The new Colnago V4Rs hasn’t specifically been the most effective-held top secret in the planet. In fact, the prototype precursor, dubbed the Prototipo, had what amounted to an unofficial launch. Each the previous model and the prototype have what would be respectable palmares for any bike, with the former clocking up several victories at grand excursions and Monuments, and the latter podiuming at the Tour and selecting up Il Lombardia much too. It is tough to dispute that, on paper at least, it’s one of the finest highway bikes on the market place. You’d certainly hope which is the circumstance offered it has a selling price tag north of €15,000 in the UAE Staff Emirates spec model I got to journey for the duration of the launch…
Even though I only acquired to experience it on the start working day for all around 85km, we did pack in a good deal of elevation, which includes ascending the Coll de Charges two times, as soon as from every single side. Furthermore I managed to sneak an further 50km in the next day by working with it as what may possibly be the world’s most pricey commuter bike to go and photograph some WorldTour bikes from other teams that were being acquiring their winter season coaching camps in Spain. This is pretty significantly a to start with-trip evaluation, but all remaining perfectly, I hope to have the bike back early in the new yr to place it through its paces in a much more familiar environment.
Style and design and aesthetics
The V4Rs pretty a lot resembles the V3Rs, and the intermediate Prototipo, visually at any amount. Colnago doesn’t have an aero bike and a light-weight bike, it as an alternative has a bicycle for professionals (the V collection) and a bicycle to “make the really greatest feeling” (the C sequence).
The V4Rs is, as we always be expecting, lighter, stiffer, and far more aerodynamic. Our information piece for the new V4Rs addresses all the key information about precisely wherever it is lighter, stiffer and far more aerodynamic, so if you want to nerd out on it I propose you head there. The brief version is that the total deal (bicycle and rider) is a claimed 19-20 watts faster at 50km/h, as nicely as coming in a lighter deal 47g lighter for the frame, fork, headset and cockpit bundle. In addition to the stiffness at the rear, the major gains in pounds and aero surface to have been designed at the entrance close with the new built-in cockpit and lighter fork.
Details and wattage promises aside, as all those are a lot more or considerably less extremely hard to validate, the ethos of the bicycle seems to be pretty much pro-going through. The presentation, offered to a tiny gaggle of biking media immediately after breakfast at the UAE Group Emirates resort in La Nucia, was unashamedly pro-experiencing. The bicycle has developed to a lot more simply earn at the best