The Colnago Master is one of those rare bicycles that is simultaneously a genuine historical racing machine, a piece of Italian industrial design, and a bicycle you can still buy new more than four decades after it was created. It is not merely a modern steel bike made to look retro: the current Master continues the frame family Colnago introduced at the beginning of the 1980s, still using its defining star-profile tubes, lugged construction, and steel Precisa fork.
And there is quite a lot more to its history than the usual story of “beautiful Italian steel bike with funny-shaped tubes.”
