Old 02-11-20, 01:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Sandstrom
I am hardly a Bianchi expert (or Italian bikes in general) but this example kind of looks like a dog's breakfast? Carbon fork, crummy looking stem, you have to wonder what the story is behind the fork replacement...

https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bi...073071652.html

I love that idiom. Hysterical!

I personally think this bike is a stem (and bar) swap from looking cohesive. Who knows the fork replacement. They could have just wanted to modernize and have it look cool. I've done that with a frameset that had a perfectly good fork (1983 Peugeot PB-14).
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