Pretty sweet, especially if you're a Cipollini fan. It's on ebay atm and the sellers' gotta be a massive Cannondale fan.
This 1997 CAD3 may look pretty familiar, Why? Well this is the EXACT replica of the Saeco Team bike used in the 1997 TdF for 4 days whilst wearing the Yellow Jersey.
Stage 2 - 7th July 1997
Stage 3 - 8th July 1997
Stage 4 - 9th July 1997
Stage 5 - 10th July 1997
The original Team ridden bike’s whereabouts we do not know, Private collection? Museum? Repainted for another race? Who knows?
These 4 stages changed the future of what we see as normal nowadays, the sight of a rider wearing shorts to match the Grand Tour leader’s jersey is a pretty standard affair. Cipollini, though, was a pioneer in this regard. Cannondale, the clothing manufacture for the Saeco team, was the first brand to kit out a rider in a head-to-toe colour-coordinated kit.
Sure, they may just have only been different coloured shorts but wow did they generate publicity. The fact that Cannondale also matched the bike to the jersey didn’t go unnoticed either. He was fined for wearing an all-yellow outfit while leading the Tour de France; and now this practice to wear more yellow and even have a yellow bike has since become generally accepted.
These antics violated UCI regulations, which resulted in Cipollini and his team being fined a few thousand Swiss francs.
Pretty sweet, especially if you're a Cipollini fan. It's on ebay atm and the sellers' gotta be a massive Cannondale fan.
This 1997 CAD3 may look pretty familiar, Why? Well this is the EXACT replica of the Saeco Team bike used in the 1997 TdF for 4 days whilst wearing the Yellow Jersey.
Stage 2 - 7th July 1997
Stage 3 - 8th July 1997
Stage 4 - 9th July 1997
Stage 5 - 10th July 1997
The original Team ridden bike’s whereabouts we do not know, Private collection? Museum? Repainted for another race? Who knows?
These 4 stages changed the future of what we see as normal nowadays, the sight of a rider wearing shorts to match the Grand Tour leader’s jersey is a pretty standard affair. Cipollini, though, was a pioneer in this regard. Cannondale, the clothing manufacture for the Saeco team, was the first brand to kit out a rider in a head-to-toe colour-coordinated kit.
Sure, they may just have only been different coloured shorts but wow did they generate publicity. The fact that Cannondale also matched the bike to the jersey didn’t go unnoticed either. He was fined for wearing an all-yellow outfit while leading the Tour de France; and now this practice to wear more yellow and even have a yellow bike has since become generally accepted.
These antics violated UCI regulations, which resulted in Cipollini and his team being fined a few thousand Swiss francs.
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