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It’s definitly sl due to weight. I don’t care really what it is but as you say it’s still a bargain.looking through the thread again and all the photos. I’ve owned well over a dozen benotto going back to 1978, and have never seen one like this. I would say the nearest model to this is an 800. That’s going by the seat stay lugs and dropouts. But as an earlier poster said, no Benotto on caps so very strange. I doubt looking at tge ligs and internal it is Columbus sl. If Columbus at all, can’t really go by the badge after a heavy respray. Possibly sells or tge like. If it is a Benotto then certainly Mexican built late 80s
The late 70s through early 80s bikes were high quality with campag dropouts. People think they were built my DeRosa but they weren’t. The only Benotto built by DeRosa were the team bikes with flat fork crown and Dubois lugs.
Still an absolute bargain for £30 given the bits on it.
If you do a bit of digging then you’ll find a picture of a benotto 2500 with the exact lugs and paint that I have(once had, a sort of sparkly blue)
If you look on some websites it says that it was only the 3000 that came with campy dropouts and that it had a 27.2 seatube.
Still could be wrong, but as said, I don’t care and I’m still calling it a 2500