Guerciotti Bicycles

A bit of history about Paolo Guerciotti and his bicycles

For forty years, the Guerciotti (pronounced gware-choat-ee) family's passion for bikes has made the name world famous for quality, speed and beauty. As I write this, I just got off the phone talking to Paolo. The previous day he had ridden 165 kilomoters in the Granfondo Pantani. Even in his late 50's, Paolo is fit, lean and strong. He is more than just a name on a bike. He has ridden, raced and made bikes all of his adult life.

It started in 1964, when Italo Guerciotti, a well known and accomplished cyclocross rider, decided to open a little bicycle shop in Milan with his brother Paolo. It was Italo's passion that got young Paolo involved in racing. Paolo started to ride as a junior in 1961. His success was immediate. From the start, he began to win races. From 1961 to 1966 he raced on the road. In 1967 he made a change. He decided to race cyclocross exclusively. He was chosen by the Italian Federation to represent Italy at the world championships in 1979 in Saccolongo. In 1980 he retired from professional racing.

It was at this time that it became appearant that the shop was too small for the growing business. Over the next several decades the business moved several times to ever larger locations in central Milan.

In 1976 Guerciotti bicycles entered the professional cycling world, equipping the Fiorella-Mocassini team. The victories continued as Guerciotti bikes were ridden by a succession of successful pro teams: Fiorella-Citroen, Magniflex-Fam Cucine (winning five stages in the 1979 Giro d'Italia), Santini-Selle Italia, Alfa Lum and Dromedario-Sidermec.

There were numerous notable racers on Guerciotti bikes in this era, including G.B. Baronchelli and Giovanni Battaglin. In 1976, Guerciotti started supplying the GBC cyclocross team, directed by Dino Zandegù. In 1979 Guerciotti Bikes was also equipping many amateur teams including the Pedale Saronnese. The Saronese Pedalers had an interesting young rider named Claudio Chiappucci.

The involvement with racing, both road and cyclocross continues to this day. In 2004, the LPR team with Dimiti Konyshev rides the Guerciotti "Eureka" bike.

To get an understanding of how deeply Guerciotti has been involved with cyclocross and how why his bikes have gained such a powerful world-wide reputation for excellence, it would be useful to look at the most notable victories gained on Guerciotti cross bikes:

Most Important Guerciotti Victories From 1977 to 2001

During this period, Team Guerciotti earned over 850 victories.

2 Professionial World Championships: LIBOTON (BE) '83/84

7 Amateur World Championships:

DI TANO (IT) '79/86

KLUGE (DK) '87

SIMUNEK (CZE) '84

CAMRDA (CZE) '88

GLAJZA (CZE) '89

DJERNIS (D) '93

1 Open World Championship: PONTONI (IT) '97

1 World Cup: PONTONI (IT) '95

6 Italian Amateur National Championships: DI TANO '80/82/83/84/86

4 Italian Elite National Championships: PONTONI '95/96/97/99

1 Italian Under 23 National Championship: DALL'OSTE '98

2 Italian Junior National Championships: RIVERA '91/92

5 Belgium Professional National Championships: LIBOTON '83/84/85/86/87

2 German Amateur National Championships: KLUGE '87/88

2 German Professional National Championships: KLUGE '89/90

6 Danish Amateur National Championships: DJERNIS '88/89/90/91/92/93

Guerciotti framesets and pricing

I will have more of the Guerciotti line coming. Here is what I have on order for immediate delivery. They should be here in mid July.

These are framesets with integrated forks and headset, and the suggested retail pricing below is for those parts. Paint schemes on the bikes pictured are not necessarily representative of the frames we are importing, but are the photos we have available at this time. They should be used for technical reference only. If you see a paint job you particularly like, we would be happy to special order it.

Cyclocross

EM2: Used by the Guerciotti Team Selle Italia-GRC. Made of Dedacciai EM2. This is essentially the same tubeset as the superlight Dedacciai U2 ("The Other Metal") with a SC61.10A rear triangle. It comes with a Sintema carbon integrated monocoque "Mud" fork. Suggested retail: $1,899.00

Force: Made with a blend of Dedacciai "Force" and "Energy" tubesets with a carbon Sintema "Mud" fork. Suggested retail: $1,299.00

Road

Eureka: Ridden by the Dimitri Konyshev's LPR Pro Team. Built with Dedacciai U2 tubing and a carbon Black Tail Race monostay. The fork is an Integrated Black Magic 2. Suggested retail: $2,999.00

G45: Columbus Airplane with a carbon "Carve" monstay. The fork is an integrated Columbus carbon Carve. Suggested retail: $2,599.00