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Unbound Pro Bike: Nathan Haas’ Colnago G3-X Kansas Art Decor

Unbound Pro Bike: Nathan Haas' Colnago G3-X Kansas Art Decor

Listen here, Colnago. You need to stop it. This year was looking so good. I loved the new the new TT bike you released, and the C68 sounds great in James’s review, and, yeah, I am excited to find out about that new V4Rs we spotted Tadej Pogacâr riding, but you’ve just gone and spoiled it all.

You see, once upon a time Colnago to me was all about iconic bikes, with stunning paint jobs. Art Decor! Those new bikes I listed above are great, but nowhere did I see mentioned an homage to the PR11, AD10, or PR82. And that was fine. Out of sight, out of mind.

But now you’ve spoiled it all, with one press release title: “Nathan Haas will race UNBOUND Gravel on a Colnago G3-X Kansas Art Decor.”

Out of sight, out of mind has become very much in sight, and I can’t get it out of my mind. You have teased me with this recreation of the classic AD10 and I can’t settle for anything less. Haas gets an AD10 while all I can have is EMIRATES across a top tube? That’s no fair.

I mean, I shouldn’t even like this thing. It’s blue, its chrome, it’s black, it’s fluoro yellow, it’s even got some orange and a rider painted on the top tube. I love it.

Those in the know, know. Some will never understand.

It’s so overly garish nothing has ever been more perfect.

I’m sad because it’s not mine. Please be sad with me by enjoying this gallery.

If you are going to have such a good looking paintjob, at least have the decency to have a terrible build.
Nope, Haas will race with Campagnolo Ekar 1×13 gravel groupset, Campag’s new Levante wheelset, Vittoria Terreno Dry tyres, Deda bar and stem, and a fancy Fizik Antares Versus EVO 3D printed adaptive saddle.
The classic Colnago club logo on the headtube, as iconic as it gets.
Art Decor – often but not always denoted with an AD and two digit paint code – was first introduced by Colnago sometime around the early ’90s and offered elaborate paint jobs with painstaking attention to details and a further differentiator for Colnago to anything else available at the time.
The AD paintjobs often featured an overhead view of a Colnago rider on the top tube. Although Colnago has no plans to release this ADHaas (let’s start a petition) art decor frames are still available, but seemingly less so.
The chrome forks are presumably a nod to the classic straight leg steel Precisa forks introduced by Colnago in the ’80s to improve comfort and handling.
“Ad astra per aspera”, the motto of Kansas in Latin, which means “through the roughness to the stars”.
I mean, it’s nice, but it’s going nowhere without pedals.
The elusive Art Decor logo on the top tube.
I’m not sure where the top tube rider comes from, answers on a post card to: The comments section, downtown this article, CyclingTips.com
The bike has this thing, it can look good anywhere. Like on a bridge,
Or a random lane.
In a ploughed field.
In a lumberjack’s yard in front of some logs awaiting processing into forest products.
You get it.
Why do these colours work?
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