Johan Museeuw, Gianluca Bartolami, and Adrea Tafi destroy the field arriving in the Roubaix velodrome together. Here are some of my favorite moments (and riders). While not as prolific as Mapei, they also produced wins astride delicious looking Colnago C40s. The Dutch Rabobank and Belgian Landbouwkrediet teams also waged war on these bikes. The wins upon them were magnificent and filled with spectacle. Squadra Mapei obviously are the main reason I came to know of these machines. Sure, there are equally amazing bikes out there, but none carrying the historical pedigree as these. To this day, the C40 and Colnagos in general are the only bikes that produce chills. You couldn’t escape it, and I didn’t want to. Every magazine displayed their unbelievable (heh!) dominance whilst crushing pedals attached to the brilliantly painted C40.
#Colnago c40 mapei for safe pro
But, I was being sold the Italian masterpiece via the pelotonal marketing assault the Mapei team was waging on the pro peloton around that time.
#Colnago c40 mapei for safe full
Even in the midst of a shop full of the latest Treks, GTs, Giants, Bianchis, as well as a few spectacular leftover Fondriest frames, there was one bike that captured my imagination: the Mapei Colnago C40. My indoctrination started in earnest once I found myself employed in a bike shop. Think of this as the CliffNotes for fanboy cycling history. Even in light of these facts and my apparent inability to provide anything fresh, I shall proceed and continue. Sumptuous, loving images have been captured of its visage. Blog posts have been, well, posted before this. Magazine articles with insider knowledge of construction history have been written before this.
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