Originally Posted by Gary Fountain

I've got an '82 Bianchi Campione del Mondo - a very nice bike in pretty good condition but not really in the same league as your new beauty. It's a factory built frame, of course, but not Reparto Corse. The shellac will be great. I saw some other photos on Flickr and you look perfectly at home on the Specialissima.

I must admit that I did get on our local ebay this evening to see if there were any high end Bianchi's - hahaha - look what you've made me do.

The '82 Campione del Mondo - I may as well show it:



It's lovely and it did take me a while to build but.......I just can't seem to fall in love with it. I sold it once and bought it back a couple of years later but.......its a nice bike.