The 2012 road cycling sea­son has had a string of high­lights for Colnago, and as it drew to a close this week­end with the con­clud­ing chap­ter of the World Tour in Beijing and the final European race, the Tour de Vende, we took the oppor­tu­nity to pick our favourite Colnago moments.

Our first was watch­ing Sebastien Turgot tak­ing a brave sec­ond place at Paris-Roubaix. This race truly is a mon­u­ment of the sport and to take the sprint for sec­ond place in the hal­lowed Roubaix velo­drome is a great achieve­ment. It was par­tic­u­larly poignant for Colnago as it is a race that forms a key part of our his­tory, with the dom­i­nance of the Mapei years and of course sim­ply because it is such a beau­ti­ful race that evokes the spirit of cycling’s “Golden Age” - images from Paris Roubaix are always timeless.

Our sec­ond high­light was the stage win at the Giro d’Italia for Domenico Pozzovivo. Bittersweet in hind­sight as it will prove to be the last Grand Tour stage win for the Colnago CSF Inox team in it’s cur­rent guise. We must salute the diminu­tive climber for his hero­ics this spring. The Giro stage win was a true clas­sic for a climber, attack­ing and drop­ping the lead group of con­tenders seven kilo­me­tres from the end and solo­ing to a glo­ri­ous victory.

Finally, and unsur­pris­ingly, we pay homage to Thomas Voeckler’s ride in the Tour de France, and in par­tic­u­lar the sec­ond of his two stage wins. The Frenchman soloed to vic­tory on a clas­sic Pyreneen par­cours that included some of cycling’s most iconic cols, rid­ing alone for much of the day. To cap a per­fect stage, he also retook the Climber’s Polka Dot jer­sey, a clas­si­fi­ca­tion he would hold all the way to Paris. Chapeau!

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