Bike at Bedtime: check out the 2012 Colnago C59 Disc
Travel back to a time when disc brakes on performance road bikes were radical, and Colnago was pioneering the new technologyYou might consider Colnago to be a brand with traditional values, but did you know that it was one of the first to bring hydraulic disc brakes to a performance road bike back in 2012? Fast forward to today and hydraulic disc brakes are the norm on bikes of this kind, but the C59 Disc was in there right at the start.
At the time, there was no such thing as a complete hydraulic disc brake groupset for road bikes. To overcome this, Colnago got together with fellow Italian brand Formula. These Colnago-branded hydraulic callipers were mounted to the frame using a post mount system rather than the flat mount standard that we most commonly see today.
Colnago did a good job of strengthening the C59 Disc because it was the bike that featured in Martyn Ashton's famous 'Road Bike Party' video on YouTube. Check out his bike in the gallery above...He said,"Sadly the Colnago C59 Disc isn’t quite the revelation or revolution it might be. It could be the future, just not quite yet…"
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