Colnago C40Ī frame that anticipated the future, according to Colnago, with carbon fibre lugs and tubes (plus alloy rear dropouts) that allowed for a made-to-measure frame. The special edition V3Rs with custom paint created for Tadej Pogačar’s victory in the 2020 Tour de France. The bike also featured a 60-tooth chainring. Made from steel Oval CX tubing squashed vertically to improve aerodynamics and with a small 26in front wheel to allow Rominger to adopt a tucked position. An image of a Colnago bike has fetched almost 8,600 at auction, with the Italian bike maker becoming the first as far as we know company within the cycling industry to have cashed in on the growing non-fungible token (NFT) trend in which digital assets are stored on a blockchain. The bike that, in 1994, Tony Rominger rode to set the hour record on the Bordeaux velodrome. Ridden to victory in the 1982 UCI Road World Championships at Goodwood by Beppe Saronni, and subsequently at the Giro di Lombardia, Milan-San Remo and Giro d’Italia in 1983. Colnago Super ProfilĪ bike that went through multiple iterations and featured crimped tubes.
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Used by the Italian quartet to win the team time trial at the Palermo World Championships in 1994. Designed with aerodynamics at the forefront, with a monocoque carbon frame and small 20in front wheel. Colnago C35 Crono TTTĪnother bike designed in collaboration with Ferrari and presented on the Fiorano circuit. Colnago C59Ī replica of the custom C59 ridden by Anthony Charteau into Paris to commemorate his King of the Mountains win at the 2010 Tour de France. Abraham Olano won the 1995 UCI Road World Championship on this bike. The Bititan was a descendent of the Colnago Carbitubo and featured a titanium split down tube. Colnago Conceptįirst designed in 1988 in collaboration with Ferrari, it featured a lugged carbon fibre frame, a gearbox integrated with the crankset, three-spoke carbon fibre wheels (designed by Enzo Ferrari), an adjustable stem and hydraulic braking. Ernesto Colnago celebrated his 87th birthday at the Old Royal Naval College in London, which is where his company presented the Colnago 87 Oro. This article from The Verge explains just why blockchain technology and its use to determine ownership of NFTs has such a big environmental impact, mentioning among other things that Ethereum, the cryptocurrency that the Colnago was purchased in, “uses about as much electricity as the entire country of Libya.Colnago is creating eight ‘digital artworks’ as part of the C64 NFT auction. Other digital assets to have been sold as NFTs include Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet on the platform, Mike Winkelmann's digital artwork “Everydays: The First 5000 Days”, which went for $69 million at a Christie's auction and, just this past weekend, the YouTube viral video Charlie Bit My Finger, which sold for $760,999.Ĭolnago received some backlash when it announced that it was putting the digital asset up for sale, with criticism centred on the environmental impact of the computing power necessary to maintain blockchain technology (rather than the NFT itself). The purchase price was calculated in cryptocurrency – 3.2 WETH (wrapped Ethereum) tokens, which equates to $8,592 (as Bicycle Retailer & Industry News points out, you could save more than two grand and get a real-life C64 with a custom paintjob). – Tadej Pogačar's Tour de France-winning V3Rs – The C35 TTT that won the Team Time Trial World Championship 100km in 1994 – Anthony Charteau's Polka Dot jersey-winning C59 from the 2010 Tour de France – The Bititan bike that Abraham Olano won the World Championships on in 1995 What the buyer does get, however, is a digital image of a one-off design which brings together elements of: It attracted just two bids, with the higher coming from user MTD-01, who will now have exclusive rights in perpetuity over the image of the bicycle – but won’t, of course, be able to ride it. The digital picture of the Colnago C64 bike, which incorporated elements of various historic models from the Italian brand, was put up for sale three weeks ago on the platform Opensea.io. An image of a Colnago bike has fetched almost $8,600 at auction, with the Italian bike maker becoming the first – as far as we know – company within the cycling industry to have cashed in on the growing non-fungible token (NFT) trend in which digital assets are stored on a blockchain.
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