Making A Carbon Road Bike The Colnago Way | Colnago Factory Tour

Is this why everyone dreams of owning a Colnago C68? In this video, we’ve been given full access to the Colnago headquarters – the birthplace of the C68 road bike, C68 Allroad bike and C68 gravel bike! It’s a place steeped in history, and yet proves year after year that it’s more than capable of creating lust-worthy modern road and gravel bikes, as well as road race bikes capable of keeping the world’s best road cyclists such as Tadej Pogacar at the front of the pro cycling peloton.

Here’s how Colnago make the iconic C68 road bike as well as what’s next and what makes Colnago special…

Let us know in the comments below which Colnago bike you’d most like to cycle on!

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⚫️ In this video

0:00 Introduction
1:01 Colnago history
1:58 The Colnago C68
2:15 How a carbon fibre bike is made
3:18 The Design Phase
4:00 C68 Titanium
5:30 Quality and Tolerances
6:30 The C68 Frame
7:00 C68 Ride review
7:43 What makes a bike good?
9:00 What’s next?
11:35 Outro

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if you listen to a conspiracy theorist then they’ll tell you that all modern bikes are made out of plastic and are rolling off the production line from one Factory in China to be fair I can sort of see where they’re coming from a lot of the recent super bikes do look eerily similar however in typical Italian fashion there is a Mark that claims to do things a bit [Music] differently if you haven’t already guessed then this is the kago headquarters a place steeped in history and yet proving year after year that it’s more than capable of creating lustor modern bikes as well as those capable of keeping the world’s best at the front of the field so how do they do it what goes into the making of a bike that manages to set itself apart from the competition and what’s next for one of the most famous sing brands in the world well in this video we’re going to find out when you think of kago you might think of pacha’s bright yellow V3 RS which could possibly be the last ever Rim break bike to win the Tour to France you might think of Eddie ms’s famous hour record setting bike that weighed just 5.75 kilos you might think of the C40 the first carbon fiber bike to win a grand tour and also the first win at par rube this one has a pure gold head tube emblem perhaps the V4 RS winning just about everything under the sun with UAE team emirats arms up high FES out drops down there he is down 7% arms up the whole square is in ecstasy what a performance what a man and he stops raises his bike well it’s an extraordinary thing but personally I think about the c68 a bike that just seems a little bit more special than anything else currently on the market but why it certainly doesn’t claim to be the fastest bike in the world nor the lightest and yet everyone wants one we’re better to start than where it’s made this is cambiago just outside Milan in Italy and it’s here that the c68 and new c68 gravel are made well other than the bits that are made down the road the c68 starts off its life as sheets of carbon fiber and venito these are then painstakingly turned into ches by winding and laying the carbon fiber into molds as with all carbon fiber this then has to be cured in this rather menacing looking autoclave which puts the carbon under extreme heat and pressure to drive out any air and get that perfect finish one thing that sets the c-s series bikes apart from others is that unlike most modern carbon bikes including the V4 RS the C Series has a traditional lugged construction now you might think that this is because kago has been left behind and is stuck in the past but that couldn’t be further from the truth in fact kago is is just as pioneering today as it has been over the last 70 years did you know that it was kago that was one of the first to introduce disc brakes to the road scene with the c-59 back in 2012 to get an idea of just how capable a bike that was check out road bike Party 2 usually the design phase is uh made up of different phases uh in particular the first the first phase is usually made uh by and and drawing some sketches because by end drawing you can see the bicycle in a wall you can see uh the proportion you can see what it what the in in the whole the bicycle looks like otherwise if you start modeling with some precise very precise software and CAD software you just focus on the T and you miss the wall the whole picture of course in the fter steps of the of the design we also double check the performance thanks to CAE uh software cfd for aerodynamics and when there are some prototypes now thanks also to the 3D printed 3D printing technology we can go in the Wind Tunnel even in the early design uh phase in the present day kago has embraced Innovative technology and whilst the two-part DS wouldn’t look out a place holding a spaceship together I think it’s these 3D printed titanium lugs which look straight out of the future titanium is a very resistant material and is resisting also both to the static and the dynamic stresses coupling the performance of the titanium with the technology of the 3D printing you can achieve a very very complex shape by keeping also the the thickness very very small how this affect the bicycle performance of course from a weight point of view on the other end thanks to uh 3D printing the uh customization is almost maximum in fact this bicycle is offered with some geometri customization that are covering mainly all the all the different riders that would like to enjoy such uh riding experience whether you choose carbon F or titanium lugs on your C Series bike everything turns up here in cambiago ready for assembly there’s actually far fewer machines here than you might expect kago can make a great deal of each frame which is particularly impressive given that the tolerances can’t exceed 0.15 mm by maintaining small tolerances the joint and the glue and the carbon tubes uh can work in in the in the design in the design parameter which make the the the coupling very robust and very precise that is translated directly into uh more into more strength of course and better riding quality further more by maintaining small tolerances all the steps that are required to finish uh to have a good finishing of the bicycle are kept to the to the minimum because all these extra work of course uh they are affecting the the overall uh robustness and the overall quality of the of the product itself because it’s it’s about adding a not necessary material or removing some extra material the next step is to put the carbon tubes and lugs together to make something that begins to resemble a bike and to help out the skilled workers they use these jigs which ensure that each bike is the perfect size the result of all that bonding is this a frame that weighs just 900 25 G or 10 G more for the titanium lugged version from here these rows of frames will then head off to Tuscany for their final paint job before returning here to cambiago for their final assembly look at these each one has been designed on the kago online configurator and if you’re bored and have 5 minutes then you can design yours for free using the link in the description below the result is a bike that’s bang on the money for a tour to France bike and when we reviewed the c68 road earlier in the year student only add High Praise for its stunning looks build quality and ride characteristics in fact du said that for a bike of this style the handling isn’t as quick or Twitchy as you’d expect and by backing things off a touch kago has created a bike that can be ridden fast through the bz without it being a handful Stu concluded with the fact that the c68 is a stunning bike to ride both in terms of how it behaves and the ride feel there is an impressive level of refinement in the ride quality even on poor UK roads High Praise indeed it’s like sucessful bikee of course depends on the the final user that uh the bicycle is aimed to for example talking about Pure Performance race oriented user a successful bike means aerodynamics means sness means lightness and performance to make the rider faster in the end talking about C serus which is dedicated not to Pure uh performance and race oriented bicycle what matters is the quality of the ride for example by using the technology of bonding LS you can explore different technology on one single bicycle in order to make the final uh the final quality ride at the top level for such uh such users as a bicycle designer and mechanical engineer I’m uh I’m working uh both on the model that are Pure Performance oriented and going into the wind tunnel doing some simulation cooperating with un but on the other end working on more traditional model and exploring without the the pressure of the 0.5 GS of uh of weight uh new technology and a new new new riding performances kago then is a brand that isn’t afraid of going its own way whilst others fight over the title of lightest most Arrow Etc kaga is quietly innovating the bikes that people want whether you’re Tage patcha or an amateur like me who just loves bikes so what in your mind makes riding or owning a Karo special he this is really something uh particular in Italian we say the magia so the magic mhm so it’s not necessarily always say some tangible you know things it’s very also untangle okay because you know when you ride a kago you you ride a brand with a great legacy again with a great heritage you you are riding a by with a great Style with a lot of history we have a group of people that think 24/7 only about drop bars so when you buy a kago you buy a drop bar bicycle and this is really true because this is what we are able to do we don’t have in mind uh too much extension to other segments so I think our specialization is very very interesting and make us a unique brand in some way if you had to pick one bike past or present from the kog range which one would it be but before we were mentioning the 635 it was really an iconic bike like you know it was the first carbon bike produced in the world so that was really a big milestone for us but now I like to say talk about the modern bikes and this a dual approach that we have in the market because in some way we are C so an Italian carbon frame produced in Italy on the other side we have a v so the two bites for my are eonic important and I think the beauty of kaga is able to interpretate to give answer to two different and very distinctive personas bike Design’s changed quite a lot in the past decade um where do you see kog going next first of all we have really to exploit all our potential in the drop bar categories we are for sure a very important successful play on road we just now reinforcing our strength on gravel but let’s say that we have to be present in really all the Drone bar categories so I see truck I see Triathlon and this is where we’re going to focus so what’s next with kago but I believe next is to continue doing what we are doing right now and so be real we are true with our consumers the mission to become the most desireable brand in cycling uh to be very exclusive uh special high end this is uh next and that in some way are the values and uh that we’re already trying to achieve right now let us know which kaga you’d most like in your garage in the comment section below if you like this content then don’t forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel for more Tech deep Dives we’ll see you next time