Replaceable cups are preferable, but up until now have meant external threaded items, which can’t provide structural support to tubes. As the company sees it, the problem with current press-fit BB options is that their tolerance fit makes them susceptible to wear that can lead to anything from annoying creaks to outright frame-binning. This leads to the objection that we don’t need yet another BB standard (currently there are eight), but Colnago insists it’s justified. So we ended up inventing a new BB “standard”, our ThreadFit82.5.’ ‘Making it bigger was essential to being able to use wider tubes, but that meant we’d have to sacrifice our beloved and problem-free threaded BB. The bottom bracket is probably the heart of this project,’ explains Fumagalli. If you look at at a C60 frame closely you will be amazed at the level of tube shaping and manipulation that has taken place.
However, Colnago manufacture the C60 to be durable too, so at around 900g for the frame, and another 350g for the fork, the new bike won’t ignite the imagination of weight weenies.Ī wider BB shell means the down tube can be wider as well, which further increases stiffness. The furrows (or ridges) add considerable strength to the C60, and as a consequence, a little weight has been saved compared to the C59. Thus, distinct furrows run the length of the top and down tubes, however the tubeset is larger and much more angular compared to the Master or the C59. The C60 uses a new tubeset and matching lugs that are shaped to resemble Colnago’s famous Master tubeset. It provides an aggressive position and geometry, but with a few millimeters added to the rear. The C60 is a race bike, but with that Italian twist that knows road races can be long and road surfaces can be nasty. It'll be available in both a caliper or disc brake version. The headline grabbing bullet points are a new press fit bottom bracket, oversized tubes, bigger lugs and new alloy dropouts, changes that have increased the frame stiffness and dropped some weight. Shortly after, Colnago rolled out a version compatible with disc brakes.Īnd now we have the C60. The C59 came out in 2010, which kept with the same basic construction approach but ushered in oversized lugs, internal cable routing and electronic gearset compatibility. It was joined by the Extreme Power and Extreme C, designed for sprinting and climbers respectively, and followed by the EPS. Colnago first introduced the C40 with its tube-and-lug construction some 20 years ago, then followed with the C50 in 2003, which pushed the stiffness up and weight down. Let's not overstate the importance and high expectations placed on the Colnago C60, the latest in Colnago's iconic C-series road bike range.
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