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Colnago Arabesque
Cycling Weekly
|May 04, 2023
The Eighties special edition that’s been given a new lease of life
This Colnago Arabesque is a big bike – and it has a big place in Colnago’s history.
Before the storied Italian brand started its numerical system that celebrated the number of years since Ernesto Colnago founded it in 1954 – the C40 in 1994, for example – there were special bikes designed to commemorate the anniversary.
One of these legendary machines was the Arabesque, unveiled in the 30th year since Colnago’s father symbolically felled a mulberry tree on their land to make Ernesto his first workbench.
This story is from the May 04, 2023 edition of Cycling Weekly.
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