Columbus (company)

Columbus Tubi

Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Metallic tubing and shaped parts manufacturing
Founded	1919 (1919) in Italy
Founder	Angelo Luigi Colombo
Headquarters	Settala , Italy
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Antonio Colombo
Website	columbustubi.com

Columbus Tubi 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.

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.

See also

• Reynolds Technology
• Tange International Co.
• List of bicycle parts
• List of Italian companies

External links

• Columbus
• List of tubings available from around 1989