Calling it 4 aces and a wild card, Colnago simply rounded out their C68 line with the fifth bike. Now you may select from the C68 Street, Allroad, Street Ti, Gravel, and now… the C68 Rim Brake. Like the opposite C68 fashions, the Rim Brake is their high tier with a modular body in-built Italy and hand-assembled in Cambiago.
To make the C68 platform settle for rim brakes, Colnago added a number of revisions. These embrace a fork modification to run direct-mount, double-pivot brakes, reengineering the seat stays to just accept direct-mount rim brakes, and including new 3D-printed titanium dropouts.
That makes the bike appropriate with direct-mount, dual-pivot rim brake calipers with as much as 28mm broad tires. Nevertheless, the body can be solely appropriate with digital groupsets that means you’ll almost definitely have to make use of one of many following:
Campagnolo Tremendous File EPS Groupset 2×12 – Mechanical Rim Brakes
Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9250 2x12v Rim Brake
Sram Power eTap AXS 2X Rim Brake Groupset
Obtainable solely as a body package, the bundle contains the body, fork, seatpost, and CeramicSpeed SLT headset. That headset makes use of a “strong lubricating system” which permits Colnago to offer it a lifetime guarantee and hopefully means you’ll by no means need to reroute the cables and housings by way of it as a result of a nasty bearing. That’s much less of a ache right here with out hydraulic disc brakes, however nonetheless…
Obtainable in seven sizes, the Colnago C68 Rim Brake body package will promote for $7,750.
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