How to become a Super Fredette in one easy step
 

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You need more Ferrari stickers.

Number plates! Only a Fred cruises around with them

What if you use a Ferrari wrench while working on a Raleigh Twenty? :lol:

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-Kurt

Looks like a new(er) bike. Wouldn’t that be Super Frederica?

You weren't the current favorite or the defending winner of either race?
No shame, no shame. ;)

Golly gee, so much going on, and I can't really tell what's before/after.

Pic #1: Max fork w/longer steer tube & stack o' spacers, Salsa upjutting stem, bell on left side, dt shifters, high-flange Sherrif-Star hubs (swoon!)
Pic #2: Different/standard-spec? fork w/shorter steer tube & no stack o' spacers, non-Salsa upjut stem, bell in front, brifters, low-flange hubs

Not that I'm necessarily qualified to award Fredette points, since I really only understand them in relation to 1980 gear, but the most Fredette feature to me on both builds is the upjutting stem, and maybe the bell? Which they both have.

The Salsa stem gets more cool points than the no-name/generic? stem, but neither strike me as any more/less Fredette-ish. Ditto on the bell position. Hard for me to tell from the pix whether one bar position is higher than the other, since the Salsa has less up-angle but longer steer tube, but I'm not seeing a big difference in actual bar height. And brifter-vs-dt doesn't register on the Fredette scale for me.

So though it may be obvious to the Bianchi Goddess, it's not getting through my thick skull.

I'll also pipe up with a general-audience concern/warning about that Salsa stem. Most I've seen/used have _very_ short insertion quills, with very little room for vertical rise if you want to keep the wedge in the unthreaded section of the steer tube. They kind of always have to be slammed if you want to protect the steer tube threads. My worry in the first pic is that unless that steer tube only has a short run of threads up real high, just near the top, it's very likely the stem wedge is tightening in the threaded section, which is a failure vector. Or unless that's a stem I haven't seen that has a longer quill.

It's something to keep in mind with any frame that uses a longer steer tube, even/especially frames with tall head lugs. You gotta know where your threads are, and make sure your stem wedge/cone isn't tightening in the threaded zone. Not having that concern is one advantage of threadless stems.

Geese I just thought this would be a funny way to show off my new number cards I hadn’t intended to get a full on critique of my favorite bikes. Next time I’ll just leave new stuff on the table to take pictures

Are those sherriff stars the Electra hubs?

:D :thumb: And rims too.

I’m drinking beer, I got it! Thanks BG.

Well, you only showed the front ends in the photos, so all I could do was a partial....

Note to all----already sent BG a mea culpa PM in case she's sore.

Bar tape needs rewrapping on the Coke bike.........sorry

The blue anodized touches are frickin' sweet, fredette or not!

I thought it was either the valve stem cap or those Wellgo Celeste pedals we all fall for and regret (or fall with and regret).

She put sapphire blue handlebar tape on a Bianchi! Massive faux pax!

Nonsense.

It matches the Bianchi decal on the down-tube.

I did the same.

One easy step for you to become a Fredette. It would take at least two for me, just sayin'… :)

It also matches the Saphirino Chorus brakes ;)
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...are red helments faster ?

No but it is a great match for my Marine Corps jersey. ;) And my last three helmets were blue so time for change

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...dammit. I was hoping for an unqualified yes. :(

This takes me back to the boy's bathroom many years ago. "My cock's bigger than your Coke!" With pictures no less.

If only you had stopped there, I would have thought you were making an oblique comment about Celeste.

I don't know about the Fredette scale but they both score high on the Bianchenstein scale.