Colnago duped by hoax

"Da Vinci was a genius…he came up with the basic concept of the bicycle five hundred years ago," Ernesto Colnago told Cyclingnews.com at the EICMA Milano show. [Note: Cyclingnews removed this quote after this BikeBiz.com story was pointed out to them].

http://www.cyclingnews.com/…/part1

Da Vinci sketched many things in his time, but the bicycle was not one of them.

The bicycle-like sketch once attributed to Da Vinci was "discovered" in 1974 during the restoration of Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus.

Scholars have known the sketch to be a forgery since the mid-1990s.

There’s an interesting history of the hoax here:

http://www.cyclepublishing.com/…/leonardo%20da%20vinci%20bicycle.html