Legendary Italian bike maker Colnago has just announced its first proper aero bike and it’s called the Concept. In the appropriately grand setting of a German castle in a small town just up the road from the Eurobike trade show, Ernesto Colnago himself unveiled the new machine, which joins the C60 and the V1-r to complete the brand’s range of top-end race bikes.
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The new bike’s name harks back to the original 1986 Colnago Concept, the company’s first carbon bike which was the result of a collaboration with Ferrari. But while the eighties Concept was a showcase for innovation, the 2017 version is a full-production, monocoque carbon aero bike with all the features you’d expect of a modern racer.
According to Colnago, the aim of the new Concept is the same as with every other bike it produces: it’s “to make cyclists faster”.
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Aero design
You can’t design an aero bike without going to the wind tunnel these days, and that’s exactly what Colnago did, working through 41 variations of the Concept frameset to come up with the finished product. The result is a bike that bears some resemblance to other mainstream aero offerings, but which differs in the finer details.
Claimed frame weight is 990g without paint, plus 400g for the fork. As with the V1-r, the framesets are manufactured in Taiwan and finished in Italy.
Colnago Concept fork
Colnago Concept headtube and headset
Colnago Concept downtube
Colnago Concept bottom bracket
Colnago Concept seat tube and seatpost
Colnago Concept brakes
Colnago Concept stem
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