[CR]Colnago Oval CX - Correction

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From: "Angel M Garcia" <wa2vuy@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: [CR]Colnago Oval CX - Correction
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:25:50 -0400


Well, this website says the Rominger world hour records were set using a COLNAGO Columbus Oval CX tubed bike in 1994: http://www.bikecult.com/bikecultbook/sports_recordsHour.html The tube sets for other world record bikes are listed as well. I've re-read the cyclingnews.com quote from Ernesto and now I understand it to say that he developed the carbon bike for Rominger to break the record he had already set; the UCI then did not permit the use of the carbon bike. The CR content is that Oval CX came out in 1983.... Angel Garcia Long Valley, NJ
> Re: Tony Rominger setting the world hour record on a Oval CX bike (as
> mentioned below). The ebay lister is mistaken. Rominger's record was set in
> 1994, and in an interview in http://www.cyclingnews.com with Ernesto Colnago,
> Colnago says: "When Rominger broke the world hour record, I wanted to create
> a bike that could be used to break this record. So we developed the design
> and the moulds to make this monocoque bike that would be very aerodynamic
> and in the end, it became a capolavoro (masterpiece).". Pictured is a carbon
> bike.
> Angel Garcia
> Long Valley, NJ