How old is my Big Blue Bianchi?
06-22-20, 02:33 PM
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How old is my Big Blue Bianchi?
I was going to look through the Bianchi serial number thread, but that’s not all that smart, using a phone. 🤔😉
I saw this on craigslist yesterday, and knew I’d found “my” Bianchi, even though it’s not Celeste, lol. 😁
I’m most curious about it’s age, especially with those “over the BB” cable guides. And I wonder if the cantilever braze-ons were added by a previous owner. 🤔 Especially when there’s only one set of bottle cage mounts, and no rack mounts on the seat stays, or low-rider mounts, although there are dual eyelets front and rear. 🤔
I don’t recall seeing a chromed fork with canti bosses before either. And the paint there looks original (?).
It’s obviously Ishiwata Magny (mangy?) tubes, forks & stays, and I’m pretty sure it says Made in Japan, but I don’t know when it was built, or a model name. The Sugino AT cranks with matching BB say “Japan B-9 170”, and there’s a Suntour ARX FD, but pretty much everything else is non-original.
The guy I bought it from says the license sticker “used” to say 1974, “if” he remembered right. 🙄🤔
OK, some pics, including the serial number. 😎
I saw this on craigslist yesterday, and knew I’d found “my” Bianchi, even though it’s not Celeste, lol. 😁
I’m most curious about it’s age, especially with those “over the BB” cable guides. And I wonder if the cantilever braze-ons were added by a previous owner. 🤔 Especially when there’s only one set of bottle cage mounts, and no rack mounts on the seat stays, or low-rider mounts, although there are dual eyelets front and rear. 🤔
I don’t recall seeing a chromed fork with canti bosses before either. And the paint there looks original (?).
It’s obviously Ishiwata Magny (mangy?) tubes, forks & stays, and I’m pretty sure it says Made in Japan, but I don’t know when it was built, or a model name. The Sugino AT cranks with matching BB say “Japan B-9 170”, and there’s a Suntour ARX FD, but pretty much everything else is non-original.
The guy I bought it from says the license sticker “used” to say 1974, “if” he remembered right. 🙄🤔
OK, some pics, including the serial number. 😎
06-22-20, 02:56 PM
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The subject bicycle is a heavily modified, 1982 Bianchi Sport SS, manufactured in Japan.
06-22-20, 03:02 PM
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
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Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
06-22-20, 03:17 PM
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Either way, thanks much, T-Mar. 👍
Now I need to try to find pics of an ‘82 SS, to see how this one compares. 🤔😁
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Is that SS like in Super Sport? Sounds pretty cool, at least. 😎😁😎 By heavily modified, I take it you mean various braze-ons? I was only guessing, about the canti posts being added, but that probably hit the mark, in light of your reply. Or maybe it was a custom order, if they did that?
Either way, thanks much, T-Mar. 👍
Now I need to try to find pics of an ‘82 SS, to see how this one compares. 🤔😁
Either way, thanks much, T-Mar. 👍
Now I need to try to find pics of an ‘82 SS, to see how this one compares. 🤔😁
That would make it a 1982 Bianchi Randonneur. They both used the same tubeset and were available in similar colour.
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Looks like I’ll have to learn more about randonneuring now, or at least pretend I know all about it, lol. 😁😉
Thanks again, you made my day. 👍😎👍
