With the UCI world championships already properly underway and the lads’s street race quick approaching, a torrent of latest tech has been breaking cowl, and the same 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 saying it had achieved the surprising and discovered the tartan paint.
Right this moment it’s the flip of Colnago, with its sponsored Slovenian celebrity, Tadej Pogačar, who shall be driving 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 look 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 making an attempt to win.
If he’s to return to Slovenia with stated stripes, he’ll have to beat the gifted Belgian trident of Wout Van Aert, Remco Evenepoel and Jasper Philipsen, in addition to on-form Dutchman Mathieu Van Der Poel.
He can even should put the tough finale to July’s Tour de France behind him, wherein he completed 2nd behind a dominant Jonas Vingegaard by 7m 21s, the most important successful margin since Vincenzo Nibali dominated in 2014 after Chris Froome crashed out early.
Pogačar comes into the race as an outdoor favorite. The flatter latter half of the race, which laps Glasgow 10 occasions, would seem to favour rouleurs such because the aforementioned Van Aert and Van Der Poel, and even Denmark’s Mads Pedersen who gained his 2019 title just some hours south of Glasgow in Harrogate, England.
After all, it’s not possible to rule out the 24-year-old, whose palmares embrace a brace of Tour de France basic classifications, monument wins on the Tour of Flanders and Il Lombardia, a handful of different one-day classics wins, and numerous stage race total victories.
