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Founder
  
Angelo Luigi Colombo

Website
  
columbustubi.com

Founded
  
1919

Area served
  
Worldwide

Headquarters
  
Settala


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Columbus is a manufacturer of steel tubing used in bicycle frames, located in Settala, in the Province of Milan. The company was founded in 1919 by A.L. Colombo and was taken over by Colombo's youngest son, Antonio, in 1977. It is now a division of Gruppo SPA, which also owns the bicycle manufacturer Cinelli.

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Columbus tubing was the main competitor to TI Reynolds 531 in the bicycle tube set market with many of the big name Italian manufacturers of bicycles and framesets utilising their products. Famous name builders such as Bianchi, Centurion Bicycles (after 1981), De Rosa, Ciocc, Pinarello and Colnago all specified the Columbus tubesets as part of their range.

Companies with Frames made of COLUMBUS tubing

  • Albuch Kotter (mainly Aelle)
  • All City
  • Atala
  • Basso
  • Benotto
  • Bianchi (mainly Aelle, Chromor)
  • Centurion Bicycles (after 1981)
  • Cilo Swiss (mainly Aelle)
  • Ciocc
  • Cinelli
  • Colnago
  • Cramerotti
  • Cyfac
  • Dancelli
  • De Rosa
  • Merckx
  • Enik
  • Festka
  • Fort
  • Gios
  • Guerciotti
  • Harry Hall
  • Losa (Giovanni "Vanni" Losa, made frames under the Losa brand, but also for others, such as Cinelli's Super-Corsa model, and the high-end forTurconi)
  • Marinoni
  • Martinello
  • Mondonico
  • Neri
  • Olmo
  • Cicli Moser
  • Peugeot
  • Pinarello
  • Puch
  • Rossin
  • Romani (mainly Aelle)
  • Razesa
  • Rino (Cambio-Rino)
  • Sannino
  • Santini (Matrix)
  • Scapin
  • Schauff
  • Schwinn (Tenax)
  • Tommasini
  • Torpado
  • Turconi
  • Viner
  • Zullo
  • Vicini, see Mario Vicini
  • Vanilla & Speedwagen

    • References

    Columbus Tubing Wikipedia
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