Nathan Haas gets retro 90s Colnago G3-X for Unbound Gravel

Australian gravel racer Nathan Haas has a shiny new carbon Colnago G3X gravel bike to race Unbound this weekend in a hotly contested gravel race that will see 3x street Entire world Champ Peter Sagan on the get started line looking for a win. Haas’s top secret weapon even though, will be retro Italian airbrush style…

Colnago G3-X Unbound retro Artwork Decor custom for Nathan Haas

Haas final put second at the UCI Gravel Globe Series (sure, which is a thing now) race a couple of months back in 7, Australia. Unbound Gravel is not element of the UCI sequence, but a lot of massive names are predicted to clearly show up. And he will stand out in the pack, racing this 1990s retro-fashion Colnago gravel bicycle.

Colnago describes that outdated glimpse as “real is effective of art”, although for several, the airbrush search was constantly over the top flashy Italian design that now feels dated. However, as Colnago has transitioned to a more simple, more modern aesthetic, this feels like a good dose of nostalgia to see the design reimagined.

Haas’ new Colnago G3-X gravel race bike for Unbound takes inspiration from the colours and sunset fade on Kansas’s condition flag, but taken a bit more with a dash of neon.

Can I just say that additional modern bikes want to bring again chrome stays? And that shiny chrome fork appears to be soooo fantastic! (Even though, why in the planet are all the dropouts white alternatively of chrome!)

The Art Decor bike structure even characteristics the silhouette of Nathan Haas himself using the bicycle just powering the headset (…in case he forgets what he’s meant to be executing mid-race?) Furthermore the state’s Latin motto “ad astra per aspera” on the prime tube.

“Via roughness to the stars” is not a terrible motto both equally for the pioneers that settled the Midwestern point out and for a modern-day icon of gravel racing.

Colnago says that designer Richard Pierce ‘curated’ the seem alongside one another with Castelli, and Haas must be decked out in a matching kit also, impressed by the exact same ’90s design. We imagined a brilliant, flashy Euro professional search with plenty of sponsor logos and color-matched shorts? But thankfully they at the very least gave Haas some black bibs for modesty’s sake.

The bicycle alone is the same Colnago G3-X that we looked at earlier this season less than Haas, and the very same bike ridden to win final year’s Unbound by Lauren De Crescenzo.

The G3-X is a bicycle design and style inspired by Colnago’s decades of demonstrated cyclocross racers, and this Kansas Artwork Decor custom made construct seriously does glimpse a great deal like an outdated cyclocross bike. But it is a appropriate dedicated gravel bicycle with bigger 42mm tire clearance (with area for the Kansas mud that is forecast this weekend), longer wheelbase, reduce BB, and generally far more comfortable & stable geometry for long-distance off-street racing.

There’s also 3 sets of bottle cage mounts and a direct major tube bag mount, while no clue what Haas’ race day setup will really seem like?

Regretably for retro Colnago enthusiasts, this is a 1-off bike.

You are going to have to come across your own Italian airbrush artist to recreate this glimpse for your possess gravel bike…

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