It will be known as the ‘RB05’ paint scheme, and Colnago is making only one production run of this frame.
To commemorate their relationship with the Rabobank team, Colnago has just announced their plans to release a special, limited edition C50 HM in the exact team colors of Rabobank. They’re the fuel behind the bike racing craze in a country that has always been bicycle-mad. Beyond their pro team, though, Rabobank is committed to Dutch cycling at every other level possible: Espoir, junior, and women. Between the three of them they have enough really tall trophies to fill up a medium-sized museum and enough UCI points to stump a math professor. Rabobank has three living legends racing for it: Michael Boogerd, Erik Dekker, and Oscar Friere. There’s a reason why the C50 is the most beloved single bicycle in the world: Its technological superiority (which translates into lightness, durability, and an amazing ride quality) is matched only by the breadth of its palmares in the last decade: 3 or 4 Paris-Roubaix titles, plus victories in Milan-San Remo, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the Tour of Flanders, the Amstel Gold Race, multiple road World Championships, countless stages of the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France, and the Vuelta a Espana.Ĭolnago has long had the knack of sponsoring winning teams worldwide, but none of its associations has been as long-lived as its sponsorship of the Dutch Rabobank team. Colnago’s rivals struggle to keep up - not to match their present-day technology, but rather to measure up to what Colnago unveiled a year or two previously. In the time since, the C40 has progressively evolved - the C40 became the C40 B-Stay, which became the C40 HP, which begot the C50 HP and now the C50 HM.
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