Another marketing gimmick. Most of those bikes will be bought by those who merely want to resell or collect. They are not really built with the intent of riding them; and those that ride them are fools or probably bought 2. They are not worth even half their cost as are most bikes. Bikes are one of the most overpriced items made nowadays. Mattresses are worst considering their level of engineering and materials used. Colnago pulls this game everytime Ernesto has a birthday and the company has an anniversary ending in 0 and 5. Why not do it every year? Those with trash cash will buy them.
I would not own that bike if it was given to me. It would please me to take a sledge hammer to one since it serves no realistic purpose. It will never win any professional race so why build it? For greed. If Colnago gave a damn about their followers they would just donate them via contest/lottery, etc. Colnago is just another company that forgot about how they got where they are now, and who got them there in the first place; those would be small shops and struggling low income riders/racers. Trek is even worse being now a capitalist bully.
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I think this serves a particular niche that would appreciate what Colnago does for cycling in general, I'd pick this over the Y1RS or the V4RS if I had the dough to spend on a $40k bike haha
I tried to research this frame while disregarding Colnago's self-appreciation. They do not provide any information aside from touting 3D printing of lug conjunctions. There are different types of methods for doing that and though not one mention of the technique Colnago used. It's not something that Colnago invented or adapted to metal component fabrication; they are merely applying it to bicycle lugs. It is better than the other methods, who knows? If you are going to use a technology in this industry then it should apply to the making a reasonably priced product that has merits other than as an (apparently) intentionally made collector's item.
"This edition is for those seeking not just a bicycle but a piece of Colnago’s history to take on the road, where past and future converge with every pedal stroke." That's the "blah, blah, blah" that Colnago writes of this frame. It is meaningless!
And then: "The elasticity and memory of steel deliver an authentic, vibrant, and unmistakable ride feel." There is nothing said about this frame that cannot be said of any steel frame whether made of high tensile "gas pipe" tubing or ultralight tubing. Of course, since it has a carbon fork it kind of makes the name "steel" novo fall flat on its face. Do not promote the feel of steel if you are not confident enough to use a steel fork.
The mention of "hidden" seamless welds is again meaningless. A fillet brazed frame or a Schwinn style ectro-forged frames provide the same or similar look. It would have helped to show the frame without paint if wanting to boast about how "hidden" the welds are, but I guess that would not be very flattering. To me it would provide more information than words and photos of a finished bike.
The description of internal routing again does nothing to inform me. Just harping on a feature that existed 75 years ago. And then to compare its looks to a carbon frame is laughable. Why would I want a steel frame that looks like any other "cookie cutter easy-bake oven" carbon frame. I agree, it looks very carbon like. So why not compare its characteristics with a carbon frame. Weight, stiffness, etc. in order to fairly compare other frames.
The frame only (unpainted) weight of 1.9Kg/4.2 lbs is nothing to write home about so I'm still at a loss as to what makes this frame something so special; and that is on their small 485 frame so they are hedging the number with using a small unpainted frame instead of a medium sized finished frame. I would embarrassed also given modern steel technology and all the special lugs and welding put into it.
No mention of tubing specs so I guess nothing special there except another Columbus decal that has no meaning. For all we know it's their old "cyclex" alloy.
With supposedly only 70 units being made and 7 sizes from XXS to L, one has to wonder what they are thinking other than a money grab for whatever sizes get ordered first, as I do not see much of a call for 420 or 455 sizes being made in advance. Frame can fit 35mm tires so not really a racing bike, though I could do more off-road riding than with my 25's.
Overall, seems like a casual use frame made those with deep pockets who would buy it whether it had 3D printed stuff or not.
Great for Colnago, but not for the industry as a whole.
No mention of how the post binder workdls and Colnago is too embarrassed to show the an NDS view; so either is uses a quill style seat post or the binder bolt uglies it up too much to show it.
I'm patiently waiting for the curved fork to be used as the "Novo" collectors frame. It have a Colnago "precisa" fork new and uncut since I refused to muck up a perfectly good looking frame with it. The ugliest frame feature to hit the market.
I'll just ride my old frames and be happy that I never spent that much money on my best Jaguar (and it came fully equipped!).
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