Operator, what's chicksbikes? But yeah, steel is tempting right now because it will give you warning before failing, and I never cared if my bike had a carbon fork in the first place. Luckily, the dark blue fork will be close to the dark blue of the Bianchi decals

Moxfyre, I did consider it since the same Nashbar carbon fork in threadless is like $60. Add a stem and headset and it still costs less than the threaded fork alone, but those are cheap components to replace a Bianchi branded stem and high quality headset. Plus it does look nice as you say

I ran into an old teammate who is working at my favorite LBS for the last 15 years, so he will probably tell me where to get it threaded.