Ernesto Colnago

{{short description|Italian entrepreneur and inventor|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} '''Ernesto Colnago''' (born 9 February 1932) is an Italian entrepreneur and inventor who founded in 1952 and still runs the bicycle manufacturing company Colnago Ernesto & C. S.r.l.<ref>{{cite news|title=Colnago: still making history|url=http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/colnago-still-making-history-38048|access-date=24 March 2017|work=Cycling Weekly|publisher=Time Inc. UK|date=15 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Bicycle Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ufuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA130|year=2016|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|isbn=978-0-241-27888-8|page=130}}</ref><ref name="CyclingNews 2May18">[http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/ernesto-colnagos-best-bikes-of-all-time-gallery/ Cycling News, 2 May 2018, Ernesto Colnago's best bikes of all time]</ref>

==Biography== Colnago began working for the Gloria Bicycle Company in Milan in 1945 when he was 13 years old. He subsequently raced their bikes.<ref name="CyclingNews 2May18"/> ==References== {{Reflist}}

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