Hey All,
New to the forum, new to road bikes. So, I'm told I have a pretty nice piece of Italian steel here. I was looking for a good steel bike to commute to work on and I found one that was also good looking! I bought it off of CL from a guy who seems to build up a lot of bikes and sell them. He told me it was an '89 team ADR replica. Been searching the previous posts and have learned a lot so far. But I'm wondering if I really have an '89 and I'm wondering wondering if he just made a really good looking bike and threw some stickers on it. Notice in the pics (I'm tired of reading these posts that start with you guys yelling at us guys about needing pics!! :-) ) that one of the championship stickers has a final date of '89 and one has a final date of '85...Also, I can't find anybody talking about a Bottecchia with Sachs gear on it. The serial number on the bottom has one number showing, painted over?? Is it really the Columbus Aelle tre tubi? Could you tell me a little bit about what I have here? I love the bike, do I have something nice? Also the rear cassette has 8 sprockets on it, thought these bikes could only get 6 or 7 in there?
Alright, I'll reserve the rest of my questions for follow up...Thank you, love the forum, looking forward to learning more!