someone previously wrote:
"Chiorda is a real prime example of that happening.
Steel tube, cheap Campagnolo, cheap bars (steel?), cheap brakes, wing nuts on the hubs. That was the first time I'd ever seen a Valentino, and had the realization"
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just for the record, Chiorda was a top-line pro marque until it was ruined by Bianchi, and turned into a price-point bike.
That said, Bianchi did make the Gimondi-Chiorda, briefly, in about 1970, which was a very nice frame, top-quality, far as I can tell, from the one I had for awhile, and the one shown on Dale's CR site.
Charles "I'd sure like to find, or even see, a Chiorda from the mid-60s or earlier, who made them originally anyway?" Andrews SoCal