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Looks like a lot of work to fix it up. Kevin is the expert though

Bianchi is a good brand, but that looks like a small frame. How tall are you?

If you ever post bike pics, always post the side with the drive chain on it, it makes identification much, much easier. That looks like it might be from the early eighties or even seventies(the metal pieplate and the way the hubs look) but if thats the case it's probably a midrange model because of the lack of awful suicide levers/stem mounted shifters. Some of the rust seems to be in a scary place(where the stem goes.)

That rust looks like its in the headset, not the fwame

Haven't rode it since 1987...

the bike looks better than your face.

the awesome Assassin wrote:Haven't rode it since 1987...

I'd say throw it out and buy a new one...

Probably not worth it. You definitely need to replace the chain and all the cabling and buy new brake pads and tubes/tires.

Really, it mostly depends on how bad the rust has gotten into the bearings in the fork/gooseneck assembly. If it's seized up the bike is almost certainly totaled.

Dumpster bike now with surly fork:



Before:

I'm just glad you replaced the crime against humanity that was that stem.

Its going on a bike for my mom

Geeheeb wrote:Its going on a bike for my mom

Welp, that's what it's for.

I just don't understand how things like that bar/stem combo happen. I mean, I realize the money I spend on my mountain bikes is insane to most people and they'd rather just cobble something together, but fuck, if you don't like the drop bars, how hard can it be to find a regular handlebar at, I dunno, a flea market or something? Actual time, effort and thought must've gone into putting that stem on that bike, and it's just... arrrgh.

drop bars give you a few different hand positions, which is great after riding 8 hours

Geeheeb wrote:drop bars give you a few different hand positions, which is great after riding 8 hours

Doing a 50 mile charity ride at the Harpoon Brewery in Vermont next weekend. Can't wait.

http://www.harpoonpointtopoint.com/

Also accepting donations...

So I dropped off my bike at the shop for a tune up. Picked it up today and the owner told me it needed a chain and a cassette. He charged me $111 including labor. Should these things need to be replaced at 1300 miles?
The guy is really nice and I do trust him.

Well if they were worn out, yes. But that is not a lot of miles. What kind/brand/model did you have, and what did he put on? Is it a 10 or 11 speed cassette?

The original was an SRAM 11x32 8 speed. Not sure what brand he put on.

tssss why don't u get a cd player or sumpthing?

1300 isn't shit for 8 speed, unless you were riding in wet and sand and never lubed up ever. It should really last longer than that, and the tools to check and change a chain and cassette are really cheap.

Geeheeb wrote: and never lubed up ever.

I think he just sticks it in and hopes for the best...

Geeheeb wrote:1300 isn't shit for 8 speed, unless you were riding in wet and sand and never lubed up ever. It should really last longer than that, and the tools to check and change a chain and cassette are really cheap.

I'm not very good at working on the bike...
I'll hopefully be upgrading next year to a full carbon bike.

Erik13 wrote:

Geeheeb wrote:1300 isn't shit for 8 speed, unless you were riding in wet and sand and never lubed up ever. It should really last longer than that, and the tools to check and change a chain and cassette are really cheap.

I'm not very good at working on the bike...
I'll hopefully be upgrading next year to a full carbon bike.

Who's dying now...?

Erik13 wrote: I'll hopefully be upgrading next year to a full carbon bike.

a) fuck carbon

b) that won't mean you don't still have to do some minimal maintenance yourself. At least learn how to lube the chain, man. It's really not hard.

I have almost as much fun building and maintaining bikes as I do riding them.

Carbon is great and all but the bikes I like to ride are all steel. I did buy a bike with a carbon fork, and I like that but I don't think I will ever want a full carbon ride.