Vintage Road Bike. Excellent Condition - $400 (Duluth)
I love this bike but unfortunately is a man's bike to big for my women's frame. It was hidden in my grandfathers basement and I was thrilled to find it and get it going again. She is beautiful and gets many compliments for her hipster beauty. May need a little tuning but overall rides well.
Look how not lined up the lettering is on the down tube. Bottecchia's are nice looking lower end bikes that occasionally had some odd options. For example I picked up a Bottechia Giro D'Italia frame, near the top of their line in the 70s, that was a very light Columbus tube frame with campy shifters/front derailler, a shimano long cage rear, and cheap Nervar cranks. It didn't make a lot of sense.
I dont know that this is the actual model name, as I dont think these were clearly labeled. The paint on this is decent but not fantastic, and as much as I'm rolling my eyes at 'her hipster beauty' the seller seems very sweet. In the part of the ad I didn't include she comes off like we'll be friends and maybe, just in an ancillary capacity, you'll also buy this bike. The pedals are in pretty good shape. Those are definately simplex shifters and the long cage rear mech is probably shimano or simplex too. No good look at the crank but it's probably Nervar. $400 is bonkers overpriced, but it seems like it's more out of ignorance than opportunism.
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