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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
Just perfect the way it is! 
BTW: Bianchi are moving their frame manufacturing back to Italy. Right now their frames are made in Vietnam but the new factory is being built in Italy as I type this. |
I heard they are building a brand new factory in Italy also. Like many industrialized nations, the people building the frames are more then likely immigrants from North Africa or Eastern Europe. Not that there's any thing wrong with that and I am sure they are trained very well but the romantic drunken Italian old man in their small shop welding up frames are long gone, at least not in the Bianchi factory. I still like those boutique one off italian frames. Just today, I was dropped on the group ride and rode pass a guy with a Casati on my way up to the finish. I commented on his bike and I have the grandpa of his young frame. It was a very pretty aero steel frame with a simple paint job unlike frames today. 4000 bucks for a steel frame is a bit much for my blood.
Their lower end carbon frames are built in Vietnam?
What's local racing scene like in Australia back in those dark days 30 years ago, or now? Did you guys have a lot of road races or large crits like they do in Europe? For us, back in the mid to late 80s into the 90s, were city block crits. Road races were very rare. WE normally did about a mile around some industrial parks, sometimes with a hill where everyone would get pounded by the stronger riders. After 50-60 laps, oh, you feel that little hump on the road.