1962 bianchi gran sport
 

anyone looking for a nice solid 60s Bianchi (not mine) would be a nice project bike ........... pretty low buy it now


1960's BIANCHI "Gran Sport" Road Bike Cinelli Campagnolo


http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=366029


http://www.ebay.com/itm/161234721622...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

1962 bianchi gran sport
 

Its old. Needs lots of upgrades. Probably weighs 40 pounds.

Fork looks bent.

other than that, it's pretty cool!

Great seller, cool bike.

Gee, maybe I should go over and see it. :)

That head tube & headset combo kicks ass. And don't try to say it doesn't. ;)

What is wrong with those massive drop bars?

It's a great bike. Wonder why it was relisted, the Buy it Now, now gone?

when you sell an item with a starting bid OR a buy it now ....once there is a bid the buy it now is automatically removed

Yeah, Thought I saw it listed as $329 or best offer. If i had the dough i would have just paid the BIN.

Check out the other items this seller has. Great stuff.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/velostuf/m.h...p2047675.l2562

I would have put this on the "Are you looking for one of these?" thread. It's on page one nearly every day, and not every random eBay/CL bike needs it's own thread.

My $.02

I think Bianchi slapped those on for the US market. Or, the are not original.

The Italian version of the Gran Sport has condorino bars, chain guard and full fenders.

Either way, ask the seller, he is a friend of mine and a good guy.

What upgrades? It is vintage keep it that way or buy something newer

An integrated or hidden headset, that's Bianchi always on the forefront

I would suspect they postdate the bike by several years, the Cinelli stem looks like an '80s model.

if you look at one of the pictures the stem clearly has one of the older Cinelli Milano oval logo logos on top........so I put it in the right era

LOL - sounds like me

With the allen head bolt?

the machine's hubs look as though they may be Cidneo. they are stamped "Bianchi."

i know that the next down model, Strada, at this time came with Huret gears; what was the gear ensemble on this model?

I don't know, but the model name suggests something, doesn't it? I mean the Raleigh Gran Sport of the same era had Gran Sport gears, and I don't think it was a coincidence.

wrt stem & bar set -

original would have been ambrosio i-beam.

pedals -

original would have been sheffield. possibly model 636.

the forum had a thread on another one of these bicycles in 2009 -

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...chi-Gran-Sport

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelev...7615306749390/

unfortuntely, this example has had some of its components changed out as well.

in looking at photos can see that hubs are not Cidneo but Simplex of Italy.

That is how I recall seeing only one long ago, with fenders and no drop bars.

That's my biggest complaint with the CR list. Interesting discussions & great knowledge, to be sure, but lately it seems like it's getting more and more cluttered with links to ebay/CL ads (often posted by the seller).

Nonetheless, cool bike at a very attractive price.

in this case whenever I come across a nice looking bike that I am not bidding on (too red) I try to let the bike forum crowd give it a look