The Cipollini Bond Frameset has gotten the Disc Brake treatment. It’s an excellent choice for discs, as the bike is designed to provide the kind of rough-road compliance that disc brake lovers are looking for.

It’s still a Cipollini. Cipo’ likes bikes that are aero and stiff. The Bond meets those criteria. It also reflects the needs of riders looking for some comfort.

In broad strokes, this is identical to the rim brake version of the Bond. This bike is both monocoque and bonded, the latter is the reason for the name. The main triangle is monocoque, as in it came out of a mold. The stays are assembled separately and bonded to the frame—they call it Atomlink, and it's a patented process. The thin wishbone seat stays are one piece and each chainstay is another piece. If you look very carefully, you can see where the stays join above the carbon-fiber and also in the ridges encircling the BB386evo bottom bracket.

The bike’s more conventional silhouette, addresses another important issue. Compliance. With a smaller, carefully-shaped downtube, slimmed seat and top tubes, and pencil-thin seat stays, the bike handles rough roads better than any other Cipollini. Also helping aid in the comfort is the telescoping seat post. The post is proprietary to Cipo', is 350mm long and executed in carbon-fiber for light weight. Here, you don't have to sweat sawing a mast. 25mm setback is standard, but if you need a zero setback post, one can be purchased as an accessory.

The Bond's tubes were built with a mix of Toray's T700 and Teijin's UTS carbon-fiber plies, the same as with the Logos. The shapes have been executed differently to provide a different ride, here, one where there's a little more comfort built in while still having a fairly straightforward race geometry.

A number of features of the Bond are found throughout the Cipo' line. Cable routing is internal, and can be set up for either electronic or mechanical shifting. If you go the electronic route, there are fittings at the bottom of the downtube, though, if you prefer, an internal battery can be set up inside the seat tube. The fork has a tapered steerer tube for handling precision, using extra-wide bearings, 1 1/4" to 1 1/2" for greater stiffness—with the standard 1 1/8 steerer to make finding stems easy. The front derailleur mounts to a derailleur hanger with enough vertical adjustment to worth with both compact and standard chain rings. The BB386evo standard was chosen for the bottom bracket both in terms of how it allows Cipollini to build a stiff bike and how it allows the consumer to specify any modern crank and bottom bracket they want.

As mentioned above, this is a disc brake bike. It comes with 100x12mm and 142x12mm thru axles. The disc calipers attach to the bike via flat mounts. While the bike can work with mechanical or electronic shifting, specify beforehand, so the proper stops and plates come with. If you go electronic, you mount the battery inside the seatpost. A headset comes with the frame. 25mm tires are the widest tires that will fit.

The Cipollini Bond Disc Frameset is a cutting-edge road bike with cutting edge stoppers.