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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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Not the same, though, is it? Using drugs doesn't constitute cheating for musicians and artists!
At least, I don't recall anyone proposing to retrospectively strip any of them of their chart-placings and awards for it, and retrospectively giving them to, er...(tries to think of non-drug-using artist)...Cliff Richard and, um, the Osmonds.
It's obviously very different, but it would be highly amusing to see how the charts looked after a thorough cleansing of recreational or performance enhancing drug use.
I think the better analogy would be to see all novelty records stripped of their chart positions as they clearly had an unfair advantage over real music and hard working muscians. For example, how could Joe Dolce's "Shaddup you face" possibly keep Ultravox's "Vienna" off being number one without something underhand being at play?
Not gonna happen is it? So I might as well remember both songs for what they were at the time.
Did I mention that I absolutely LOVED the Bianchi Mega Pro paintjob?
Perhaps they should- hard to see that Sgt Pepper would have sounded anything like as good if they'd just been on tea and sandwiches.
With regards the bike: Emperor's (old) clothes? I think it looks much less good than the either of the two standard paint jobs. I saw one in the fluoro celeste in the flesh a couple of weeks ago- it is just stunning.
Yeah, some of Black Sabbath's greatest stuff was written when they were coked out of their minds. And some of their greatest performances were played in the same state.
Would it have been the same sober?!
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.
If it's any consolation I can surmise you're fairly well used to the feeling by now.
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.
Stick some Celeste tyres on and you have a deal.
Not the best Photoshop ever, but you get the idea...
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Potenza? Nah... Needs Record.
I absolutely LOVED the painting on the Mega Pro frames... But I'm glad I never bought one as they were generally short lived.
I built this as a substitute a few months ago as it reminded me (vaguely, obviously) of the Pantani era Bianchi... And yes, I know there's black bits in the groupset.
I need this with aluminium Athena on it.
That's one for my Veloporn collection!
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.....
If Record still came in silver, I'd remortgage the house for one of those. However, as it's a black groupset, I'm only prepared to sell one of the kids.
potenza?
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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