Ciocc Road Bike with full Shimano 600 on velospace, the place for bikes

Got one of these free, all original. It just needs a new chain and paint.

Ciocc is a world renowned Italian bicycle manufacturer with a lot of victories under its belt, this one is a handmade steel frame and it weighs nothing. I think the entire bike altogether weighs in about as much as the banana seat on my Stingray. It will be my next project.

It just might be faster than my Stingray. Should be fun to see what it will do down the side of the local Causeway bridge.

Ooh shiney! ^^ Nice bike bro

That one is actually not the EXACT bike, but it's the same frame and wheels and everything.

Where will you ever find a set of apehangers in a 26.0mm roadbike stem size?

Real nice bike ya got thare! I am lucky to have a Independent Fabrication road bike....to bad I don't live anywhare near ya....we could ride.......

Dang good deal for free! Post some picts when you get it set up.

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Does this mean you are out of the Pro-Boners Club !?!?!?!

Finished work on it today.

New sex:

700c Weinmann 519 Doublewall rear aluminum rim /rear tire
Completely cleaned ORIGINAL Shimano 600 drivetrain (!!!)
New cables, cable housings
Cloud9 seat

The bike had a LOT of surface rust on it, as it is Italian steel after all. I cleaned the majority of it off. The drivetrain was shot to hell, someone left this thing out in the rain and abused it. The big chainring was bent pretty bad in one spot but after 20 min with a vice and some pliers it is now straight. I got about 70% of all the surface rust off it. There was lots of dirt in it and all around it, but nothing a parts cleaning vat couldn't fix.

I plan to powdercoat it white and put new decals on it. The chrome trim on the lugs will most likely stay if I can help it. If worst comes to worst, I'll just get them re-chromed.

Next weekend I'm gonna have Matt at the shop tape up the handlebars, that's about the only thing I can't do worth a **** on bicycles.

It's light, and I got to ride it tonight, holy ****, it is REALLY fast, almost Stupid Fast, but not quite Ludicrous Speed. Well, not yet.

I only went through the first 4 out of 6 gears in the big ring, which is a 52t, and it is ridiculous how quick it is. It's almost scary, I suppose this is what happens when you spend your whole life riding bricks and get behind the wheel of a featherweight.

There's a 15 yr. old in our club with a single speed carbon fiber Trek 2300 that's geared to the moon, he thinks he can beat me, oh boy, he has another thing coming, if he had a job I'd throw down some money on it, he has a snowballs chance in hell from a dig and not much more from a roll.

Since it is Italian steel, she will be named "Lola"

Daytime pics tomorrow. Still not quite sure on the date of manufacture but it is somewhere in the late 80's / early 90's I'm guessing.

Nice job on fixing it up JDogg. I have been wanting a road bike for a while, just never got one. I saw the pict while drinking my first cup of coffee, and for a little while I wondered why you had the pink basket on the front of your bike.

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Quote: Originally Posted by j-dogg Finished work on it today. New sex: 700c Weinmann 519 Doublewall rear aluminum rim /rear tire Completely cleaned ORIGINAL Shimano 600 drivetrain (!!!) New cables, cable housings Cloud9 seat The bike had a LOT of surface rust on it, as it is Italian steel after all. I cleaned the majority of it off. The drivetrain was shot to hell, someone left this thing out in the rain and abused it. The big chainring was bent pretty bad in one spot but after 20 min with a vice and some pliers it is now straight. I got about 70% of all the surface rust off it. There was lots of dirt in it and all around it, but nothing a parts cleaning vat couldn't fix. I plan to powdercoat it white and put new decals on it. The chrome trim on the lugs will most likely stay if I can help it. If worst comes to worst, I'll just get them re-chromed. Next weekend I'm gonna have Matt at the shop tape up the handlebars, that's about the only thing I can't do worth a **** on bicycles. It's light, and I got to ride it tonight, holy ****, it is REALLY fast, almost Stupid Fast, but not quite Ludicrous Speed. Well, not yet. I only went through the first 4 out of 6 gears in the big ring, which is a 52t, and it is ridiculous how quick it is. It's almost scary, I suppose this is what happens when you spend your whole life riding bricks and get behind the wheel of a featherweight. There's a 15 yr. old in our club with a single speed carbon fiber Trek 2300 that's geared to the moon, he thinks he can beat me, oh boy, he has another thing coming, if he had a job I'd throw down some money on it, he has a snowballs chance in hell from a dig and not much more from a roll. Since it is Italian steel, she will be named "Lola" Daytime pics tomorrow. Still not quite sure on the date of manufacture but it is somewhere in the late 80's / early 90's I'm guessing.

Vary nice bike ya got thare! Faster then the Sting-Ray I hope! Shimano 600 is awsome!! I have it on a old Schwinn I have....!

Yeah, its LOTS faster than the Stingray. Leaps and bounds ahead of it, I think the local PD could have legally pulled me over in my own neighborhood about a half hour ago. For whatever reason 5th and 6th gear are unusable at high speed, not sure why but I'll play with it today.

The Stingray looks cooler and is easier at its limits but the Ciocc is faster overall.

I can't wait to top it out on the Melbourne causeway, 1/2 mile downhill 20% grade. It was pretty fast on level land, it should crack the sound barrier going down the side of that bridge. I'm beginning to think, judging from how quickly it accelerates in the big ring in 4th, that 5th and 6th are going to be too short and I will have to put taller gearing on it to match my power.

I would definitely say I successfully saved it from certain destruction.

I used to compete when i was younger...
My last roadbike was a blue Bianchi with Campagnolo drive train , the whole weight of the bike was about 4kg - 8.8lbs... now i see the frame weights are down to about 1000g - 2 something pounds...

Back in 1984-85 my bike was about $3000 - a lot of many back then, a lot of money now too...
I finished 4th place in the Swedish championship, somewhere around those years.... getting old, can't remember the year...

I might do this one up in Campy, I'll have to see how the current drivetrain setup works out.

Quote: Originally Posted by BeetleMan I used to compete when i was younger... My last roadbike was a blue Bianchi with Campagnolo drive train , the whole weight of the bike was about 4kg - 8.8lbs... now i see the frame weights are down to about 1000g - 2 something pounds... Back in 1984-85 my bike was about $3000 - a lot of many back then, a lot of money now too... I finished 4th place in the Swedish championship, somewhere around those years.... getting old, can't remember the year...

Sorry, but no. And no. And no.

As a professional in the bicycle industry, I get to hear all kinds of stories about "When I was a kid I had a bike that weighed less than 12 lbs..." Sorry, but in the 70's and 80's bikes just weren't there yet unless you had a custom bike, had a huge corporate sponsor and a mechanic that was an anal-retentive weight-weenie fiend...and even then you broke a lot of stuff. If your bike weighed under 9 lbs, it didn't have wheels on it, and it certainly wasn't a steel Bianchi. Back then anything under 20 lbs was pretty darn rare.

FYI a bike that is under 15 lbs off the shelf today is in the $5-8K range. Add more ducats for less grams.

J-Dogg, strip all that Jap crap off that classic Italian frame and get some Campy on there. If you powdercoat it, I'm gonna pimpslap you. Get it refinished in a classic paint scheme or leave it be. You'll ruin any value it has otherwise.

Quote: Originally Posted by Wordbiker Sorry, but no. And no. And no. As a professional in the bicycle industry, I get to hear all kinds of stories about "When I was a kid I had a bike that weighed less than 12 lbs..." Sorry, but in the 70's and 80's bikes just weren't there yet unless you had a custom bike, had a huge corporate sponsor and a mechanic that was an anal-retentive weight-weenie fiend...and even then you broke a lot of stuff. If your bike weighed under 9 lbs, it didn't have wheels on it, and it certainly wasn't a steel Bianchi. Back then anything under 20 lbs was pretty darn rare. FYI a bike that is under 15 lbs off the shelf today is in the $5-8K range. Add more ducats for less grams. J-Dogg, strip all that Jap crap off that classic Italian frame and get some Campy on there. If you powdercoat it, I'm gonna pimpslap you. Get it refinished in a classic paint scheme or leave it be. You'll ruin any value it has otherwise.

It might have been the frame weight, i just recall the "4kg" 4000g. And this was a 3k bicycle back in mid 80's, which probably would be somewhere around 7-10k today....
When i stopped my career due to knee injury, i sold this bike, and furnished my room with the money, i got a tv a vcr, a stereo system, a bed and and desk for the cash. And to this day i feel guilty, cause my mom bought me this bike, and i know she had to sacrifice a lot to do so, and not long after i got it, i sold it, and bought the other stuff for the money.
But still to this day I suffer from my injury, so there wasn't much I could have done different anyways.

I was going to PC it and put original stickers back on it, not any custom crap.

Finished my 7 speed conversion today.

Stock 6-speed Sachs french crap out, new Shimano 105, and Shimano Hyperglide 21-12 7-speed and freewheel-to-cassette conversion in.





Yeah it's disgusting-quick. Already got two kills on it tonight. Single-speed Trek 2300 carbon fiber got destroyed twice from a roll. mo-mo-mo-MONSTERKILL!!!! Unstoppable!!!

4130 Italian steel > carbon fiber