Hey folks!

So I've had a bike frame built for me, and it's at the painter's right now. I'm trying to come close to a classic Bianchi look - specifically, something like this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/z8gAA...GP/s-l1600.jpg

I sent that and some other images to the painter, said I wanted a classic "Celeste" color. He is finished with everything except the graphics, and sent me some images:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cB...rL8XRtS4ruJHga

I told him that didn't look very "Celeste" to me; he said it matched other "Celeste" bikes he'd done, and a painter friend of his said it looked like "Celeste" as well. I showed it to some Bianchi-loving cyclist friends, who all said it looked like "pale blue" or "baby blue".

At first I was going to take his word for it, but then I decided that I really wanted this to look like a classic Bianchi Celeste. I sent him to Bianchi's current image of their Eroica frameset as a guide:

https://www.bianchiusa.com/archives/...oica-frameset/

... and he'll strip and repaint it.

What do you think? Does what he was calling "Celeste" match any Bianchi "Celeste" bike you've ever seen?

- Tim