Colnago Celebrates his 80th Birthday with a Limited Edition Bike

Ernesto Colnago is 80 today and has celebrated his date with a primary limited edition cycle that is set to embellish a collectors’ item.

The primary cycle is titled the C59 Ottanta â€" which effectuation cardinal in Italian and has a metallic finish. It was inspired by the iconic Colnago bikes of the time that were used so successfully by so many unreal professed riders and idolized by thousands of cyclists around the world.

The C59 Ottanta has Master-like arabesque lug decorations and Ernesto Colnago’s signature, ease is prefabricated from the best possible copy material and fitted with Campagnolo Super Record EPS 11s electronic components.

Colnago is famous for its iconic champion of clubs logo but the C59 Ottanta has a primary nous badge: the original ‘Eagle and Arrow’ logo that was created in 1954 inspired by a head in the topical production that described Colnago as alacritous as an mark when he won a race.

Just 80 examples of this rattling primary limited edition cycle module be prefabricated and 20 have already been snapped up by collectors around the world.

Despite motion 80, Colnago was busy in his duty in Cambiago, preferring to impact than fete his birthday. He is ease the prototypal to come at the Colnago offices, meet crossways the street from his bag and is ever the last to leave. Most people are blithely old at 80 but Colnago does not intend to fling meet yet.

“My 80th date is an grey sprint, it’s the not the finish of my race. I ease fuck to impact and create new bikes. I don’t want a block or a big party, the primary cycle is my way of sharing my birthday,” he said.

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