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First look: Colnago EPS MTBK

By Greg Johnson, Cyclingnews.com

Colnago’s new EPS MTBK has hit Australian shores with local distributor FRF Sports commencing shipping of a complete bike weighing just 5.74 kilograms including pedals. While it’s the lightest frame in Colnago’s EPS range at 1100 grams, it’s also one of the company’s sleekest looking bikes coming in a matte black (hence MTBK) look.

The bike was thought to be a one off when displayed at shows last year; however Colnago announced last September that it would add the colourway to the range for 2010.

FRF Sports has fitted out its EPS MTBK frames with a SRAM Red groupset and Speedplay Nanogram pedals.  In addition, FRF also fits a carbon handlebar, stem, saddle and seat post to fit with the frame’s lightweight nature and carbon look. These components come from the RavX range, also distributed in Australia by FRF Sports, with the RavX XRD Sprintmax Carbon saddle weighing just 145 grams.

The company has used an in house wheelset on the lightweight bike too. It’s being shipped with Fast Forward F2R wheels that feature the DT 190 Ceramic bearing hubset.

So what’s it cost to ride around with that all matte black, carbon fibre look? A cool $AU14,599.

The fast forward f2r wheelset uses a dt 190 ceramic bearing hubset.:

The Fast Forward F2R wheelset uses a DT 190 ceramic bearing hubset.

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User Comments

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  • Sram on a Colnago? Geez whatever next, they could have had the decency to put Campag on it. And the wheels are really not up to the calibre of the frame surely.

  • Well they are Australians after all, what do you expect ?

  • nice frame, ruined by the crankset.

    imagine if it had super record on it.

  • SRAM?

    ...really?

  • looks shit

  • What an awfull looking waste of money!!

  • Campagnolo stuff is almost impossible to get hold of in Australia and costs considerably more than european equvilents. It would not be viable to put it on there.

    Not that im saying this is a reasonable excuse for such disgraceful behaviour :D

  • I like that bar-tape, anyone know what it could be?

  • Who gives a rats what groupset is on it? It's a bike, people, it's for riding.... I guess if you're after a cafe prop to go with your rapha socks and jersey you might give a toss.... but what would I know, I'm Australian and we just care about riding here....

  • but not obviously about style eh?

  • Yeah i mean i don't really care if ferrari replace their engines with the ones from rover 200's and while there at it stick on some 14" steel wheels because a car's for driving isn't it..?! Also if campag's almost impossible to get hold of in aus doesn't that make an even bigger reason to (try at least &) put it on?

  • nah, still looks shit

  • LOL

  • What a Pile of Shite this Meccano groupset is. Colnago should only have Campagnolo on it. not this crap from America or taiwan or god knows....judging by American standards the dont go in for style. just look at the Cars they make..another pile of shite.

  • MMMMMMMMMM a colnago not ruined by an campag groupset, looks gorgeous too. WANT!!!!

  • Interesting prejudices at play here... if the frame said Parlee or Kestrel or Trek would you care what groupset was on it? In the early 90's Campy was a substandard brand and Campy apologists would still insist upon putting it on their admittedly excellent steel colnago frames... the driver for innovation in the last two decades has been japan, the US and taiwan...If you really think the colnago bike in this article is special is it because it has the words colnago on the frame? Is it tangibly any better than comparable frames from Taiwan or the US? Unless you can convince me that being manufactured in Italy gives a frame 'terroir' in the same way as wine regions do I must conclude that half these comments are written by posers...

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