A gem of a bike, but is this diamond-adorned Colnago worth £100,000? Plus the rest of the week’s tech news from Canyon, Trek, Santini, Campagnolo, and loads more

Is this diamond-adorned Colnagoworld worth £100,000? Plus the rest of the week’s tech news from canyon_bikes TrekBikes SANTINI_SMS campagnolosrl fizikofficial and loads more

We have a packed edition of Tech of the Week for you, including clothing from Santini and Le Col, new lightweight saddles from Fizik, and a Kickstarter project for LED-enhanced pedals, but we’re kicking off with Colnago’s blingest – and most expensive – bike ever…A Colnago Gioiello road bike decorated in gold leaf and featuring a diamond at the top of the fork steerer has sold for nearly £108,000 at auction, making it the most expensive Colnago ever sold.

Colnago has gone big on detail here. Aside from the ultra-posh frameset, the Gioiello comes with handlebar end caps and through-axle caps with a gold leaf finish, gold CeramicSpeed OSPW 3D-printed titanium rear derailleur pulleys, gold spokes in the Enve SES 3.4 wheels… You get the idea: a lot of gold.

“For the Colnago Gioiello Numero 1, in addition to these already special measures, we collaborated with a jewellery workshop, creating a real jewel to be embedded in the bike,” says Colnago.

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