Pro cyclist forced to ride museum bike at gravel worlds
Colnago rushed the “still dirty” bike, raced only once at last year’s gravel worlds, across Italy to Australian Nathan Haas just hours before today’s raceA Colnago staff member, busy celebrating Tadej Pogačar’s third consecutive victory at Il Lombardia yesterday evening, was instead forced into an unexpected mad dash across northern Italy, after the bike set to be raced by Australian Nathan Haas at today’s UCI gravel world championships was lost in transit.
Answering the Australian’s bat signal, the bike manufacturer’s digital manager, Gabriele Sirtori, hopped over to Colnago’s headquarters in Cambiago, just outside Milan, to pick up Haas’ bike from the 2022 gravel worlds, now stored in the company’s museum. Posting a photo on Instagram of the clearly exhausted Sirtori and the 2022 Colnago, safely at the start of today’s race in Spresiano, a relieved Haas wrote: “After a huge effort my bike angels have arrived. You can see in his face this wasn’t an easy day, but his heart is so big he said it’s never a problem.”
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