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Everything Ebykr holds on Colnago: five articles, a Timeline of 24 dated events from 1945 to 2018 and 14 documents in the archive.
The history of Colnago on Ebykr.
Ernesto Colnago, from the Gloria factory and the broken leg that ended his racing to the Cambiago shop of 1954, the unbreakable fork, carbon and Ferrari.
Grouped by format, the most read first.
A timeline of Colnago from Ernesto's broken leg in 1951 and his Cambiago shop of 1954 through Magni, the unbreakable forks and Ferrari to carbon fiber.
The build sheet of a 1984 Colnago Super Pista in Columbus tubing with clover engravings, Campagnolo Record Pista parts, TTT Pista bars and Ambrosio rims.
The build sheet of an all-original 1984 Colnago Super Pista in Saronni red: Columbus SL, clover engravings, Campagnolo Record Pista and 3TTT Pista bars.
Photographs of Ernesto Colnago from 1940 on: the young racer at Gloria, the Cambiago framebuilder and the mechanic beside Eddy Merckx and the Molteni team.
Where Colnago is named outside its own pages: nine articles and one archive document from one other maker.
The articles that name Colnago most often first.
Legnano: The Warrior's Wheels — Cinelli has it familiar crest, Colnago its ace of clubs, Fuji its stylized mountain, Raleigh its phoenix and Schwinn its four-point star -- but Legnano may…
…pairing labeled line drawings with photographs of Cinelli, Hayden, Henry James, Colnago and Zeus crowns alongside the brand's own RB-series fork design. A friend to whom I described its characteristic of…
…brand into an industrial juggernaut (much like others including: Automoto, Bianchi and Colnago, to start the alphabet). They sponsored their first world champion, sprinter Paul Bourillon, in 1896, and soon became…
…of manufacturing was consolidated by a few key Asian OEMs like Giant (Trek, Schwinn, Colnago, Bianchi) and Merida (Specialized, Centurion, Felt, GT) that remain dominant today. Sound familiar? Mercier Méca…
…chief quaternity of classic lightweight Italian bicycle builders: Cino Cinelli, Ernesto Colnago, Alberto Masi and Ugo De Rosa. Twelve pages from the 1984 De Rosa catalog, covering frame photography, the brazing…
…alongside features on fork-crown craftsmanship referencing builders such as Cinelli, Colnago and Richard Sachs. 1994 · Closure · BridgestoneUSA closes, ending the last year the company sold bicycles in the…
…not carry the European romance that inflates prices elsewhere. A 1970s S10-S is not a Colnago and never pretended to be. It is a beautifully executed production road bicycle from a company that had been racing…
…91 of the 206 makers documented on Ebykr. The marks for Accles & Pollock, Alex Moulton, Colnago, Ephgrave, Mercian and Rudge are Ebykr digital reproductions, traced from modern reproduction transfers. Browse the…
…crank: "165 PISTA" and a 4 inside a circle on the back of the right arm of Ebykr's 1984 Colnago Super Pista. A circle runs from 1980 to 1984, so the arm was made in 1984. The collar change of 1978 and 1979. The…
Filed under other makers whose words name Colnago; the biggest share first.
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