Colnago bikes notched up yet another pro­fes­sional vic­tory at the Tour of Austria, with Italy’s Alessandro Bazzana (Team Type 1 – Sanofi) win­ning the uphill sprint to the line in Innsbruck after an excel­lent lead out from his team­mate Georg Preidler, who fin­ished fourth and also pulled on the best young rider’s white jer­sey. Marcoa Canola of the Colnago-CSF Inox team fin­ished third in the sprint to the line.

Bazzana pulled on the race leader’s yel­low jer­sey and the red points’ jer­sey, mak­ing it a day of cel­e­bra­tion for the US-registered team that uses cycling to spread a mes­sage of hope and inspi­ra­tion for the dia­betes community.

Bazzana raced on a stun­ning black and white Colnago M10 S bike, our mono­coque model that sits at the top of the Colnago range along­side the Colnago C59 Italia –used by other rid­ers at Team Type 1- Sanofi. The 2013 Colnago M10 S uses new lam­i­na­tion tech­nol­ogy and com­pos­ite mate­ri­als and is com­pat­i­ble with both elec­tronic gears and mechan­i­cal gears. It is just one of many updates that were unveiled on our new website.

Bazzana said: “In the final lap the pelo­ton all came back together, and we talked among the team to find out who was feel­ing strong. I felt very good all day, and so Preidler got in front of me with 5km to go and took me all the way to the front.”

“In the final 1000m the road went uphill very sharply, and I watched some other teams try to get away on the final hair­pin curve. With 50m to go I saw the last rider in front of me cracked and I passed him with no time to take my hands off the handlebars.”

The Team Type 1 – Sanofi squad in Austria includes Rubens Bertogliati, Laszlo Bodrogi, Alexander Efimkin, Jure Kocjan, Daniele Colli, Javier Megias Leal and local hero Georg Preidler. The Colnago- CSF Inox team are also com­pet­ing, with a team lead by Sacha Modolo.

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