I was doing so well keeping this site alive and then work rolled back in a lots of travel. Then the son showed me his phone, with an enquiry from a friend asking if project Bianchi was still alive!!!! Wow.

I had no choice but to act as 50% of my readers were demanding an update. With such huge demand and remorse at upsetting them, I recommenced my search for an age perfect 6 speed chain in gold, and that’s NOT easy. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, despite glitter and gold going mental on the disco scene, chain manufacturers had not gone bling. But finally, yes finally, my ebay search found this….

OMG – look at that!!!!!! Wow. And the lovely greaseproof paper…. Even better it’s on the way…. And I have done the maths and it should fit with its glorious 116 links. But I have a problem… It’s this….

In a world of Apple packaging and box openings on youtube today, did they have it sorted 40 years ago already? Look how wondeful that is! By opening it will I destroy the value (mute point – first pic shows it has been opened), like a rare Star Wars action figure?

Who cares? Well for the 50% of my readers who care, I’ll go through the install and then the test run when it arrives soon.. Thanks guy(s) for getting me going again…