Colnago C68 Gravel review: An incredible frame with builds and details that don’t quite make sense

For anyone who starts caring about bikes, there are a few names that quickly become a dream bike. Are they the best bikes? Who knows and who cares? I’ve never heard of a kid with a bike poster on the wall, actually, I don’t think anyone has posters anymore, and if they do they aren’t bikes, but follow me here. If all that was a thing, Colnago would be a bike on a kid’s bedroom poster. Colnago is heritage and aspiration turned into carbon and paint and the pinnacle of that is the built-in Italy C series. 

Although the V series is all about speed and performance, the C series is something more. It’s born from performance but it’s meant to sacrifice a bit of that in the name of an intangible feel. This year the latest generation C68 brings that same feeling to more than just the road. This year there is also a C68 Gravel with an eye on the best gravel bikes.