Bianchi is the world's oldest bicycle manufacturing company still in production Bianchi has been founded in 1885 by Eduardo Bianchi in Milan, Italy. Bianchi the pioneer of bicycle development since the beginning.


The 1953 World Campione del mondo was held in Lugano, Switzerland, near the Italian border. After 7h30min of racing, Fausto Coppi won with a solo attack ahead of the Belgians Derijcke and Ockers. After that prestigious victory, Bianchi renamed its previous flagship model Paris-Roubaix to CDM (Campione del mondo). The CDM was Bianchi's flagship racing bike in the mid-1950s, later in ...