Colnago Owners / Info / Appreciation Thread

Saarf, I expect you'll know - how did the famous connection between Rabobank and Colnago come about? It strikes me that there were/are plenty of good Dutch bike builders, so home come they ended up with an Italian one, just a matter of picking the best frames, or is there an interesting story?

no idea mate tbh
the painters I use occasionally use do work for Codagex , the Benelux distributor, and the did for Rabo team
I went there last year, and in the spray booth they had THE Belkin/Giant team's tour bikes,
swore me not to tell owt, and would'nt let me picture
Rabo only have a womens team now they said , as the bank don't want to be associated with doping
Giant did make Colnago branded tt bikes for the rabobank team