get lose with age

It's about the time now for C40s - 50s to be coming in for repairs and overhauls, who out there has got the expertise? Do Colnago themselves even bother repairing 20 year old legacy models?

c40 and 50 suffer from corrosion in the stay /drop out joins as no escape holes were put in frames stays, the Benelux Colnago distributor uses a company called Unlimitedcolors.nl in the south of Holland, they renovated my c40 b-stay, sprayed for the Rabobank team and i saw the Belkin team's bikes in there spray booth, if you go to Codagex, they will probably charge you a premium and send to Unlimited, they actually have this Master 55 for sale (but it's sold ( )

#digression
master55 probably only goldie lookin' Colnago I'd wear, ( from a collecting perspective)

I was toying with the idea of fitting 11 speed Record on one of my Masters but thought it may end up looking like Mamil overkill and just stuck with 8 speed which is sufficient for London town. However the gruppo does work well on the above example.

Also I need a threadless precisa fork uncut but can't see anywhere that sells them. Do you think a silver crown Wind up fork would be an obscenity ?

Brick Lane Bikes had a long thread less Precisa for sale about a month ago. It was black and orange, I recall.