RIDING bikes vs. RACING bikes
 
CIOCC Italian bikes are classified into two categories. Racing bikes and Riding bikes. There is a lot of overlap between these two styles. A good racing bike needs to be a good riding bike. After all, racers need speed, stability, good climbing and good descending qualities in their bicycles they also need comfort. The big difference between RACING bikes that a serious competitive rider needs, and the RIDING bike that an enthusiast is more about equipment, materials, specific needs for specific events, and price. A testament to the Ciocc bike lines is that all the models except maybe the extreme ones (entry level vs. top model) can cross over into both the riding and racing categories.

People who want to experience their riding environment while cycling are going to love a bike built in the Italian style. If you want to go out and FEEL the road below you, FEEL the bike respond to your input, and FEEL and experience the bicycle's many riding personalities you are very well suited to owning one of these babies. There will be times where you realize that your bike is in total control of you and your ride you are no longer steering it the bike is taking you along for a thrilling ride! You do not get this when you buy a cookie cutter commercial bike made on a production line. AND you certainly do not need to be a racer to enjoy these benefits and take full advantage of these fantastic bikes.

 
Italian "GEOMETRY"
 
Bikes using Italian GEOMETRY are heavily fit oriented. The general ride quality, personality and performance of the bike depend on the rider using the correct size frame and that the full bike is set up (fit) properly for them. This general rule applies to all bicycles, but has been lost or buried in recent years with the advent of production lines and robotic mass builders. 

Ciocc, (say like CHEE-OH-CH) for the passionate cyclist, is a brand that recalls the early days of the great Italian handcraft tradition of road frames.  It was 60 years ago that CIOCC, working from a small artisan shop, produced high quality frames for some very demanding pro riders.  Sixty years later, CIOCC is still visible in the professional ranks as a confirmed leader in the world of road bike frames.  Stefano Bonati, Cesare Biondi and Biffi Giuseppe - owners of Ciocc - realise the importance of the company's origins, traditions and attention to detail.  Ciocc is a market leader of dream-worthy frames that become instant classics and timeless in themselves as well as evolved carbon frames.

For cycling purists of a certain age in Australia, the name Ciocc will forever conjure up images of Eastern Bloc 'amateurs' dominating the toughest stages of the legendary Milk Race during the 70's and 80's , Russian, Czech and Polish hard men with unpronounceable names on a bike with an equally difficult monocle, who were simply a world apart from most of our domestic teams.

The bikes behind much of this success were Italian Ciocc's (pronounced “church”). They began to infiltrate British pelotons as a direct result, and were for many the equal of other better known classic Italian frames available at the time such as Colnago or De Rosa.

We are fed up with the sad mundane frames you get these days, which are usually just the same Far Eastern produced products re-badged. What's so exciting about Ciocc? Is that they are still locally produced, using skills and techniques that allow for each bike to be totally unique to its owner.
 
Part of buying a Ciocc is the trust and knowledge that the person building your frame is a MASTER ARTISAN consumed with making every bike he lays his hands on a piece of scientific, ridable art. Perfection is not the same as mass duplication!