#Mapei colnago c40 full#

The Mapei kit certainly stood out in the Peloton and was most definitely one of cycling's iconic kit designs.

The arm warmers also carried Mapei's coloured cube design while the gloves were blue with the Mapei name in black with a white outline next to the red circular GB logo. The Kerabond name on the side of the jersey has coloured cubes at the start and end of the name. The sponsors names are repeated on the shoulder, rear and sides of the jersey and bibshorts. This design detail comes courtesy of main sponsor Mapei's branding and whose products are for building concrete, sealants and adhesives amongst others. Colnago C40 Mapei, carbon, size 58 frame and fork Condition: Beautifully maintained, newly repainted (from an original C40 Colnago frame) Please contact me. The coloured cubes are repeated on the rear of the jersey and also on the front and rear of the bibshorts. You will have to take a bus or a train to central Milan and from there a train. Como is pretty beautiful year round, but the ideal cycling season here is really from mid March to the end of October.

#Mapei colnago c40 full#

Even in the midst of a shop full of the latest Treks, GTs, Giants, Bianchis, as well as a few spectacular leftover Fondriest frames, there was one bike that captured my imagination: the Mapei Colnago C40. overlapping semi circles of blue with light blue lines symbilising wall adhesive products are behind a bunch of coloured cubes stacked randomly as if they had been dropped in place. Please contact me directly about enquiries or shipping cost . My indoctrination started in earnest once I found myself employed in a bike shop. The main design detail takes up the bottom 3rd of the jersey. The other major sponsor GB was rendered in white on a red circle directly below the Mapei name. At this time, the Sportful logo was still an S but it was half red and half blue on a white background as opposed to the mono colour version used today. Most of the Mapei teamвЂ™s victories came on ColnagoвЂ™s famous carbon C40 model, and later the C50 and C59, until in as QuickStep-Davitamon the team moved to Time frames, followed later by Eddy Merckx bikes and Specialized. The main body of the jersey, front and back, had a lighter blue panel, which the same as current kits, had the main sponsors name on the chest with the kit maker, UCI and bike suppliers logos above the main sponsors name. This applied to both the jersey and the bibshorts. Named for itвЂ™s year of Colnago production, the C40 went on to become one of the most successful Paris-Roubaix winning frames taking 5 victories for Mapei.

The base colour for the Mapei kit was light blue with dark blue shoulders and side panels. Colnago initially had little commercial success with their early carbon frames but learned quickly from their failings and in 1994 released the C40.