About Milani

The origins of the Milani brand go back a long way, to 1927, the year in which the brothers Milani of Gallarate, all racing cyclists (independent and professional), the eldest Giuseppe good co-equipier in the team Bianchi with Mara, Piemontesi, Crippa, Morelli ecc.) Natale, also a good independent with Viscontea team co-equipier of Cino Cinelli, Ricci, Casola, Canavesi) good legs and good craftman's hands, coupled with an endless passion for racing cycles and for cycling in general, started building made to measure frames, perfectly constructed down to the last detail, with superb finishings: veritable jewels perfect for racing on.

In the early 1920s, just after the First World War, our region, northern Lombardy was a forge of ideas, industrial workshop and both industrial and textile manufactories. Very near where Milani opens his first workshop in Gallarate 1927, ( 35 km north west of Milan) there were based industries such as Caproni Aviation, Macchi Aviation, Frera motorcycles, Ganna cycles, M.V. Agusta, Aviation and later the legendary motorcycles, Maino textiles, Cantoni textile, Tosi industries etc, etc. In this exciting atmosphere Milani conceived his frames and bikes owning at that time a second brand less racing and more tourist and commuters called "La Bersagliera" It's veritable that Natale Milani, due to his experience during the II World War serving the Italian Royal Aviation as flying engineer, brought his knowledge into building the first cycles frames in aluminium, in the late 1940s.

Today, Milani still produces frames designed and created entirely in Italy, by hand, with the same fine craftmanship which characterized the firm's origins, but also paying great attention to the ongoing evolution of materials, from stell to aluminium alloy and carbon fibre. All our frames are tesetd and certificated from the University of Udine, Institute of Mechanical Engineering "A.Malignani", not only to give a certificate of quality for our prospective customers, but also for our mission as a Company, always looking at excellence in the name of a Made in Italy product.

It is also clear that the today commercial vision is totally different than in the 1930s: at that time and till the 1980s all the production of cycles frames were concentrated between Lombardy and Veneto. Specially in Lombardy there were many workshops of framebuilders normally produced frames for third parties, being unknown to the general public. Also Milani produced top end frames in the 1970s and 1980s for companies such: Cinelli, Guerciotti, Taurus, Fassi, Fiat France, Casola, Speed Cross, Sempion, Guarini, Pavarin, Romeo, Mara, RollMar, VeloForma, ecc ecc. I'm very proud to tell that my father Natale, is one of the most important representative of the "Scuola telaistica Italiana", Italian school of framebuilders.