Bruno Tardivo of Cuneo, just over the border in Italy from Monte Carlo. 
Updated 6.10.2008             Click on pictures to see a larger view

  "The company is based in Cuneo, in the southern Italian Alps, just across the border 
from Monaco/Monte Carlo. The company is owned and run by Bruno Tardivo...hence 
I think the abbreviation in the name of the company means Cicli Bruno Tardivo."

  "I recall the company exhibiting at the Paris Show in or about 1980, at a time 
when Tardivo was in his late 30s/early 40s, although I did come across some 
information that indicate that his father might have founded the firm slightly 
earlier."

  "At that time Tardivo was importing investment-cast lugs from Brazil and using 
them in his frames extensively, at a time when such components had not come into 
popular use from Taiwanese manufacturers."

  "Tardivo was very much an aggressive showman... and his frames always echoed his 
personality, and he always managed to design and build frames that looked even 
more Italian and more attractive than many other better-known Italian products. 
Hence his early frames had the fluted seat-tube, and chain-stays and seat stays 
that were pressed into aerodynamic diamond-shaped profiles."

  "In the later 1980s and early 90s he introduced innovative sections for fork blades 
for his Krypton model. He was also the first builder that I came across who offered 
black chrome plating as a standard alternative to bright chrome on all models......"
   
  "Although only a medium-sized company, CBT has managed to weather the storm, and 
Tardivo has varied his offerings to keep up with market trends, hence there are 
scandium-alloy CBTs out there and, more currently, monocoque carbons just like 
everybody else is selling."
   
  "His frames sell extremely well in France, which I suppose is to be expected 
when the company is situated so close to the Franco-Italian border."
                                                                                        Norris Lockley