FS: BIANCHI Extra 50's City Bike
I know just enough to be dangerous, and also to recognize that this is a special bike. The headbadge, pin stripping, integrated headset and nicely crafted bullet seat stays pointed me to this fact. The size seems to be a medium, the seat tube is 55cm center to center and the top tube is 57cm. But maybe city bikes aren't measured the same way as road bikes, considering the stubby stem and handlebars that wrap around to the rider. There is plenty of rust... er charming patina, but the bike works fine and tracks straight, until the rear clincher tire blew off the rim on my ride home from the gas station where I found this beauty quietly resting in the back.
A few photos can be seen here:
http://www.foxgalleria.com/
I'd like to offer this bike to cr listers first. I'm asking 350 Euros (or an interesting trade in size 55cm, road bikes from the 90's are more my thing). HOWEVER, I don't want to ship it. To get the bike into a correctly sized box, I'd have to dismantle a lot of it and the rusty bolts concern me, another concern is that it weighs almost a ton. So you'll have to pass by northern Italy (3 hours west of Milan or 3 hours south of Munich) to pick up this queen of a bike or arrange for some kind of transfer.
Corey Sar Fox
Bolzano, Italy