Originally Posted by
wildchild62565
The person I received it from pretty much built it from the ground up with sram crank, 105 derailleurs, bontrager wheels, deda stem and the left shifter is a durace and the right is a 105 he told me that it was equipped with campy when he received it and changed it over. That was about a year ago and I tried contacting him to get the specs on it with no prevail. Is there any specific tube diameters, butting techniques, or anything I could take a better piture of to help authinticate the bike?
Originally Posted by
wildchild62565
There isn't any markings on the bike, but I can kinda see on the bottom of the frame where the Celeste(I think?) is showing through where the the paint was sprayed thin. I can tell the frame material is very different than my old 78' traveler, but I just want to make sure its a bianchi. The only date is the march 2008 printed on the crank. I will check the DT asap
-Ok I forgot about the seat is endorses the Bianchi insignia and so does the composite seatpost
HI sorry I have not been watching this. unfortunatly unless you can get Bianchi to itentify it by the serial number there is no real way to determine the year. unlike the earlier lugged frames there were no 'embellishments' on later frames. (a "B" on the HT/DT lug, engraving on the seatstay caps, style of dropout)
since the bike has been rebuilt, on cheap from the sounds of it, the date code of the cranks is questionable. if the seller could not be bothered to find matching shifters I doubt he would care if the components matched the year of the frame. seats are seats, I had a Colnago seat on one of my Bianchis for few weeks and I have put lots of 'takeoff' bianchi seats on other bikes.
your bike likely is a mid 2000s Bianchi of some model but the exact year and model may never be known.