‘Working with lugs we can better control the position of the carbon and check the lamination and thickness, which gives us the opportunity to properly tune the characteristics of the frame and increase the strength and crash resistance,’ says designer Davide Fumagalli. Tube lugs: Iconic and pretty darn pretty it may be, but the C60’s lugged construction isn’t just for show. Now, in 2014, it’s the time of the C60, which, you’ve guessed it, coincides with Colnago’s 60th year in the bicycle business. In 2012 it was the turn of the C59 ‘Ottanta’ – or 80 in Italian – to celebrate Ernesto’s octogenarian year. In 1994 it was the C40, which claimed five Paris-Roubaix wins over the next seven years. In 1989, 35 years after Colnago was founded, it was the C35, its first production carbon fibre frameset designed in conjunction with Ferrari. And like all birthdays, the occasion is marked with gifts. The first has been celebrated every year since the birth of the man, Ernesto, in 1932 the second every year since the birth of the brand, in Cambiago, Italy, in 1954. Much like the Queen, Colnago has two birthdays. From the most fabled of Italian stables bolts the brand new C60, and it might just be the only bike you’ll need
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