1999

1999

Bartoli wins Flèche Wallone

Mapei wins another clas­sic thanks to Michele Bartoli, which beats the Dutch rider Maarten Den Bakker on the last kilo­me­ter of the Flèche Wallone.

1998

1998

Ballerini’s great­est Roubaix win

Powering his Colnago C40 on his own for the final 70km, on a day marked by foul weather and a crash by his team leader Johan Museeuw, Franco Ballerini takes his sec­ond Paris-Roubaix win. His Mapei team-mates Andrea Tafi and Wilfried Peeters take sec­ond and third after pow­er­ing the break­away from which Ballerini spring­boards to victory.

1996

1996

Mapei sweeps Roubaix podium

Belgian Johan Museeuw crosses the line first at Paris-Roubaix in a choroe­graphed fin­ish after he and Mapei team-mates Gianluca Bortolami and Andrea Tafi escape with 86km to go and prove unstop­pable. All three are aboard Colnago C40s as team spon­sor Georgio Squinzi instructs that Museeuw should win.

1995

1995

Ballerini wins Paris-Roubaix

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.

1994-2

1994

The Mapei era begins

The plan­ets align for Georgio Squinzi’s fledg­ling Mapei team and Colnago as the man­age­ment of the Spanish Clas team - spon­sored by Colnago - decides to reduce its involve­ment in cycling. Squinzi snaps up Clas’s rid­ers and bike spon­sor and one of the most suc­cess­ful col­lab­o­ra­tions of the mod­ern era begins.

1993

1993

Fondriest fastest into Sanremo

Lampre rider Maurizio Fondriest wins Milano-Sanremo on a Colnago bicycle.

1991

1991

The Ariostea years

The Ariostea era begins. Over the next three years the team would win 93 races, includ­ing land­mark vic­to­ries by great Italian rider Moreno Argentin in the Fleche Wallone and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.