{"id":410,"date":"2009-09-18T22:10:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:15:50","slug":"vintage-bianchi-moped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/vintage-bianchi-moped\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Bianchi Moped"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 18, I picked up a classic, circa 1967 Bianchi moped from a friend’s barn in Fenton.\u00a0 It appeared to be in decent shape, although it hasn’t run in decades.\u00a0 It’s a Bianchi Avanti Sport, a 50 cc moped with a folding frame.\u00a0 The pictures below were taken after unloading the moped from the car.<\/p>\n

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Bianchi Avanti Sport, folded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bianchi Avanti Sport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aside from 3 decades of dust, it’s in relatively good condition.\u00a0 I immediately started on the tear-down, removing everything down to every nut and bolt.\u00a0 All parts will be cleaned, some will be replaced, then the moped will be reassembled.<\/p>\n

The odometer shows 234 miles, so this moped wasn’t heavily used.\u00a0 The fuel tank label says it holds 2 liters of 2-cycle mix, at 5%.\u00a0 I’ll assume that 5% refers to the oil-gasoline ratio, so that would be a 20:1 mix.\u00a0 Sounds a bit rich, so I’ll do more research before mixing that first batch of fuel.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there is very little data available for this machine, and most of these models were sold in Europe, as the Bianchi Aquilotto.<\/p>\n

I’ve set up a permanent page here to post updates as progress is made.<\/a><\/strong> Check back periodically.\u00a0 This should be fun to clean up and restore, and assuming it runs again, drive around the streets of Alden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1967 Bianchi Avanti Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}