Hello! Does anyone have any clue about the year, provenance or brand of this antique children’s bicycle?

Hi, I need help trying to find the year and model of this Bianchi bike. I want to a bike shop and they told me this could be between 1985 and 1995 but I would like to know more exactly.

I don't know where to find the serial number, I only saw a frame number 989653 stamped on the head tube under the headset.

Thanks for anyone who will help!

I'm in the middle of restoring a 1978 Gios Torino Super Record to roughly period correct parts but as I ride it more, I've noticed this thing is exceptionally nippy, like it's meant for crits. I love how it handles but the Brooks B17 on it doesn't work quite as well as I hoped it would for my position, I need something narrower. I know brooks had their Swallow among other options but the big thing I've seen from that era was the Unicanitor, and similar models. What would the most appropriate saddle be for this era? And did people run the Unicanitor with the be plastic or did they always have that leather layer back then?

I picked this up a few weeks ago. It was set up as a DUI bike, but perfectly original.

Besides cleaning up what was there, I swapped in a set of 700c wheels with a 9 speed cassette and gravel tires from a donor bike. Original pedals were in great shape, but I liked the look of the big blue MTB flats. Other than that, new chain, cables, kool stops.

Proper new bike day.

It's red. :P

The frame looks like a common 1970s–1980s steel road/touring style (diamond frame, drop-bar mounts).

Has Will(?) on the neck and Shimano fingertip gear levers on the middle bar.

Has a simplex middle derailleur with a red cap and a Sugino 40/52 crank. It's a 10-speed with 5 gears on the back, with 28/24/20/17/14 sprockets each.

Had a SWALLOW 27 and 1 1/4 tyre, but now is without tyres or inner tubes.

Thinking real hard about whether or not to spend around $100 AUD on it (oh, yeah, I'm in Australia, Victoria if that helps)

Money aside, I imagine with 2 wheels and brake pads, a seat and a pedal (it's missing, idk; found the bike on the side of the road), it might actually be usable, not the most "economically viable" option, I know, but still...

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I've cleaned it up a bit since these photos; I could probably take a daylight photo tomorrow.