Ricardo O’s 1983 Bottecchia Malvor Team

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It’s been a while since our last venture in the Highbrow OTS, so we will make up for it ten-fold with this real live racing bicycle. Ricardo O’s 1983 Bottecchia is especially fitting, since we are smack in the middle of The Giro. This (1980 to 1989)—in my humble opinion—is the finest era of road racing bicycles, foreign or domestic.

Year: 1983 Make: Bottecchia Model: Malvor Team , 58 c-c
A little bit about it:
Attached picture shoes the bicycle as it came to me,with the original Ambrosio rims and part of the seat leather chewed by rats.
Apparently the rest  also original, all Campagnolo Record.
Looked almost unused. The seller in the eighties raced it here by local  professionals riders several times.
He said the bike was at the 1983 Giro with the Bottecchia Malvor Team. Quizás…but I like to believe it.
It has a sister in red & white that came from Merano two years ago. That is a 61 c-c and looks newer.
Both speaks perfect italian..all day…

Thanks Ricardo

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  • older1

    No clinchers and stamped dropouts here! Too bad someone already pilfered the kickstand, pie plate, reflectors, and safety levers! Just kidding, of course; what a beautiful bike!
    It’s always difficult to imagine how anyone could condemn such a special bike to forlorn confinement while the rest of us have been content to putz around on mass-production fodder.

  • http://trailerparkcyclist.blogspot.com Tim Joe Comstock

    This stuff drives me crazy! I like the bit about rats chewing on the seat. But as usual, the background fascinates me as much as the bikes themselves.

    Ricardo O, your shop looks like a place where Geppetto himself would be comfortable. What is that cast-metal bike stand? And isn’t that a period arts and crafts piece you are using for a work bench?

    And oh, those bikes are…special. That 61cc redhead would suit me just fine. Someday…

    • Ricardo Ortega

      The cast metal bike stand comes from an old bike shop that was in my hometown, Viña del Mar. I remember their exhibit parquet with a row of brand new Raleigh roadsters there. Former owner’s grandson told me that those stands were a local casted copy of originals from Italy, their grandparents’ homeland.

      About the work bench, is a very simple but well constructed piece that came from Buenos Aires. Inside the drawer a curious graffiti: “Perón el macho”

  • Jason Kelly

    Hi Ricardo, May I ask if you know where to get a Bottecchia head badge or decal, I’m down here in New Zealand and I’m struggling to get something. Cheers Jason