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Lakeside Bicycles offers the Colnago C60.

55cm Colnago C60

Since the debut of the C40, Colnago’s C-series frames have combined history and technology along with a soupcon of passion and guts. The C60 is no exception.

Ernesto Colnago decided: It must be stiffer, and lighter, but also must retain the company’s iconic Master star-shaped tubes. It must be built for longevity, and that ride quality must be the primary goal. It must be fast, but there is no need to eek every ounce of performance at the expense of style. “An emotional bike, with soul,” Ernesto says.  Italian soul manifested in a technological tour de force.

Davide Fumagalli, was tasked with bringing Colnago’s specifications to light. It was he who developed the massively over sized bottom bracket, the method by which Colnago has been able to convert the internal gussets of the Extreme Power, Extreme C and EPS to an external manifestation of the Master shape, and the new, somehow lighter than carbon aluminum dropouts.

Everything is bigger in the C60

Like all 'C' models, the C60 was built in Colnago’s Cambiago, Italy, facility, across the street from the home of Ernesto Colnago and painted at Colnago's facility in Tuscany.   The company’s premier frames, including the steel The Colnago C60 in the RSBK color. Available at Lakeside Bicycles.Master x Lite and the C-series, are still “fatto in Italia." 

The C60 retained the C59's Master star shaped, lugged tubes, is 140 grams lighter and a lot stiffer.  Similarities end there.  Compared with the C59, everything is bigger, wider, and stiffer.  

Lakeside Bicycles currently has one C60 in stock, a 55cm standard geometry frame in the MHCF color.  Guaranteed to accept a 25mm tire (though, when pressed, Colnago admitted that most 28mm tires will fit as well.)  Warranty is three years if registered within 11 days of purchase or 2 years otherwise.

At the end of the day

The C60 could be simply viewed as just another Italian frame.  On the other hand Patek Phileppe could simply be viewed as just another Swiss wrist watch.  If you feel that you have earned a little Italian grace and performance (and what is life without a little Italian grace and performance?), then the C60 is a zero compromise object of unmatched technological sophistication that graces the cycling world with quintessential Italian style and excellence.  

Should you decide that you have endured the empty place in your cycling soul that only a Colnago can fill long enough, contact the Colnago experts at Lakeside Bicycles (503-699-8665 or info@lakeside.bike) who will be delighted confirm your passion and enable its successful resolution.