Originally Posted by
nick.m.rose
Wow, thanks for the information Bianchigirll. Is yours an '88 -- or a '98? You've got a pretty badass Bianchi there -- you prefer the unicrown over a carbon fork?
Oh sorry yes '98, thank you, it came with the unicrown and I as yet have no reason to change it
It's interesting you should say that it was sometimes sold with a Time fork, because when I got it (from its second owner) the guy said that he had removed the Time fork that was on it. So, it looks like the Chorus set, along with the now defunct Time fork, would have been its original setup. If that's the case, then I should be able to date the frame by dating the Chorus components, correct?
yes in theroy you could
Any idea if the wheelset would have been part of the kit?
which Mavic rims? I believe SUP was one of the buzz phrases of the era the '97 catalog list the rims as being "Mavic Reflex BCSUP UB double eyelet
I noticed that your bike has a "Reparto Corse" sticker on the non-drive-side horizontal chainstay (right next to the "Bianchi" pantograph), whereas mine does not. Would you attach any significance to that fact? Mine does say "Reparto Corse" on the downtube sticker indicating the grade of titanium, so it's curious that it wouldn't also have the other "Reparto Corse" sticker.
At one time the Reparto Corse decal and frames had a certain panache' to them. the frame were said to be built in the race depaartment right along side the pro bikes, I doubt the same people worked on the frames though. the absence of the chainstay decal or your bike is that is simply came off, perhaps it was starting to peel or something and the previous owner simply removed it. it could also be that they were used one year and not the next. at some point in the in very late '90s early 2000s some marketing idiot got the idea of putting a RC decal of some type on almost every Bianchi, sort of like calling every Mustang a Cobra so to true Bianchi loyalist some of the panache' is lost.
you can see that sticker in the pics?
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