While other teams exper­i­ment with moun­tain bike tech­nol­ogy, Colnago sticks to his prin­ci­ples and sup­plies Mapei rid­ers at Paris-Roubaix with C40 bicy­cles with Precisa straight forks. Franco Ballerini wins aboard his C40 and is Over a nine-year period Mapei rid­ers go on to win five Paris-Roubaix on Colnagos.