Racing for Slovenia, Tadej Pogačar will take to the beginning line for the boys’s world championship street race in Zurich on Sunday on a particular, restricted version Colnago V4Rs Tadej.
Pogačar is scorching favorite to win the street race on Sunday, including to his wins within the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France earlier this 12 months. If he wins, he can be solely the third male bicycle owner after Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche to to take biking’s triple crown by successful the Giro, Tour and Worlds in a single 12 months. Annemiek van Vleuten is the one lady to attain the equal in girls’s racing.
Regardless of withdrawing from the Paris Olympic street race because of fatigue, Pogačar appears to have returned to prime kind on his most up-to-date outings, driving away from the sector to win the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in mid-September.
The design of Pogačar’s bike is impressed by his love of Pop Artwork – and the colors of his race victories (Picture credit score: Colnago)
His bike for the World Championships is available in almost-rainbow colors, perhaps pre-empting a possible victory. Colnago says that the color scheme is impressed by all of the successes Pogačar has already achieved in his professional profession and that the design emulates Pop Artwork from the Fifties and 60s, with Pogačar being an enormous fan of the motion – main figures included Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
There’s a mixture of colors and patterns to have fun Pogačar‘s profession victories thus far (Picture credit score: Colnago)
The design consists of a number of stylised ‘TP’s (Picture credit score: Colnago)
The design’s colors embody yellow, white, and polka dots for Pogačar‘s Tour jerseys, pink for the Giro, inexperienced for Il Lombardia, blue for Paris-Good and Tirreno-Adriatico (and the Giro KoM), and bronze for his Olympic and World Championships third locations.
There’s additionally some purple, as Pogačar has beforehand said that you simply at all times want one thing purple in your life. There are TP logos embedded within the design too.
Carbon-Ti provides its X-rotor brake rotors and particular version gold thru-axles (Picture credit score: Colnago)
Spec-wise, the bike is nearly the identical as that which Pogačar rides for UAE Workforce Emirates, simply with a brand new color scheme, completely different tyres, and color matching Enve wheels. Different go-faster element particulars carried over from Pogačar’s workforce bike embody particular carbon chainrings on the Shimano Dura-Ace cranks, bottle cage bolts, X-rotor disc brake rotors and superlight thru-axles, all made by specialist Italian producer Carbon-Ti.
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The blue direct mount mech hanger comes from Danish agency Framesandgear (Picture credit score: Colnago)
The Prologo Nago R4 Nack 147 saddle has additionally had the particular version remedy, incorporating the names of a few of Pogačar‘s most vital victories – and the compulsory yellow accents. Even the mech hanger is a particular version.
The entire Colnago V4Rs Tadej restricted version bike is in the stores in seven sizes completely on Colnago’s website between 26 September and 14 October and through Colnago retailers after 14 October. Full with Shimano Dura-Ace, Enve SES 4.5 wheels and Colnago CC.01 bars, trying like Pogačar will set you again a cool €17,200.
