Help me identifying my new Benotto
04-14-24, 05:44 AM
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Help me identifying my new Benotto
Hi.
I've just joined this forum as I have realised there are many passionate experts here.
I recently bought a steel Benotto to be added to my small collection of '70s and early '80s Italian steel road bikes.
Understanding the model and year of the Benotto is revealing a challenge.
No help from the seller. The bike itself, while largely Super Record, appears to have been given a misellaneous equipment.
Crankset is SR '73, shifter Nuovo Record '76, brakes are Campy post '78, brake levers are SR etc.
Tubes are most likely Columbus SL: seat tube is 27,2mm and the sticker seems the right one.
Following all my researches on internet, I would say it is not a '78 or later 3000 (no diamond shaped chainstays) but it does not seem to be a 2500 either.
I add a hopefully working link to some pictures and hope someone will help.
As, apparently, I am not allowed to post links, I will ask members' comprehension if I make the thing a little difficult.
Link is at Flickr
Please put the site address on your browser research space.
After the "com" please add "photos/199536982@N05"
I appreciate this is quite cumbersome, apologies.
Many thanks in advance.
Gianmarco
I've just joined this forum as I have realised there are many passionate experts here.
I recently bought a steel Benotto to be added to my small collection of '70s and early '80s Italian steel road bikes.
Understanding the model and year of the Benotto is revealing a challenge.
No help from the seller. The bike itself, while largely Super Record, appears to have been given a misellaneous equipment.
Crankset is SR '73, shifter Nuovo Record '76, brakes are Campy post '78, brake levers are SR etc.
Tubes are most likely Columbus SL: seat tube is 27,2mm and the sticker seems the right one.
Following all my researches on internet, I would say it is not a '78 or later 3000 (no diamond shaped chainstays) but it does not seem to be a 2500 either.
I add a hopefully working link to some pictures and hope someone will help.
As, apparently, I am not allowed to post links, I will ask members' comprehension if I make the thing a little difficult.
Link is at Flickr
Please put the site address on your browser research space.
After the "com" please add "photos/199536982@N05"
I appreciate this is quite cumbersome, apologies.
Many thanks in advance.
Gianmarco
04-14-24, 06:15 AM
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flickr a less than ideal host for your purpose as it permitteth not the visitor to extract images
picture of complete machine -
https://flickr.com/photos/199536982@N05/53653274460/
link to gallery
https://flickr.com/photos/199536982@N05/
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flickr a less than ideal host for your purpose as it permitteth not the visitor to extract images
picture of complete machine -
https://flickr.com/photos/199536982@N05/53653274460/
link to gallery
https://flickr.com/photos/199536982@N05/
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04-14-24, 08:14 AM
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Eye Aide, Si?
Hi.
I've just joined this forum as I have realised there are many passionate experts here.
I recently bought a steel Benotto to be added to my small collection of '70s and early '80s Italian steel road bikes.
Understanding the model and year of the Benotto is revealing a challenge....
Many thanks in advance.
Gianmarco
I've just joined this forum as I have realised there are many passionate experts here.
I recently bought a steel Benotto to be added to my small collection of '70s and early '80s Italian steel road bikes.
Understanding the model and year of the Benotto is revealing a challenge....
Many thanks in advance.
Gianmarco
OP's Album.
(Kudos on providing pics of pertinent frame details, sir!)
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04-14-24, 08:24 AM
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Eye Assist, Si? A Second Look.
(Portacatena dropouts date it to roughly ~'77-82ishy.)
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04-14-24, 10:00 AM
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Based on those images it's a higher level model, possibly a Modelo 3000. The treatment of the chain stays and crimping of the fork are indicative.
04-14-24, 10:57 AM
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My dad got his benotto 1500 around 1979. Was the same champagne color as yours, and came with a campy nuovo record groupset. It has been repainted, but it has the same benotto markings on the seat stay cap, and I think the same embossed B on the rear brake bridge lugs.
Mine has heart cutouts on the dt lug, and top tube. Has a heart cutout on the BB shell, and benotto dropouts front and rear. No chrome anywhere and the derailleur routing goes underneath the bb.
Mine has heart cutouts on the dt lug, and top tube. Has a heart cutout on the BB shell, and benotto dropouts front and rear. No chrome anywhere and the derailleur routing goes underneath the bb.
04-14-24, 11:02 AM
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its drilled for the campy portocanto. So 1977-82?
I have NOS matched gold silca pump for that frame.
Where are you located?
I have NOS matched gold silca pump for that frame.
Where are you located?
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@ slow rolling: thanks for your answer. Based on the info from the Benotto 1979 catalog posted on machiine. com, the 1500 frame was made with "special alloy tubing" which means they were not Columbus SL which seem to the tubes use for my Benotto. Fact is that in the same catalog there are Benotto 3000, Benotto 2500, Benotto 2300, Benotto 2000, Benotto 1500, Benotto 850 and Benotto 800 all being road bikes!!
Quite difficult to identify a frame!
Quite difficult to identify a frame!
04-14-24, 01:38 PM
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That thing is effing sweet. I had a comparably equipped Benotto mixte with the same finish (now gifted to a friend) and it rode really well.
Enjoy it!
Enjoy it!
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