Originally Posted by
JeremyLC
How close is this? (NOT MINE)
Doesn't have chrome stays though
My view of this frameset:
- Nice pale color, seems more true to 'classic' Bianchi Celeste than the Via Condotti, which looks hypersaturated
- I
love the chrome lugs, nice homage to the Bianchis of the '60s and earlier
- They call it a Classica but couldn't be bothered to give it a threaded steerer? That means you need to run a modern threadless headset (unless, of course, you get into monkeying with it), which bothers me a lot for a frameset this costly
- I believe it's just plain jane chromoly toobz.
My bottom line at least- seems very expensive for what it is, and doesn't even do what it's supposed to do perfectly. For the most part, they do look very nice and I wouldn't mind building one up if I could get my hands on one inexpensively, but they're pretty hard to find (talking about the ones with the chrome lugs, not the later ones with the cream lugs and dropouts).