![]() ![]() ![]() Extending the discussion a bit beyond just the chainstays for a minute, I'll say that I really like kind of a uniformity of design in a bicycle. Well proportioned, laterally and vertically. My favorite chainstay design of all the Colnagos are of the C59 and C60 (just edited this I had originally wrote C50 but that was a typo), and maybe the early C40's (but they had some issues with bonding of dropouts). It is tall and narrow, which intuitively would imply a harsher vertical compliance than some others, and it was marketed as being super stiff for the likes of Zabel, etc. My least favorite chainstay was on the EPS, the Bayleaf design. ![]() The cutouts kind of ruin that flow a bit, but the smoothed out edges on the C50 are more to my liking than the harder edges on the Bstay (diamond cutout) C40. I actually prefer a single, simple flow in all the tubes, regardless of what bike it is. To be honest, it's mostly been an aesthetic difference for me. Let's see, I've owned the later B-stay C40 (with the diamond cutout and kind of squared tube profile), two C50's also with the diamond cutout but somewhat more rounded tube profile, a C59 and a C60. ![]()
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