NEW Colnago C68: What Have They Done?!
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Today Colnago has launched the new C68, the latest in a long line of Italian made carbon race bikes from the company, which traces its history back to the C40 of the 1990s. In this video we go through all the changes and details, prices and ask the question of whether it's still as relevant as it was in the 90s.
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You know you just made a terrible financial decision when the price includes a man from another continent showing up at your front door to assemble it. Heck, I'm still having financial PTSD because a fancy bag came with the overpriced shoes that I just bought!
One of my first bikes, and this was in the late 80's, was a Colnago SL Super. I loved that bike, it was red/chrome. Rode it until I was hit head on by a car...
Glad to see Colnago adapt the T47 BB, I think this trend back toward the threaded BB, and there being fewer "standards," is only going to be good.
Yet another Colnago I need to add to my quiver of seven that I already have (N+1). Great work Dave, love your channel and hope to see you soon.
This is the Bugatti of bicycles. For a very small elite. If you are not in this income group a Giant will do quite well.
correct. a Giant with the same group set....and wheels....
When the Aethos came out, I thought the idea of spending so much cash on a bike was lunacy, but the magical draw of the Colnago name makes this seem like a sensible luxury buy!
Lottery ticket purchased!
Great video, but most people who buy a Colnogo C series have no interest in a Tarmac.
Love this just on the basis I'm not being forced to disc brakes 🙏🙏
You're only forced to have a really nice job that pays you well.
@@YannickLB
It's a bicycle not a McLaren lol.
@@smy5607 Spiken like a true rich man! Thanks for proofing my point. Couldn't have done it better myself.
@@YannickLB
I'm far from rich lol. I just work hard my life and managed my money.
I have c68 on Bike Ahead Composites Biturbo wheels and Sram Red. In 20 years of riding I think I find the best combination of everything. Honestly best bike I’ve ever had.
Hope you get to try the bike soon. Looking to get your thoughts if it maintained the superior ride quality. I definitely think there’s a market for the premium non-racing bicycle but competition for me are actually racing bikes which if you combine with wider tyres and even tubeless, the ride quality is excellent as well. I don’t race but opted for the DOGMA F12 and absolutely love it. It’s a cool-looking comfortable ride . What else can you want ?
Light weight?
Yes, this looks great. I love the 64 and like to see updates to this line. Keeping lugged is the main concern for me and they are keeping it with the 68. Ordering asap. :)
Exactly what Colnago needed to do. To return to being known for making the best bikes, hand made, in Italy. Colnago is a premium product, so good to see it return to its roots, not just badging up Giants (good though they are). While out of my league price wise (despite previous C50, C60, C64, prices move on), its not much more than eg Pinarello and Specialized (LMFAO) charge and you'll be getting a superior product with luxury service. Great to see the Ferrari of bikes back. Like it or not, this is the only way for a small maker to survive.
Well no. A supercar goes supercar fast, it has clear measurable differences from a far cheaper car. This bike though isn't objectively different from thousands of others. Let me know when this bike gets you off the lights 3x faster and its top speed is twice as fast, then the comparison is valid.
A super car won’t get you from A to B any faster than a cheap car when you factor in speed limits and traffic though… 😜
@@kidShibuya LOL, just a cultural comparison, chaps! We all know its still in the legs, but with a Colnago, the heart too! But not being funny, the price gap is closing between the two...
@@jameshoward9700 Colnago gets you in the heart and the wallet.
@@edroberts-graver3223 True. T’was ever thus!
Hi David, great review on a beautiful bike. Will this bike accept a mechanical group set and would you consider a Campagnolo chorus or even a record group set rather than an electronic group set? Also, how would this bike compare to a Pinarello Dogma F?
It's electronic only I'm afraid
The titanium lugged version is a shot at Bastion.
Had a C40 back in late 90s - must have been the only person who didn't like! 😀 My steel Master was one of the best bikes I've ever had. Gotta say, that blue and gold version is absolutely stunning, but £16K - that's madness. Plenty people will pay it, I'm sure. I certainly would if I could.....
I've got a C40 like the one in the video sitting in the garage, but I don't ride it any longer. I do still ride my steel Colnago Conic SLX to work. The C40 is good, but I don't really have a use for it, so I might put it on eBay and get more out of it than I paid for it used. Colnagos hold their value.
interestingly CUBE's top carbon material is also called C68.
Much preferred the look of the C64/C60
Looks nice but definitely not worth the price tag. I don't give a stuff where it's made, most carbon frames are basically the same. I doubt this is any much different to a giant. What was that bike you looked at recently? TIME? Now that's a bike worth the money
Q talla de cuadro es la que sale en el vídeo ?
beautiful bike but as always new on high tech on bike racing world it will for sure costs a big amount of money
well i'm still waiting for my C64 ordered last December so hell may have frozen over by the time C68s are delivered.
Hopefully your wait is almost over too, Martin. I was upgrading from C50 and ordered my c64 (Mapei) in late Nov. Mine arrived 4 days ago (to me in US) via a great Latvian shop - Brava Cycles. I'm happy with what I just rec'd, no regrets...in fact feel blessed I got a slightly more affordable Colnago C than this new one. Plus, Mapei is 'flashy' but a truly amazing and unique handprinted look just the same.
I’m sure it will be lovely but glad I bought my C64 last year 😀
Wow interesting. I wonder if these changes will be accepted by the traditionalists or if the C64 is the ‘final classic’ and will fetch a premium going forward
That’s a really good question. I could see the current bike being snapped up quick before it disappears
Totally, especially in rim brake, mechanical form. The last (and one of the best) of the old school…
I've seen them online and ready to ship, so no premium.
Obviously not the (photo shopped) bike you presented a few weeks ago as the new Colnago.
No, that turned out to be some mad concept bike that was killed off instantly
I only buy the round years... 40, 50, 60...and then 70.
Me too, but I stopped with the C40 as I couldn’t afford anything newer. Still just under 7kgs with Enve 3/4s and tubulars.
Friends don’t let friends ride Shimano.
If I had the cash and if I love Colnago enough, I would buy this over a V3RS.
I’m getting older. I’m not racing.
Sure … why not? 🤷♂️
Though, I’m more into Bianchi and I’m too poor to afford a C68 🤣
Nice V3RS!!! ......oh hey, wait a minute...
Can a 15k bike be relevant to a general bike market?
Can a $3 million car be relevant to a general car market?
@@davidrees1840 no
Not sure Colnago are interested in the general bike market with this model. It's their flagship - showing off what they can do with their traditional skills
@@wattier8218 Oh, thanks, I wasn't sure if I needed to upgrade from my Honda.
@D. W. i very much doubt that u have multiple 15k bikes in your area. Maybe colnagos, but excluding the special editions the most expensive one built until now costs less than 10k
Colnago is the absolut top brand - however Never the most innovative. The new bike looks a lot the the current offerings from other brands and i Will sorely miss the “old” model look.
A Company Like Bastion Will get a lot more customers now Colnago dosent make the oldschool look bike anymore.
If you look at Colnago's history you will see that he has been overall the most innovative of all.
@@davidrees1840 yes that i know they also innovate but never the first movers not at all.
@@caet49 Sorry, but he has been the most consistently radical and future-looking from the 1960s until today. Among his firsts: Microfusion lugs; straight forks; dual downtubes; carbon lugs to allow custom-sized frames; carbon monocoque; top-end road steel, Ti, Al, CF in the same model year, hydraulic brakes; Ti stem in 1968; gearbox; dev. partnership (with Ferrari, 1st bike company to do this); insistence on not chasing the lightest, but rather promoting safety and reliability; NFTs to protect from theft; 3d-printed lug to allow custom-sized frames, etc. As a fan since the 1970s, I find it really remarkable that he's never really let up in his remarkable career (maybe the 1980s were not great). I agree that they're not price-competitive, but neither is Ferrari or Rolls-Royce. These are a few important examples of Colnago being a "first mover", as most of these advances have persisted, and been copied by others.
Nice bike, but how does it ride? Good luck selling that bike at the price I’ll pass. Besides, we don’t get those bikes here in Texas
Sure you do. I just found some bike shops in TX that have them, and Texas has UPS as well.
Beautiful bike for lottery winners😄
Can't believe Ernesto signs this crap off...!
I read somewhere he has actually not signed it this time on the frame.
@@UA-camfana I heard that he killed the design team with his bare hands
LOL! Reason?
Kinda true. C64 is last model w Ernesto's sig on frame - and his sign-off apparently. Google his instagram comments when someone asked him about the C68. "My name is not on it because I do not own the company and it is not my bike." (or something with that same vibe). Oh well, my brand new to me c64 is 100% a-ok with me. I have no c68 envy. You may, and that is cool too. Big world, lots of choices! Ride what you like and ride allot.
I hope they do the canyon ultimate with all road and gravel options as well.... Would be awesome!
The prices are just silly now. It's putting me off the bikes completely.
Try aviation lol. Airplanes prices are ridiculous.
@@smy5607 You're drunk right? :D
To those of you that like it, good luck. Stark evidence the now corporate brand owners call the shots, full of marketing gimmicks, proprietory headset, internal routing for hydraulic cables, another 'me too' bike. Putting the marketing BS aside what exactly is the point of the C68 ? Not so much a step too far but a complete corporate sell out to maximise revenue. No surprise Mr. Colnago has declined to print his name on this one. Prime example throwing the baby out with the bath water. Just watch the stampede for previously loved C series bikes (and before) and for that Mr. Ernesto and your innovation, you are much loved.
why else go to medical school other than ride a colnago top of the line lugged carbon bike!
That’s more than a custom bike frame set is it because it’s been partly bought out by a investment group.?
Just because someone owns a Ferrari doesn’t mean they know how to race it, I feel the ‘C’ series is for that customer.
Quick ...spell check
😅
These cheap trick bikes.
With shimano Sora.
I'll take two.
🙂❤☺👍😎
I love the frame, but not the #@!$^%& integrated bar and aero stem. You'd better get a proper bike fitting before you buy a bike with this. The maintenance on these is a major hassle as well. They look nice, but the downsides are too much.
C68 is heresy. It’s just now like any other frame out there. The C64 had a lineage all the way to the C40. Why Colnago why? And the V-Series. I don’t understand why a person would now buy this over that. I have no idea what Colnago is doing. At least it sounds they will be financially supported! Disappointed.
Agree comments 100%, except.... sounds will be financially supported ? .......Really ? Perhaps not so much ? Looks like a fast track for the new financial owners to squander the brand they've bought. Happens so often with great family companies in the modern business world. When the beancounters and marketeers control the company rather than the engineers watch out !
I am rather dissapointed with the C68, because there is no real improvement other than just looks.
It was rather challenging to get my C64 at least to 6,8 kg. So much room for improvement. A Festka Scalatore or Time Alpe d‘Huez are both much much lighter. A Dogma F will be much faster.
So i don t get the point of Colnago integrating everything + disc when the whole bike is as aero as a cupboard. An 8 kg bike for 15000€ - come on, whats the point of it ?
For now i will keep my C64 and shop elsewhere.
The reality is that Colnago has struggled with their distribution network, and is now spinning this as exclusivity and shifting the product further up market while simultaneously going direct to consumer to maximize profit on a smaller number of units sold. The only reason they’re not strictly D2C is to avoid pissing off what remains of their retailers.
You cannot compare a Specialised tarmac to a top of the range Colnago. The Tarmac is made in China for a driven down price, flow into the specialised factory for spraying and finishing
All the Carbon parts are imported....Colnago do not make there own Carbon...Its the same thing just a bit of glue now like the Cipollini original Bond...a few pieces glued together....Made in Italy is a bit of stretch!
@@robbiddlecombe8392 yes, 400 dollars instead of 300 dollars, still the highest margin frameset in history
Stu, your comments are not entirely true. The C series is comprised of Toray’s top self carbon manufactured in Japan, not Taiwan or one of their other Asian factories.
the bike for Me.............well? if I were not 'poor as fook'
I’m 28 but I’d much rather have a piece of Italian history over a frame made in Taiwan. The V3rs is probably great but a lugged bike is something special
Taiwan has a richer cycling history than Italy at this point. (Unless someone is just racist of course 🤣)
@@galenkehler I personally wouldn’t compare colnago to any Taiwan created frame. I think Taiwan has a more industrially history whereas Italy is more passion based. Big brands, colnago included use Taiwan for efficiency, not heritage
@@Quickdraw811 to say they don't have passion for bikes in Taiwan is just ignorant or racist.
@@galenkehler please explain to me how making a comment about bikes is racist? I have nothing but the utmost respect for the bike manufacturers and never once mentioned anything about any one particular race.
@@galenkehler How can you literally read "I’d much rather have a piece of Italian history over a frame made in Taiwan" but remember "they don't have passion for bikes in Taiwan"? It's not even close. I'd rather have a piece of Italian history as well because I like Italian bikes, but I'm about as pro Taiwan as they come. Maybe you just see racists in every corner.
$6000 for a frameset🤣🤣
I don't get the Colnago "thing". In fact I don't get the whole Italian bike madness. Maybe the steel bikes in the past had some panache but since carbon frames appeared there are a whole host of brands Worldwide who do it a lot better than the Italians.
Consumers are idiots, simple as that.
Mostly Agreed.
Steel tubing Italian bikes were the de facto standard. Columbus reigned supreme. Italian bikes had style. Panache. Class. Beauty. Aesthetic.
Today, it’s all the same shit in carbon with different colors differentiating most manufacturers’ product.
Aero is nonsense and simply a marketing gimmick but they’re out of ideas. I mean, a bike is a bike, not much you can do to improve a centuries-old machine.
Wouldn’t go so far as to say “whole host of brands that do it better”, certainly not the case. Specialized and Trek up there but don’t compare a Yoleo or Ridley with the likes of Bianchi or Colnago - the latter brands simply have higher standards and spec of carbon, better assembly, QC, paint, etc.
But spending $15k on a bike is just plain dumb. No other way around that.
@@dakrisht Personally I'd rather have a bike from Specialized, Trek, Scott, Merida, Giant, Cervelo, Cannondale, BHS, Canyon, Factor and several other more niche manufacturers than anything from Colnago. Honestly, if it didn't have "Colnago" on the downtube would anyone look at those bikes twice?
Agree - and they don't even bother with Mountain bikes? Apart from Wilier, who produces good ones. Where's the Pinarello/Colnago MTB?
@@WerdnaLiten Colnago has made mountain bikes in the distant past (around 1990), but perhaps the sales didn't do well. I'm not sure why you'd judge a company on whether it makes a mountain bike, though.
"made in italy" 🤣🤣
First 😉
Oooooohh FFS no no no no no no no no no no no no! that's a few big pieces of Chinese carbon and a Chinese fork (nothing wrong with Chinese btw)....Made in Italy being a few dabs of glue....If you think this is a genuine handmade in Italy frame think again...Ohh dear. This might be the nail in coffin for the brand.
A huge mistake and a classic case of not knowing who you Customers are...
Oh and own a C64, having had two C60's...I'd never buy this bike in a million years
@S Stu02 I fear you may be right.
Certainly seems to signal corporate investment owners (Chimera LLC) want a quick return on their investment of less than 2 years ago. So ......stuff the price sky high, significantly narrow and /or de facto change the customer base to generate more money for less work (or so they hope), produce a generic 'me too' bike. Oh and into the bargain seemingly sideline the core ethos of their consultant one of the greatest designers and engineers of top end bikes in the last 7 decades. Hm .......Chimera ? Isn't that some cobbled together mythical beast ....head of a goat and torso of a donkey or something ? Couldn't be any further distant from the Colnago / Ferrari ethos if it tried.
Someone pls tell Colnago that it’s 2022. No cyclists that actually matter need a round tubes, exposed cables and rim brake bike lol
Disagree -that's all 3 of my check boxes!
Ah the cycling marketing bs has gone straight to this lads head like Russian propaganda.
@@playmoreguitar5393 This person is an advocate for integrated internal routing. I've seen multiple comments of his/hers talking about how much he/she likes it.
I for one, prefer conventional internal routing and external routing in the long run.
@D. W. "Matter to him," which is probably not much of a issue. :)
@@yonglingng5640 Amen