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Bianchi Pantani full bikeBianchi release Pantani edition Specialissima
It might only be 19 years since the late Marco Pantani won the Giro D'Italia and Tour de France in the same year - however Bianchi have released details of this Specialissima a year early with the same colour scheme as the Mega Pro XL that Pantani rode to his famous double in 1998.
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While the Mega Pro XL was made with light aluminium, the Specialissima is all-carbon and superlight, built for climbers like Pantani himself. The frame and fork are hand-painted, with a recreated Bianchi eagle badge in the same gold colours as on Pantani's bike adorning the head tube. The frame is 780g, with Bianchi's 'Countervail' vibration cancelling technology for a smooth and stable ride.
The bike is built with light components to compliment the frame, with a Campagnolo Super Record mechanical groupset, Bora Ultra 35 tubular wheels and a gold FSA K-Force carbon stem.
There's no information available on when the bike is set to land, pricing or how many will go on sale just yet, but we're guessing it will only be through a small number of Bianchi dealers should you want to enquire about owning this slice of cycling history....
Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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I come here occasionally to check out the potty-mouthed pretend contender wannabees. I see they are still strong.
Thanks Barry,
If you read the other 600 posts I've made you'll find that almost without exception, I am neither potty-mouthed nor ignorant towards others. I pride myself as a cyclist of 30+ years experience and am always happy to help and advise where I can.
Sometimes however, I do lose patience with those whose minds are closed and have little or no ability or will to see beyond the end of their own noses...And notably so with a famous troll on this site.
I'd love to talk Bianchi with you or anyone, but this thread is sadly broken beyond repair.
I'm amazed at the levels of gullibility people have regarding sports and drugs. Look how clean Armstrong was until he pushed his luck. People REALLY believed it, absolutely. We are all a bit like kids getting older and christmas, we want believe but we perhaps suspect something and one day Santa isn't real anymore.
Quite right. Also why I refuse to buy a Fender Stratocaster, because illegal drug user Jimi Hendrix played one.
And FYI the only Trek I'd ever buy would be a full US Postal blue/red Lance edition.
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How many races did Jimi Hendrix win on his Stratocaster?
You won't buy one of those because JH used one and did drugs, but you would buy a bike like the one ridden by the biggest drug cheat in cycling? I'm confused.
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If it's any consolation I can surmise you're fairly well used to the feeling by now.
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You're right, people who say illogical things that they can neither explain nor defend do confuse me, and since there are so many of them, so I am frequently confused.
Might help if they actually quoted the person they are insulting, so that we'd at least know who he was referring to, but perhaps that's expecting a bit much.
Anyone who swears has clearly lost the argument.
That would be the argument where stating your opinion as if fact is all you need do?
The argument where you selectively respond to snippets and create a subordinate issue that nobody but you has raised?
The argument where you simply refuse to read others responses for what they are and then insult them with accusations of waffle when they explain further?
I'm sorry I'm a bit more open minded than you clearly are. I was more than happy to accept your opinion but you have chosen to keep nipping away from your moral high ground.
There will of course now be some posting about who I may be referring to...
If only I'd quoted.
Kindly explain this
horseshitlogic.If you can't construct and explain a logical argument, and have to resort to swearing, you clearly have no case.
Clear enough?
Now that deserves a quote for its wonderful emboldened irony...
One of us doesn't understand the concept of irony. I can construct and explain a logical argument, but when you are asked to do so, you not only fail to do so, you swear.
I take my hat off to you sir...You are truly incredible
I still think it's a nice looking bike.
Clear that you believe some tired old shit based on some stuffy received wisdom, yeah.
Fluency is fluency, and the ability to articulate does not see 'swears' as a limiting factor: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S038800011400151X
Good God was this thread derrailled. It didn't quite fall of a cliff, it just slowly got cranked to 88 and then time-jumped into some post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Anyway, a beautiful yet capable bike; a stylish and passionate rider; an unrepentant cheat whose mythos transcends his feats. Those opinions could all hold true. Or not. YMMV.
Spot on.
Campagnolo (indeed most) groupset manufacturers are missing a trick by not having silver options. I'm sick to death of black carbon. That retro classic look would sell so well. I have an old bike with aluminium silver 105 on it - and even that looks good.
As it is I'd settle for this as it is in a heartbeat!
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