Is that this the Colnago bike on which Tadej Pogačar will cement his triple crown?
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Racing for Slovenia, Tadej Pogačar will take to the beginning line for the boys’s world championship highway race in Zurich on Sunday on a particular, restricted version Colnago V4Rs Tadej.
Pogačar is scorching favorite to win the highway race on Sunday, including to his wins within the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France earlier this yr. If he wins, he can be solely the third male bike owner after Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche to to take biking’s triple crown by successful the Giro, Tour and Worlds in a single yr. Annemiek van Vleuten is the one lady to attain the equal in ladies’s racing.
Regardless of withdrawing from the Paris Olympic highway race because of fatigue, Pogačar appears to have returned to high type on his most up-to-date outings, driving away from the sector to win the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in mid-September.
His bike for the World Championships is available in almost-rainbow colors, possibly pre-empting a possible victory. Colnago says that the color scheme is impressed by all of the successes Pogačar has already achieved in his professional profession and that the design emulates Pop Artwork from the Nineteen Fifties and 60s, with Pogačar being an enormous fan of the motion – main figures included Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
The design’s colors embody yellow, white, and polka dots for Pogačar‘s Tour jerseys, pink for the Giro, inexperienced for Il Lombardia, blue for Paris-Good and Tirreno-Adriatico (and the Giro KoM), and bronze for his Olympic and World Championships third locations.
There’s additionally some purple, as Pogačar has beforehand acknowledged that you just at all times want one thing purple in your life. There are TP logos embedded within the design too.
Spec-wise, the bike is nearly the identical as that which Pogačar rides for UAE Staff Emirates, simply with a brand new color scheme, totally different tyres, and color matching Enve wheels. Different go-faster part particulars carried over from Pogačar’s staff bike embody particular carbon chainrings on the Shimano Dura-Ace cranks, bottle cage bolts, X-rotor disc brake rotors and superlight thru-axles, all made by specialist Italian producer Carbon-Ti.
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The Prologo Nago R4 Nack 147 saddle has additionally had the particular version therapy, incorporating the names of a few of Pogačar‘s most vital victories – and the compulsory yellow accents. Even the mech hanger is a particular version.
The entire Colnago V4Rs Tadej restricted version bike is available for purchase in seven sizes solely on Colnago’s website between 26 September and 14 October and through Colnago retailers after 14 October. Full with Shimano Dura-Ace, Enve SES 4.5 wheels and Colnago CC.01 bars, wanting like Pogačar will set you again a cool €17,200.
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