Originally Posted by
TenGrainBread
What is Colnago, anyway? For many years it has been a company that employs a few Italians to "design" frames that are engineered and manufactured by a subcontractor in Taiwan. I think maybe the C60 is the only model still manufactured in Italy, and again by a subcontractor. I have no intention of saying this situation is wrong or bad, but given this info it's hard for me to be sad about a formality such as legal ownership changing hands.
I think the steel frames are still made in Italy. At least they were a couple years ago.
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