Serotta custom-built these Colorado II steel road bikes for the Coors Light team in the early 1990sJames Huang / Immediate Media
The Coors Light team was by far the most dominant squad in US cycling at the timeJames Huang / Immediate Media
The fluorescent and pearlescent paint job was certainly hard to miss. Thanks to careful storage, team rider Scott Moninger’s Serotta still gleams like new more than twenty years laterJames Huang / Immediate Media
Serotta built the Colorado II with custom lugsJames Huang / Immediate Media
Note how the down tube and seat tube increase in diameter as they approach the bottom bracket shellJames Huang / Immediate Media
The Serotta Colorado II chain stays featured a double bend – certainly one of the earliest to do soJames Huang / Immediate Media
It’s tough to see but the top tube isn’t perfectly round from end to end, either. It’s tapered from front to back and then ovalized at the head tube, giving it a constant height but a wider profile up front to help keep front triangle flex at bayJames Huang / Immediate Media
