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Colnago C68 £12,449 | 7.3kg

Let’s get the full disclosure/declaration/introduction out of the way first. I am a Colnago fan, I own a steel Master Olympic and the Colnago coffee-table biography that Ernesto Colnago gave me and signed for me when I interviewed him 10 years ago is one of my most treasured possessions. It might sound unpatriotic but the launch of a new Colnago C model in 2022 is the real jubilee for me.

However, fans love what they know best – they go to a gig and want to hear the old hits not the new material – so a new Colnago has to work hard to impress me or there’s a danger I might start retrogrouching about how great the C40 was (see my feature on page

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