Found this bike at a consignment shop down in SC. Its a 58cm Austro Daimler Pacifica Touring Model from the mid 80's. Not a bad bike. I stripped it down and cleaned everything, added some new tires, tubes and bar tape. Its equipped with Suntour Arx RD and FD, Malliard hubs laced to 27-1/4" Weinmann rims, Weinmann Series 500 brakes and SR Sake cranks.

Many changes since the original post but here is the current build: Bianchi XL Boron 56cm steel frame, with serial number 116B1328 Cane Creek Forty threadless headset Kestrel EMS Pro carbon fork FSA OS-99 stem FSA Wing Pro compact bars FSA KForce Compact Carbon Crankset Campagnolo Veloce 10 speed shifters Campagnolo Record brakes Campagnolo Record front and rear derailleurs Campagnolo Proton Wheels Vittoria Open Corsa CX 23c tires Thomson Elite seatpost Brooks Cambium C17 I picked up a new frame this passed week from West Roxbury, MA on ebay. Built it up over the last couple days and took it on its maiden voyage this weekend. Decided to retire the 2008 Bianchi Via Nirone frame for this steel celeste beauty. Its a 2002 Bianchi XL Boron. Boron Steel is evidently a proprietary Dedacciai EOM 16.5 tubeset made for Bianchi. It weighs in at 18 lbs, which for a steel frame bike sounds pretty good. It's basically the same setup as my 08 e...