Bottecchia on You Tube 2: the revenge

When you care enough to get the very mediocre

Here, thanks to a bike obsessed Australian, we have 2 minutes and thirty-five seconds of detailed examination of a Bottecchia Top Sprinter BS200 with a Campagnolo Xenon group and lots of el-cheapo Bottecchia branded components. With its groovy hydro-forming and ace puzzle piece paint job, this bike is sure to impress under informed shoppers as an example of cutting edge Italian design (a term that has become synonymous with outsourcing).

To be fair, although this is something I rarely do, this bike is a cut above your base model Bottecchia BS 100 – the bike with the black paint intended to look like carbon fibre from a great distance. The puzzle paint scheme is kind of nearly attractive, although the whole package is let down by the hopeless looking wheels.

Bottecchia’s marketing team, keen to emphasize the Italian heritage of such imported high markup items, will be glad to see that the You Tube poster has included their pride and joy in a series of equivalent products from the company’s competitors – products like the De rosa Idol, the Pinarello Prince, and most of the current Colnago range…

Plus there’s a trippy 90’s retro rave soundtrack.

Be proud, be Bottecchia