Racing for Slovenia, Tadej Pogačar will take to the beginning line for the lads’s world championship highway race in Zurich on Sunday on a particular, restricted version Colnago V4Rs Tadej.
Pogačar is sizzling favorite to win the highway race on Sunday, including to his wins within the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France earlier this yr. If he wins, he will probably be solely the third male bicycle owner after Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche to to take biking’s triple crown by profitable the Giro, Tour and Worlds in a single yr. Annemiek van Vleuten is the one lady to realize the equal in ladies’s racing.
Despite withdrawing from the Paris Olympic highway race because of fatigue, Pogačar appears to be like to have returned to high type on his most up-to-date outings, using away from the sector to win the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in mid-September.
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 Art from the Fifties and 60s, with Pogačar being an enormous fan of the motion – main figures included Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
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-Nice 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 just at all times want one thing purple in your life. There are TP logos embedded within the design too.
Spec-wise, the bike is sort of the identical as that which Pogačar rides for UAE Team Emirates, simply with a brand new color scheme, completely different tyres, and color matching Enve wheels. Other go-faster element particulars carried over from Pogačar’s staff 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 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 full Colnago V4Rs Tadej restricted version bike is that can be purchased in seven sizes solely on Colnago’s site between 26 September and 14 October and by way of Colnago retailers after 14 October. Complete 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.