Colnago Spiral Conic

Available for sale this sought after beautiful Vintage Super Light Weight!
COLNAGO www.rbinc-sports.com

SPIRAL CONIC

COLUMBUS SLX STEEL

SPIRAL CONIC COSTUM FOR COLNAGO
WITH PRECISA STEEL CHROMED
FORK
55cm top tube
56cm seat tube to top of lug



USED - GOOD CONDITION
AS YOU CAN SEE IN PICTURES THE PAINT JOB IS NOT PERFECT.. BUT NO DENTS, NO RUST AND GOOD STRIGHT FRAME!!
VERY HARD TO FIND!
Frame weight is 1632 g
Fork Weight is 692g

Colnago
High end Italian road bike manufacturer founded by Ernesto Colnago in 1954 in Cambiago. Colnago started as an apprentice when he was just 13 but his racing career ended early after a bad accident. He is famed for his creative innovations and experimentation and has a reputation as one of the best custom road race brands in the world. The marque is still exceptionally highly regarded and until as late as 2006 their full range of bikes were made in their own Italian factory.

From the late 1960s through the 1970s, Colnago was generally regarded as one of the builders of the world's best custom road race frames. In 1960, Colnago saw fame as Luigi Arienti rode to a gold medal at the Rome Olympics on a Colnago bicycle. In 1963, Colnago joined the Molteni team as head mechanic, and riders such as Gianni Motta raced on Colnago bikes. A win on a Colnago in the 1970 Milan-San Remo race by Michele Dancelli for the Molteni team inspired Colnago to change his logo to the now-famous 'Asso di Fiori' or Ace of Clubs.[2]

After the demise of the Faema team, Eddy Merckx joined the Molteni team, and what ensued was mutual innovation—as Colnago describes it: "Merckx was an up and coming champion, and I was an up and coming bike builder. So it was a real honour to work for a great champion like Merckx. It helped us to grow... when we made special forks, and special bikes." This included the super-light steel frame used by Merckx in 1972 to break the world one hour record.[3]

With a growing reputation from their racing wins, Colnago plunged into the market for production bikes. In the U.S., the early seventies witnessed another bike boom, and

Since the 1980s, while Colnago continued to produce high-end steel bikes, they began to produce bike frames using material other than steel including titanium, aluminum, carbon and mixed material frames. One unique frame from this period, the Bititan, has a dual titanium down tube. Crimped and oversize tubes appeared on the Tecnos--one of the lightest production steel bikes produced, and the same oversize tubes and crimping were used on the aluminum Dream frame. In 1981 Colnago prototyped the CX-1--a full monocoque carbon fiber bike with disc wheels that was shown at the Milan bike show.[6] Subsequently, Colnago worked with Ferrari in developing new carbon fiber technology, and Ernesto also credits their engineers for challenging him regarding fork design, which led to Colnago's innovative Precisa straight-bladed steel fork. They also experimented with multi-material frames, including the CT1 and CT-2 constructed with titanium main tubes, carbon fiber forks and rear stays, and a similarly constructed (although short-lived) Master frame constructed with steel main tubes, carbon forks and stays.

Colnago's early attempts at carbon fiber frames were not commercially successful, but the lessons learned were embodied in their flagship frames, such as the C-40 (1994) and its successor, the C-50--respectively named for Colnago's 40th and 50th years in bike building. These carbon fiber frames set new standards of excellence. Interestingly, they were built using a modified form of traditional bike frame construction, substituting carbon fiber lugs for microinfusion cast steel, and carbon fiber "tubes" for the complex steel tubes used for steel frame construction. Similar building techniques are used in the latest offering, the C59, named (as before) for its year of production.

Trademark
Colnago uses a black symbol similar to the ♣ ("Clubs") symbol used on playing cards.