Freek
beautiful bike! Does´nt look to have been ridden that much either. I´ve
got one too, exactly the same but mine is SLX, built up with Campagnolo in
stead of Mavic. Yours is definitely a team bike from 1988/89 I´d say. Min
e was built in the winter 89/90 and has the same features as yours includin
g a Cinelli Spoiler bb.
http://chainedrevolution.com/
There were several teams sponsored by Bottecchia in those years, most famou s of course the ADR-Bottecchia Team which Greg Lemond rode for in 89. The Humo team seems to have been a small Belgian based teams that raced mos tly on their home ground. But there was another Italian team in 88, called Malvor-Bottecchia-Sidi, that used Bottecchia Squadra´s with Mavic equipme nt and they had riders like Silvano Contini, Mario Beccia, Gianni Faresin i n their ranks and Helmut Wechselberger who actually won the Tour de Suisse that year. The Malvor team in different setups used Bottecchias from 1983 until 1990. Earlier there was also the Hoonved-Bottecchia team and in 1979 Beppe Saronn i won the Giro d´Italia for SCIC-Bottecchia. I can tell you that there´s no point mailing Bottecchia since it´s a to tally different manufacturer today, situated in Padua. The old Bottecchias were made by the Reparto Corsa of Teodoro Carnielli in Vittorio Veneto and they stopped building some- where around the mid 90ies.
Michele Francesconi Värmdö Sweden
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:01:31 +0100> From: khun.freek@gmail.com> To: Cla
ssicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]Bottecchia 88 or 89 teambike, inf
o sought> > Dear list,> > Last weekend I got my Bottecchia (the one I sold
the Anquetil book for)! And> what a bike it is. Almost my size too, with a
proper length stem it'll be> OK. Had to go to Belgium for it (near Kortrijk
), but it was worth it.> > Here are pics, in its original state:> http://ww
w.wooljersey.com/gallery/v/Freeks-racefietsen/1988+Bottecchia/ (its> a good
thing you cant smell it, ughhh!)> > So its almost completely Mavic equippe
d, its got Mavic, Columbus and> Bottecchia decals everywhere, its got a num
ber tab on the toptube, and the> rims are well-used SSC tubulars. All this
says to me: teambike, professional> rider. Who else would have that Mavic s
tuff all over, and the deals to go> with it?> So I searched for teams with
Bottecchia and Mavic equipment, and found this> obscure team: http://www.me
moire-du-cyclisme.net/pelotons/eq1989.php (scroll> down)> > The team is cal
led Humo-TW rock-Ricoh-Bottecchia. There's a Mavic name on> the shirt, the
shirt is red, so it seems to fit the bill.> > (Humo is a Belgian magazine,
TW rock stands for Torhout Werchter rock> festival) I've searched and searc
hed for pictures of this team, have not> been lucky.> > Maybe someone who h
as more knowledge of Bottecchia bikes, or knows this> team, can confirm my
reasoning? I've mailed Bottecchia in Italy, so far no> reply.> > BTW, the b
ike is made from TSX tubing and has the Cinelli 'spoiler bracket',> that sh
ould date it more precisely maybe.> > Freek (even more happy since I washed
the bike, and threw away the smelly> saddle) Faro> Rotterdam Netherlands>
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