And while lugged construction largely died in the 80's alongside steel road bikes, there's little to prevent the C64 from being one of the most-modern road bikes available today.īut if the "all gold everything" conspicuousness doesn't make it immediately obvious, this Colnago is one for the ages. Among other things, this allows Colnago to offer a wide range of frame sizes and either a sloping or a horizontal top tube. While most brands build their carbon fiber bikes through a monocoque construction, the C64 sticks to it's lugged carbon nearly all the way through. Since then, founder Ernesto Colnago decided every namesake bicycle, even this Colnago C64 Gold Private Collection road bike, had to carry the ace as a reminder of Colnago's values, and a memory of the this momentous occasion. 'In fiore', which translates to mean 'in bloom', signified the start of a reawakening for Italian cycling. Because it was the first win of the Milan-San Remo by an Italian in quite a while, well-known Italian sports reporter Bruno Raschi came up with the idea that the 'in fiore' bike won the race. The original ace concept was thought of to commemorate Michele Dancelli having won the 1970 Milan-Sanremo on a Colnago. For decades, the Colnago name has been synonymous with the ace of clubs.
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