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Does the Koga Colmaro Sports look familiar to anyone? That's right, this is exactly the frame on which the Gravel bike Comaro Extreme from the last MYBIKE test built. With its relatively long top tube and short wheelbase, it already shone there, but as here, especially in combination with cleverly selected stem and handlebar variants. The hands are positioned significantly higher here than on the gravel version, in contrast to the Rose Backroad For example, the handlebars are the narrowest in the test, with the slight bend to the rear, the wrists are straight as an arrow, so you can sit well on the bike for a long time.
The seatpost also helps with its unobtrusive but noticeable flex. Sitting on the bike like this, you don't even realise that you're riding a real sports bike. The frame could even pass for a road bike, in principle it is also a racer with straight handlebars except for the wheels. Very fittingly, Koga has also fitted a pure road bike groupset with Shimano shifters specially designed for such cases. Triple cranks have gone a bit out of fashion, but the wide spread of gear ratios for sporty gear jumps suits the all-rounder here perfectly.
Frame and tyres of the Koga Colmaro Sports
In addition to these sporty and yet very comfortable components, two main points give the Colmaro in this version its very own face: Firstly, the aluminium frame, which was already highly praised in the last issue and does not have to hide behind its carbon competitors in terms of weight and stiffness. Both the weld seams and the transition to the straight carbon fork are super clean, just like the matt paint finish - as long as you don't touch the bike, matt colours are particularly susceptible to grease stains. Point two, the tyres, is bold and also a lot of fun. A semi-slick tyre for the city with only 35 mm, the Conti rolls and accelerates super-fast despite the well-known good puncture protection, although the wheels are more stable than super-light.
With the rather narrow tyres and a maximum system weight of 110 kilos, the bike cannot be considered a world tourer, even though you could easily attach all kinds of pannier racks to the aluminium rear triangle, and there are also enough threads on the frame for racks, bottles and bags. This is a bit of a shame, because the neutral riding position and low rolling resistance, as well as the many gear ratios, make it ideal for long tours. For short trips and the city, this does not detract.
Conclusion on the Koga Colmaro Sports in the MYBIKE test
The Koga Colmaro is almost as stiff and almost as sporty as the competition made of carbon, but the seat is one class more comfortable. Due to the comparatively low payload, the model gives away points on long tours, while the lack of off-road qualities of the tyres is compensated for in the Sport category with the most dynamic values overall on firm ground: Acceleration, cornering, ramps - great! The following applies here in particular: it's better travelling light! - Timo Dillenberger, MYBIKE editor
The most important information about the Koga Colmaro Sports
- Weight: 10.7 kg
- Price: 1699 Euro >> available here
- Frameset: Aluminium, carbon fork
- Maximum system weight: 110 kg
- Frame sizes for men: S/M/L/XL, Mixed: S/M/L/XL
- Seat tube / top tube: 460 / 544 mm
- Stack / Reach / SR quotient*: 547 / 376 mm / 1,45
- Wheelbase: 1020 mm
- Drive: Shimano Tiagra 3 x 10 groupset, crank 3-speed 50/39/30 teeth, Shimano Tiagra cassette 12-28 teeth
- Brakes: Shimano UR300 hydraulic disc brakes, 160 / 160 mm, MT201 brake lever
- Wheels / tyres: Aluminium wheels 28", 32 spokes steel 2.0 - 1.7 - 2.0 mm / Conti GranPrix Urban 35 x 622 mm
- Saddle / handlebars: Selle Royal asphalt / aluminium 10° curvature
*SR ratio: calculates the ratio of height to length of the frame, the higher the value, the more elongated the geometry.
