Off the back of a successful year for Bianchi, including the beautiful superlight Specialissima superbike, the Italian firm was turning attention at Eurobike to expanding its existing stable. This included adding a few more disc models and faithfully recreating a late-70s pro-level Bianchi as part of the L’Eroica range (Bianchi is one of the headline sponsors of the legendary Tuscan retro ride).
The Bianchi L’Eroica is built in Italy and from all-Italian tubing. As Bianchi wanted to keep the faithful chrome lugged look, it had to custom-spec the modern steel tubing with much longer, thicker sections to the butts (the tube ends). Standard tubesets’ short butts compromised the integrity of the weld sections far more than Bianchi’s engineers would like – remember this is a bike designed for the punishment of the Strada Bianca (the white chalk roads) of the L’Eroica event.
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L'Eroica or 'the heroic' is an annual event in Tuscany (and now other countries) of which Bianchi is a key sponsor
Bianchi has also specified a Campagnolo Veloce alloy rear derailleur that’s custom finished for drivetrain specialists to just bear the iconic Campag logo. The Bianchi designed hubs are laced to classic Ambrosio box-section rims (available in either clincher or tubular). The hubs are high-chrome and high flange designs, and with their drilled out design look like the Campag Record units of 30 years ago.
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