With the UCI world championships already nicely underway and the boys’s highway race quick approaching, a torrent of recent tech has been breaking cowl, and an identical stream of customized colourways are cropping up round Glasgow.
We’ve already highlighted the new Hope observe bike, which doubled its seatpost depend in a novel design. Elsewhere, Canyon unveiled Chloe Dygert’s new Canyon Speedmax CFR Monitor, shortly after asserting it had accomplished the sudden and discovered the tartan paint.
At the moment it’s the flip of Colnago, with its sponsored Slovenian famous person, Tadej Pogačar, who might be using a brand new ‘Glass-wegian’ version V4RS race bike round Sunday’s 271km Scottish strade between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The restricted version colourway was designed by Pogačar himself, with assist from the Colnago group. It’s described as a ‘prismatic varnish’ and options holographic pigments that create particular colour-changing results.
As with all iridescent designs, the body’s paint will seem like totally different colors relying on the path of the sunshine hitting it, returning a rainbow-like impact that gives an intentional nod to the rainbow-striped jersey he’ll be attempting to win.
If he’s to return to Slovenia with stated stripes, he’ll have to beat the proficient Belgian trident of Wout Van Aert, Remco Evenepoel and Jasper Philipsen, in addition to on-form Dutchman Mathieu Van Der Poel.
He may even need to put the troublesome finale to July’s Tour de France behind him, through which he completed 2nd behind a dominant Jonas Vingegaard by 7m 21s, the most important profitable margin since Vincenzo Nibali dominated in 2014 after Chris Froome crashed out early.
Pogačar comes into the race as an out of doors favorite. The flatter latter half of the race, which laps Glasgow 10 instances, would seem to favour rouleurs such because the aforementioned Van Aert and Van Der Poel, and even Denmark’s Mads Pedersen who received his 2019 title only a few hours south of Glasgow in Harrogate, England.
In fact, it’s unattainable to rule out the 24-year-old, whose palmares embody a brace of Tour de France common classifications, monument wins on the Tour of Flanders and Il Lombardia, a handful of different one-day classics wins, and numerous stage race general victories.