Re: [CR]Bianchi Specialissima on eBay

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:41:20 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Bianchi Specialissima on eBay
References: <141.34b816d2.2e8b2a41@aol.com>


LouDeeter@aol.com wrote:
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> chuck schmidt offered:
> This is not Bianchis top model, but a nice bike.
>
> I'm thinking that this model may have been the top of the Bianchi line in
> 1983.

Bianchi's top model each year was the team bike; some years it was the Super Leggera, some years it was the Super Corsa, some years ?. The Specialissima was not the top of their line.

Here's some catalogs with models available in the USA:

•Bianchi Catalog, 1982 -- 24 pages, twenty different models including the Campione del Mondo, Tipo Corsa, Super Leggera, Super Corsa, and Super Pista...

•Bianchi Catalog, 1983 -- 32 pages, sixteen different models including the Campione del Mondo, Tipo Corsa, Super Leggera, and Super Pista...

•Bianchi Catalog, 1985 -- 28 pages, nineteen different models including the Centenario celebrating Bianchi's 100th year constructing bikes, Mondiale, Campione...

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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