Bottecchia fan
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Bikes: 1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo (frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame), 1974 Peugeot UO-8
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Need help to identify an old Bottecchia I just acquired
Thanks T-Mar - it's shame that somebody changed the old tubular rims but I don't think I'm going to bother trying to replace them with the original Fiamme red labels. I'll probably rebuild with alloy clinchers. Any idea where I can get the wheel building specs on the Nuovo Tipo hubs? I've been looking through pictures of old Bottecchia's to refresh my memory but I can't find any that show a tubing decal on a Giro. The special didn't have one and I found a shot of a restored Professional with the sticker on the seat tube just below the 'Carnielli' sticker but all I could find of the Giro was one shot of a rather rundown example with some non-descript blur at the base of the downtube. Couldn't tell if that was a tubing decal or not. I believe the frameset is Columbus Tretubi. Does that ring a bell?
-Derrick