'65 Bianchi

[billkilpatrick]

The latest - and I certainly hope the last - manifestation of this bicycle. Bought a pair of used, aluminium Campagnolo racing wheels, changed the adjustable quill stem to a classic, much lighter and less clunky-looking, gooseneck shape, and put on some new brake-lever hoods. Still undecided about which colour handlebar tape I should use and whether a black saddle works better than the brown - spoiled for choice. A much - very much - lighter bicycle - absolutely flies along. Happy old boy ...

 

[billkilpatrick]

Settled on basic black - bars and seat - awaiting new tubs.

 

[Biankeith]

Absolutely lovely!

 

[frkl]

Settled on basic black - bars and seat - awaiting new tubs.

Very nice!

Embrace the light/dynamo holder on the fork. Modern ones, even sometimes classic looking, actually work ok.

 

[billkilpatrick]

Very nice!

Embrace the light/dynamo holder on the fork. Modern ones, even sometimes classic looking, actually work ok.

Grazie ... Came with two dynamo powered lamps, front and back, but threading the wire through the frame in the holes provided would be a nightmare. Besides ... she won't let me out at night.

 

[frkl]

AXA makes a little silver one, and they have a retro silver front light too. Wouldn't be too hard to make them play nice on that bracket

 

[frkl]

AXA makes a little silver one, and they have a retro silver front light too. Wouldn't be too hard to make them play nice on that bracket

Even if you never used it, it would look cool, i think

 

[frkl]

Sorry, i like to vicariously build bikes. I think of it as research for future projects.

You could also go with the Randonneur/passhunter style of a nice retro flashlight, which you could retrofit with leds, if you wanted it to be more useful. Could even put a single red one in the end to serve as a tail light.

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