Originally Posted by
ahsposo
So what's the rolling stock here? I recognize the Bianchi 928 cuz I got one. The flat bar is interesting and the other bike looks like it may be eligible for C&V.
Enquiring minds want to know.
Yes, the Bianchi 928 Carbon is my pride and joy.
The Flat-bar is my wife's. I actually bought it from a touring company called Backroads after we did a trip and she fell in love with it. It's a nice Ti frame (don't know where it's made but pretty smooth welds) with pretty basic 105-type components. Great deal for $800 if they are still selling them.
The final bike (on the left) is kinda interesting. The short story is that it's a beater bike made from parts I lad laying around.
The longer story -- probably more than most people wanted to hear -- is this: Once upon a time I bought a classic steel Bianchi. It was Celeste and it was my first road bike and it was wonderful. Unfortunately a few years ago I crashed it and bent the frame (it pre-dated separate hang tabs) and had to buy a new frame. I bought the 928 frame you see on eBay for $600 and transferred all the parts across. It worked great but you know what happens when you get the carbon bug. I started upgrading things. First it was obvious things like a carbon seatpost and stem. Then it was prideful things like ditching the triple cranket. Then it was performance things like decent wheels. Eventually, of course, it became OCP things like carbon shifters. I have to say I did quite a nice job on the 928; lots of the parts are "bianchi componenti" which match perfectly, and all were bought on eBay or at swap meets for not much money.
So what's up with the third bike? Well, a couple of months ago I replaced something on the Bianchi 928 and realized it was the last part that remained from my original Celeste steel Bianchi. Which meant, of course, that I actually had an entire bike's worth of parts minus the frame. So for fun I ordered a $99 frame from Nashbar and built it up, partly just to see if I could do it. That's the third bike: a $99 aluminum Nashbar frame with the Campy component group from my 1999 Bianchi. I have to say, it's a pretty great ride. I just finished cabling it up and I was going to give it to a friend of mine but I've become a little attached to it, so I'm thinking of keeping it for a foul-weather bike.
Which meant, of course, I needed to figure out a place to store it...