​HISTORY

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Colnago Ernesto & C. S.r.l. or Colnago is a manufacturer of high-end road-racing bicycles founded by Ernesto Colnago near Milano in Cambiago, Italy. Instead of following his family's farming business, Ernesto Colnago chose to work in the cycle trade, apprenticing first with Gloria Bicycles at 13, subsequently taking up road racing. After a bad crash ended his racing career, he began subcontracting for Gloria, opened his own shop in 1954, building his first frames the same year.

In the early 1980’s Colnago began experimenting with crimping main frame tubes to increase stiffness. In the mid 1980’s, Colnago and Columbus developed the ESACOLNAGO tube which was a round tube with six distinct symmetrical flutes. In 1986, the Colnago Regal was the first bike released with this tubing. The following year in 1987, the Colnago ESA Mexico bicycle first appeared in a Colnago catalogue.
Whilst the ESACOLNAGO tube profile was released after the Gilco Master profile, it did not enjoy the same longevity. The Colnago ESA Mexico was the last model to be built using these tubes and no longer featured in Colnago catalogues by the early 1990’s.

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COMPONENTS

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- Columbus

- Frame size 59cm seat tube

- Frame size 58cm top tube

- Dropouts Colnago

- Full Campagnolo Triomphe

- 52-42 chain rings

- 170mm crank arms

- Regina 7 speed freewheel

- Campagnolo tub rims

- Vittoria tub tires NEW

- San Marco Rolls Saddle

- Bars and stem 3ttt

- Tape bars Benotto