Monosujet.com » Campagnolo super record http://monosujet.com/blog Skiing and Cycling - It's why you're here :) Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:43:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Bianchi SUPER LEGGERA! http://monosujet.com/blog/2009/07/superleggera/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=superleggera http://monosujet.com/blog/2009/07/superleggera/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:32:45 +0000 Paul http://www.monosujet.com/blog/?p=13 Finally got one! I’ve been searching for a Bianchi Superleggera on EBay for years, but most of them are in terrible shape: dinged, rusted, pitted so I kind of gave up hope… until I rebuilt my 1984 Bianchi Veloce and was bit by the Superleggera bug yet again (my dream bike as a kid – my dream bike 30 years later :) ) A quick search on Google listed one for sale in California; tiny picture, barely visible, I almost didn’t contact the seller. Am I glad I did! Karl from Costa Mesa, couldn’t have come across a nicer guy. He bought the bike new as a kid and had kept all the original parts – including the original Almarc leather handle bars; sounded too good to be true! He sent me some hi-res photos, the bike was gorgeous! Karl had kept it in his living room all these years and it showed; hardly a flaw in the original paint, glistening chrome, only the original Mavic OR10s were missing – but I found those too! Could it get any better? Karl, a picture of you with your bike ?

THANKS Karl (aka “The Real Santa”) !!

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]]> http://monosujet.com/blog/2009/07/superleggera/feed/ 9 Bianchi Veloce http://monosujet.com/blog/2009/07/vintage-bianchis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-bianchis http://monosujet.com/blog/2009/07/vintage-bianchis/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:46:28 +0000 Paul http://www.monosujet.com/blog/?p=9 I’ve been obsessed with cycling, bikes and parts ever since my childhood friend Greg extolled the virtues of Super Record and his father’s gold chrome Medici Pro Strada. Cute bike; Campagnolo, Cinelli, 19 pounds, but it wasn’t truly Italian. Around the same time, I also discovered Celeste… At the time, Pinarello Gios and Mercks were all better bikes, but nothing looked as sexy and nothing was as cool as a Celeste Bianchi. I pleaded my father for a Superleggera for the following two years, and when summer of 1985 came around, fed up with all the Superleggera and Campagnolo dinner talk he bought me the next (next) best thing: a Bianchi Veloce with Campagnolo… Triomphe. Superleggera it was not, and not a Super Record part in sight, but it was decked out with a new generation of campy no one had ever seen and it was of course… Celeste. Even with all it’s shortcomings (no chrome anywhere and Gipiemme dropouts with (gasp) fender eyelets!), I rode that bike like I was Greg Lemond. Over the years, I upgraded everything I could to C-Record (because by 1986 you know, Super Record had become sooooo yesterday) and simi-chromed all dropouts to make them shine like chrome. I’m still changing parts on it to this day finally replacing that hideous Triomphe crank. I raced it for several years and even did my first century on it, but my dreams of a Superleggera never faded, not even 30 years later.

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