Colnago.
Where legends begin.
From Merckx to Pogačar, Colnago has built frames for the greatest champions across seven decades. Every model is a masterpiece of Italian engineering.
Seven decades of
excellence.
Ernesto Colnago founded his workshop in Cambiago, Italy in 1954 and spent the next seventy years building the most revered frames in cycling history. His bikes carried Eddy Merckx to the Hour Record, powered Giuseppe Saronni to the World Championship, and dominated Paris–Roubaix with the revolutionary carbon C40.
Today, Tadej Pogačar continues the legacy on Colnago — winning four Tours de France, the Giro d’Italia, five consecutive Il Lombardia titles, two Tours of Flanders, three Liège–Bastogne–Liège, and two World Championships. Over 100 professional victories, all on Colnago. The greatest palmarès of this generation, built on frames from Cambiago.
Today, Tadej Pogačar and Team UAE Emirates ride Colnago at the highest level of professional cycling. The V5Rs is the lightest Colnago ever made. The Y1Rs redefines aerodynamics. The C68 continues the handmade Italian tradition with modern engineering precision.
When you buy a Colnago, you don’t just buy a bicycle — you become part of the most storied lineage in cycling history.
Roubaix 1996 — three riders,
three Colnagos, one podium.
owned the Hell of the North
Johan Museeuw, Gianluca Bortolami, and Andrea Tafi — three MAPEI–GB riders on Colnago C40 carbon frames — rode into the Roubaix velodrome together and swept the podium. First, second, third. All on Colnago.
It was the moment that proved carbon could conquer cobblestones. The Colnago C40 — the first successful carbon frame in the classics — had already won with Franco Ballerini in 1995. But a 1-2-3 finish was something cycling had never seen at this level. MAPEI–Colnago didn’t just win the race. They owned it.
Giorgio Squinzi funded the dream. Ernesto Colnago built the frames. Together they created the most dominant team in cycling history.
