[CR]Someone help this Bianchi

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

From: "garth libre" <rabbitman@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:33:09 -0400
Subject: [CR]Someone help this Bianchi

A 32.5 inch standover sounds an awful lot like a 56 cm frame -- my size, but it looks like a 54cm by the size of headtube. Also if this is a 60's Bianchi, then even the Concour green leather seat is not original, but I have to admit the Concour vintage seats of the early 80's are the sexiest things ever designed for any bike. Not only is the shape sexy, but the shape is a refrain of the Concour jet shape, so it's historically significant. For the Concour seats alone, I find the bikes of the late 70's to mid 80's the most beautiful and functional of all classics to collect. It was a time of the aero shape, braze on cleanliness, sleek unclunky stems, slant parralelograms, tapered allen- head brake bolts,super kinesthetic Look designed pedals (never much improved on), and the racing ideal 6 and 7 speed freewheels. The owner of the now defunct Grove Cyclery told me that after the mid eighties, there have been no better racing bikes built (with the possible exception of downtube indexing). I agree.

One strange point: if the owner has so much disrespect for classic bikes, then why does ask $50 extra for the original fork? Garth Libre