FINNEY1973
Senior Retro Guru
Bottecchia Equipe – Columbus Gilco MS tubing.
Despite trawling the interwebs I can’t locate this exact example in any brochures, although the Equipe does appear in other Columbus tubesets – MS is listed but was probably special order. Early 90’s with the Italic Bottecchia script, 130mm rear spacing, purchased with a real mish-mash of components. Having a box of Mavic components waiting for a frame, I thought this would be a suitable candidate.
Comes in pretty weighty at over 9kg though the ride is sublime. Geometry is tight enough to give it a proper race bike feel.
One of those frames that has many, many manhours in it – the lugs are something else – to get these to fit so perfectly with the random tube shapes is a true expression of the skill of the men who built these frames. There is only one truly round tube on the frame, that being the headtube. The rear triangles are 4 different tube shapes, really pretty but i’d imagine a huge expense in producing such a frame.
Build Spec:
• Mavic 305 headset
• Mavic 370 stem
• Mavic 350 handlebars
• Mavic 440 brake levers & calipers.
• Mavic 610 bottom bracket
• Mavic 631 crankset : 52-38 Mavic chainrings
• Mavic 862 front derailleur
• Mavic 840 rear derailleur
• Mavic 821 downtube levers
• Mavic 646 pedals
• Mavic 350 hubs 36 hole
• Wolber Profil18 rims
• Marchisio 8 speed freewheel 13:26
• Wipperman Connex 8 speed chain
• Wolber Profil20 magnesium rims
• Gipiemme 25mm 600CA Crono Sprint seatpost
• Elite Macan bottle cages
• Silva bartape
• Flite Titanium saddle
• Tufo S33 Pro tubulars 21mm
Despite trawling the interwebs I can’t locate this exact example in any brochures, although the Equipe does appear in other Columbus tubesets – MS is listed but was probably special order. Early 90’s with the Italic Bottecchia script, 130mm rear spacing, purchased with a real mish-mash of components. Having a box of Mavic components waiting for a frame, I thought this would be a suitable candidate.
Comes in pretty weighty at over 9kg though the ride is sublime. Geometry is tight enough to give it a proper race bike feel.
One of those frames that has many, many manhours in it – the lugs are something else – to get these to fit so perfectly with the random tube shapes is a true expression of the skill of the men who built these frames. There is only one truly round tube on the frame, that being the headtube. The rear triangles are 4 different tube shapes, really pretty but i’d imagine a huge expense in producing such a frame.
Build Spec:
• Mavic 305 headset
• Mavic 370 stem
• Mavic 350 handlebars
• Mavic 440 brake levers & calipers.
• Mavic 610 bottom bracket
• Mavic 631 crankset : 52-38 Mavic chainrings
• Mavic 862 front derailleur
• Mavic 840 rear derailleur
• Mavic 821 downtube levers
• Mavic 646 pedals
• Mavic 350 hubs 36 hole
• Wolber Profil18 rims
• Marchisio 8 speed freewheel 13:26
• Wipperman Connex 8 speed chain
• Wolber Profil20 magnesium rims
• Gipiemme 25mm 600CA Crono Sprint seatpost
• Elite Macan bottle cages
• Silva bartape
• Flite Titanium saddle
• Tufo S33 Pro tubulars 21mm