It's Alive! Bottecchia project part 3

 So after over 2 years of messing around with this bike, I finally got it done. So far I've got a little over 170 miles on it and it rides great. Basically the bike is an old Italian Bottecchia frame that had been wrecked and broken. It originally was a huge frame (60cm) that I basically chopped and channeled down to my size and put a modern cromoly head tube and new dropouts on. For a recap on the whole process, go HERE, HERE and HERE.

The finished product on the maiden voyage.

Second ride. I've made one change swapping the stem from a 110mm to a 120mm

Mid build

I'm running a 52/21 gear. It seems pretty neutral - not too hard from a stop and cruises pretty good around 17-18 mph. First scratch from where the door at the shop smacked into the dropout also....

The brake bridge is a chunk of curved tubing from an old scrap Schwinn cromo  mountain bike.

I salvaged the original pump peg. Maybe I'll try to find an old Silca frme pump.

I made some little chainstay gussets as the original tube wouldn't clear the tire.

I like the world champion 1966 decal on the downtube - same year I was born.