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Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) has excelled at the Giro d’Italia by any measure, leading the race by 7:42, and so it’s no wonder that he is set to ride a commemorative victory bike one stage ahead of the final procession into Rome.
Repainted bikes have become a convention for any Grand Tour winner, usually used as a tool to market their flagship offering (sometimes one not ridden predominantly by that athlete in the race) and typically ridden on the final stage of a Grand Tour.
Colnago will have been thrilled to put together an unusually intricate custom design V4RS for Pogačar, as the brand has seen its own gravity-defying Pogačar premium as the Italian bike builder posted exceptional annual results against a context of many bike brands seeing their revenue plummet.
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Pogačar's V4RS has been preserved in all its race-ready glory, fully equipped for the savage Monte Grappa double of stage 20.
Keen tech heads will immediately spot all the unique flourishes of Pogačar's bike build. His unique Carbon-Ti 55 x 40 chainring, equipped with eyebrow-raising 165mm cranks, has already stood out as a unique technical choice for his Grand Tour campaign, and is being employed in this custom build.
His Enve Richard Mille-emblazoned stem has been delicately rebranded, but it's the wheelset and saddle where the real love has been invested in this custom design.
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Look closely and you’ll see that Pogačar's Prologo Nago R4 has been etched with his race wins throughout his career - confidently already showcasing the Giro d’Italia amongst his palmares.
The Enve SES 4.5 wheelset has seen the logo recoloured but also illustrated with highlights from the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
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Indeed the sole component left untouched has been the groupset, his Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 group complete with satellite sprint shifters remains in stock colours.
All together the build represents an unusually intricate and well-thought-out tribute to Pogačar's Giro campaign, but with the Slovenian having seized the malai rosa on stage 2 with no sign of challenge since then, the brands admittedly had time to plan.