I indeed advice you to try to find them and ride them and experiment with fit before you invest on the right Colnago.
#Colnago c40 b stay full#
I bough my 3 definitive Colnagos full new BTW, they did cost nice coin, but I went for it after I was sure that was the right size and setup for me. The Master is just beautiful, a different feel but also weight range, setup on Standard gearing, alternatively, clinchers, Cosmic aero or alloy tubulars, for days I just want to enjoy the ride. The C40 Bstay is my comfort bike, setup on clinchers, semicompact gearing for longer and more relaxed rides.
The C50 is my stiffer bike, setup with carbon tubulars ( Hyperon and Bora ), standard gearing for more "sportive" rides I found the perfect fit on the 56cm, and I only keep now these 3 bikes because the 3 have paradoxally similar but different and complementary characteristics. On my search for the perfect feel/fit/purpose I went though many brands ( Trek, Bianchi, Ridley Felt etc.) and I've had many Colnagosĥ4cm C40 MK1 with precisa fork, Extreme Power It's true as texbike says, my personal opinion and preference is interjected in what I wrote and with a reason. How do your Dream fit you? small ? big ? ( how long is your stem, seatpost height and handlebar height ?, post a pic) I recently sold one of the first generation C40s on that size, beautiful first generation C40 with a precisa fork, the ride feel was great, just too small for me. Thanks for the help and maybe any leads? haha.ĥ0 sloping is equivalent to a 54cm traditional. That said, I talk from my experience with middle sized C40s on the 54-57 range, probably as wallymann says on bigger frames that could be different. You want an stiffer rear? Get a later 2004-2005 C40 with HP stays.īut, and that's my point, if you want more stiffness and performance then I would go for a C50, and the better and stiffer is the later C50 with the HM carbon and C75 fork or even more the Extreme Power or EPSĪlso the C40 HPs came mostly in NL paint schemes that were not the best you could get. If you want rear end comfort but a stiffer, more responsive front, get an early 95-97 C40 with a Precisa steel fork. If you want a full comfort, with a softer rear, go for a 98-2001 non B-Stay, C40 with a carbon Star fork.
Then you are left with specific frame ride quality personalities.Īgain IMHO the grail C40, the most balanced in terms of comfort/performance is the 02-03 C40 B-Stay with a carbon Star Fork Sold my Engage brakes that was 130g lighter as they wherent feeling that good and didnt suit my Colnago perfectly. If you set aside the "constant" elements one looks for on a high end Colnago, like the Classic Italian racing geometry, beauty of finishes, quality of craftsmanship, history, romanticism linked to the brand.Īll those are "shared characteristics". IMHO, it depends on what you are searching in a Colnago.
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