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It is what it is - humdrum bollocks.

Dis gon be fucking humdrum.

Def. Scilly Suffolk = humdrum, tedious, frivolous.

You sir, are a cracked pot. I refute any of your pishy accusations.

Please do. Put the poor, doss old boy out his (imaginary) misery. And he can try a grovelling apology, if he's man enough...

You've still got your tin foil hat on I see.. Unlike your piss poor internet skimmed advice, my IDs come from 25 years experience in the trade. My catalogues are hard copy.

Next you'll be saying the 50+ IDs I've provided from the goodness of my heart are all straw men too? David Icke must be #1 on your browser history.

I feel sorry for the inadequacy of your ego. I can only help with frame identification. Your problems are beyond me.

Good for you, and a neat fit - it's not rocket science. Once you've brazed up a few pieces you're well away.

Here are the codes for the Team Panasonic/Weinmann paint scheme:

Blue: Ral5005

Candy (met.) White: Ral9021 or 8MM7B

The red and yellow components are just decals. I've seen coloured red and yellow electrical tape (lacquered) used effectively to replace the top tube finish.

I'll have a milkshake.

Extra crushed Chlorpromazine on top for SS.

Fuck me, have you just come off your anti psychotics?

Says the Scilly Fuckwit who lifts all his shitey 'advice' from out of date online catalogues...

Columbus EL tubing introduced 1987/8 season.

It's a 1984/5 Raleigh (not Panasonic) Team Weinmann. These were the British spec, Raleigh Panasonic used Campag or shimano parts.Reynolds full 531 c (Competition) with Gipiemme chrome drop outs/'shot in' seat stays. Quite rare with the Simplex/Edco drivetrain. Yours has the Edco Competition headset which can fetch £150 NOS. Edco were Swiss component manufacturers and in many ways well ahead of Campagnolo for innovation and engineering excellence.

The full Team Weinmann kit list is as follows:

Rear Mech: Simplex LJ 4000
Front Mech: Simplex SLJ 4000
Brakes: Weinmann Carrera 400
Headset: Edco Competition
BB: Edco Competition Double Adjustable
Chainset: Edco Competition
Saddle: Cinelli Volare SLX
Stem: Cinelli 1A
Bars: Cinelli 63-40
Gear Levers: Simplex Retro Friction
Hubs: Suntour Superbe 28H (2x front 3x rear - flat SS Spokes)
Rims: Pianni CXL - Pete Matthews
Block: 7sp Regina Extra
Chain: Sedis Silver

I've a friend who successfully found a car paint match for the Raleigh pearlescent white. Will get back to you later with details.

You're very welcome. If you want to date it, French bars/stem manufacturers usually date stamp the stem below the insertion line.

If you look on the handlebar stem (the part that's inside the frame) you'll probably find a date stamp. Looks like a 98/99.

It's a pretty decent spec Peugeot, in 7005 aluminium tubing, with what looks a Sora groupset. It's mid range for Peugeot, the Miche roller bearing headset probably an upgrade, nice touch. Solid commuter bike.

I would make another concave lid and just (low temp) silver solder it back in. That way you still have the clearance and mechanical integrity.

Okay so this is bizarre, but it works! Hong Kong based supplier selling Avid BB7 full set (front/rear and discs) in AUCTION!! I bought a set last week, paid £32 posted. And it's UK stock, they must be warehousing it here, got them in 4 days.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=351577481344&isNewKw=1&mfs=GOCLK&acimp=0&trksid=m2428.l1313.TR0.TRC0.X351577481344&sqp=351577481344

I can't believe it's not butter!!

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/jun/19/english-language-humour

Park or Shimano. My preference is for Shimano as they seem to stay sharp, for longer than any other brand.

Liking the Zipp hardware. Plush.

First sensible thing you've contributed in three pages. Merci bien.

It's a Look AL 264. It's pukka.

You haven't come up with a single piece of evidence to suggest your frame is anything other than I've described. Them's the facts. Not one. You're clearly a novice in vintage bicycle. Fair play, but most people are glad to be pointed in the right direction. I suggest you pay the cash, join the Bianchi registry and then come back here in a month with your head held low.

Low end Bianchi's were also manufactured in Japan in the early 1980's and then re-imported into Italy, with apparently cheap Ishiwata tubing.

'We've seen cases of dozens of models being being offloaded to Japan for a couple of years, then being brought back to Italy. It's all comes down to economics and the relative value of the yen to the lira. Most of Bianchi's entry and mid range models were being manufactured in Japan in the early 1980s.'

I do appreciate your churlish, devil may care attitude. If you have a trawl through my previous correct IDs (about 50 of them) you'll appreciate why you're on your own from here on in.

'You just ignore everything you don't like'.. They should nail that on your headstone. You have a somewhat magical sense of irony.

A little bit of gratitude goes a long fucking way. Enjoy your ice cream.

Sorry to kick you in the teeth when you're down but I.Just noticed yet another budget feature on your frame - bashed in chainstays. Dead give away on cheap frame builds. You'll notice this Superissima has totally round, dent free chainstays, yours has the dents on both chainstays, to give a wider clearance with cheap, plain gauge, Falck/Aelle tubes.

Sorry mate, that and everything else nails it as 'budget'.

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/Bianchi/Bianchi/photo27.html

For anyone who isn't bored senseless by the above, here's a comprehensive photo gallery of a pukka Superissima, c 1982/83. They've barely changed in design since the 1960's:

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/Bianchi/Bianchi/index.html

I can't believe it's not butter!

No need. I think everyone has lost interest by now.