I see this bike for sale, made in Italy Marini road bike with Shimano 600 groupset. Can’t find much info on it. Does anyone here know about this maker?

Marini Road Cycle


From a quick google search....

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Google returns Marin and Marioni bicycle info when I search on Marini.

From the site linked above:



Do you have any information about this frame ? The saga I have heard is that the same Italian frame builders who created the Ciocc also built this frameset, and that it shares features and design elements found in the Ciocc's made in the 1980's.

Found a website from Mark Bulgier where he's collected bike catalogs. And the Ciocc catalog has interesting text on the same place on the top tube as my Marini does. You can see similar markings in this picture from Mark's site

The frame was sold in Thousand Oaks, CA, by ________ at _______ cycles. The components are Campy except for the Shimano/Wolber wheelset.

It does ride very nicely

If you know anything about these frames, would you drop me an email ??

Also here: What in the name of... Rare italian steed?

The following is translated from a German Facebook post which I can't link here for some reason:

1985 Marini, the European racing bike frame and cross-border rider. Marini was manufactured for a short time at Ciöcc in Italy from 1985. The name is a fantasy. There is no frame building legend, no racing driver behind it, but a trademark, a sales concept. In 1985, the German Motobecane importer wanted to expand its product range with an Italian line in Germany. He ordered the frames from Ciöcc in Italy. This made it possible to offer racing machines with Shimano equipment without endangering the core business with French parts. The Marini combines Germany, France, Italy and Japan in its concept and shows pure zeitgeist. ("Marini" photo from the web). If anyone owns a Marini, I would be happy to see photos.

I have a Marini frame, which I bought because it has Ciocc's cutout on the underside of the bottom bracket case. I didn't know the history behind the name, thanks for the info. I didn't have time to build it or make some photos, so I attach here the photos made by its ex-owner.

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Drop everything you are doing and go and buy it.

Great info, thank you!

$400 is a deal - assuming everything works & no dents.

to translate based on what's shown and said: product of the Bonati-Conti factory that bought rights to the Ciocc name from Pelizzoli and also built Conti, John and probably some Concorde frames.
This green/yellow example does not appear to have a (Columbus or otherwise) tubing decal so hard to say what the German imported comissioned and decked out with Shimano 600, but this factory did build with everything from SLX/TSX to Aelle, might even used some Thron or Gara (Columbus family) but in later years there were some that used Deda tubing as well.

If this was a frame/built bike imported by TSD (but apparently not) with no decal they were very often Aelle.

I'm really digging that paint job, and the CIOCC connection is interesting. If that were local, I'd be all over it.

If only it were a smaller frame size…..