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Carrera Podium is the parent company and the producers of quality Carrera Bikes. The company was
established in the year 1989 by three friends Francesco Boifava, Luciano Bracchi and Davide with a
common passion for bicycles. The company is headquartered at the Calcinato Comune in the Brescia
province in the Lombardy region of Italy, where the artisan skills are known to be bound with the High-
Tech performance capacities.
The high quality of Carrera-Podium products combined with latest technologies and more than
five hundred victories in various prestigious competitions has enhanced the company’s reputation
and inspired them to further upgrade and produce cycling products that meet the expectations of
professionals, athletes and enthusiasts around the globe.
The company is known for exporting more than 50% of the total production of it’s products to more
than fourteen countries across the world, including Japan and Korea in the east with a strong network
of importers and distributors, which has helped to show the world what an Italian product is and has
received positive responses everywhere.
Today, Carrera Podium produces several models of bicycles with more than fifteen categories, including
the hand-made bikes with the inclusion of outstanding innovative features. The company’s frames have
evolved as a life giving experience from the development of steel frames, followed by aluminum and
then the carbon frames developed using different alloys. The company also earned the reputation for
implementing the carbon inserts into the rear end of the aluminum frame, not only in Italy, but all over the
world in 1997 and produced the first bike using this costly material in 2001.
The Carrera-Podium has grown with the collaboration of research and development team to mechanics
and technicians, which has practiced to play in the company’s labs with a group of around twenty people
know for experimenting and developing new technologies and products.