Originally Posted by verktyg

Piaggio is an Italian manufacture of mopeds, Vespa scooters plus Parilla and Moto Guzzi motorcycles among other products.

They took over the Bianchi bicycle brand in 1980. For a number of years after that Bianchi bikes had Piaggio stickers on them. They eventually spun off Bianchi about 1984 but I'm not familiar with that part of the story.

My 1981 Bianchi Campione del Mondo



The bike that you have is probably not a "Piaggio" model, just has the Piaggop sticker on the head tube?

My guess is that it's and early 80's bike with the last generation of Huret Alvit derailleurs.

This style was called a "town bike" for commuting, shopping and casual riding. It was a less expensive European model as were most town bikes.

A quick Google search on Bianchi Piaggio came up with this:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#n...ianchi+piaggio

verktyg

Chas.