The one change I would make here is that you issue a not kindly post a picture of your bike....

Disclaimer: the following is only my opinion.

Warm but not quite hot. It's only my opinion, but I think it would look killer with a brown leather saddle, brown grips, tan sidewall tires, and a brass bell. The current build is sensible, and I wouldn't be afraid to ride it.

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Warm.

Not... I like the frame, but the rest of the setup is killing it for me. My suggestions: stem has to go, white tape, white saddle, white cages and lose those tires. Saw your follow up post about the tires, and that's reasonable. Don't want to waste money. But aesthetically, the aforementioned suggestions would probably give this a hot in my bike. Also, next time, move the bike 6 feet to the right and take the pic in front of the garage door.

And in case I have offended, anyone, I leave you with this:

I'm a little offended, but mostly scared, by the purple dinosaur.

How long have you had this one? I don't think that I've ever seen it - very nice, even with the Reynold's spermies. ;)

...the bell, which easily weighs half a pound in and of itself, is one of those double domed ones,
and they are tuned differently to chime in harmonious unison. I suspect I would score higher were
I to link to a Youtube soundbite of it in action.

You win. I retract my bell statement.

Hot

That ol thing? :) Thanks WhyFi. It's 5 years old, or so. Many many Rando miles, and races, under it's belt. I think it's still a great crit bike, though I used it for the crappy races that are part dirt we have here, as well.

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My Bianchi as it sits at the moment. Just had a clean so figured I'd post one now. There's a few things I'd like to change but don't have the money to spare atm so alterations are being kept to new brakes and cables for safety more than anything else at the moment.

Just had a fit done and he said I could comfortably go down a few more spaces if I wanted to but I kind of like it as is atm.

It's a cx, I take it? Can't put my finger on why, but it's not quite a 'hot' for me, but I sure as hell would enjoy it if it were mine. So, uh, yeah - not hot, but I'd like to own it, whatever that means.

It's the dork disk and the platform pedals. Remove those and it's hot.

Did your fitter suggest a zero setback seatpost? It looks like the saddle is slammed forward. You either need a celeste saddle or black bartape also.

On the subject of the fit.......A) yes I have REALLY bad back and neck issues....B) will get professional fit but its working fine for me now so I would rather wait a bit and slim down now that its getting warmer.............and white? Really********** It gets too dirty too quick!!! I ride in less than idea conditions sometimes......(pouring rain in a thunderstorm because I drove 4 hours........... was planning to do a third century but the conditions made me do 50......) do you know a way to keep it white? I had red lizard skin on my last bike and I turned that black on the corners of the bars......(like my hands there).......how do you keep it white?

I have red lizardskin on my bike right now and it is going black. Fast. I plan to fix it by putting black on next time.

Yea, I look at it sometimes and think there's something not quite right. I think because it's designed to take really quite large tyres all the clearances are bigger than they would be on a normal road bike which leads to a bit of a spindly look. It looks so much nicer with mud guards on it but now spring is finally showing it's face I decided I'd take them off (well, took them off to clean it and decided to not put them back on is more accurate).

It is great fun to ride though. Stick some knobbly tyres on it and I can keep up with the FS mtbs around the local loop.

Oh... no way to keep it white. It will turn black. But when it's fresh white, it's going to look hot. Again, it's a nice bike, and if you like it, that's all that matters. But for me, aesthetically speaking, changing those parts to white will definitely make your bike look better.

Unfortunately I only have room for one bike so this is also my runaround bike, hence the half platform half clipless pedals. Dork disc I've always been a bit unsure about. It does get beaten around a fair amount and I figure it's there for a reason. Hopefully replacing the wheels when I get a bit of money so will probably leave it off then.

It's got another about half inch at the back. If I had a zero setback post it would end up almost slammed back and I'm not into spending more money than I have to, especially seeing as I'm a pretty light guy so probably don't put much strain on it.

The celeste bar tape was done on a bit of a whim after fitting because I had narrower bars fitted and my old (black) tape was on it's last legs anyways. I decided a bianchi really needed a bit more celeste than mine had, hence the bar tape. Trying out the fit for a month or so then deciding if I need a new saddle but if I do I'll probably go for one with celeste accents. Maybe something like this http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=375971

Hottish

Brake Clean. Not that wimpy crap with no CFC's either.

OK guys dropped the bars like y'all suggested.......I like the way it felt for right now but we will see when I actually ride in a moment....Here's a link.....can someone pull it out of photo bucket again?IMG_20140421_154946_374_zpse65409ca.jpg Photo by TheBoss13913 | Photobucket