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Quite a few of you will know that I tend to be a person with strong opinions, well with that in mind, I'm going to post a bike here, but am refusing to list it, as I feel it does not conform the the Trade Descriptions Act.
The Bottechia 701 Vintage 2010.
What Bottechia have done, is to take their track bike, and put brakes on it, a freewheel, and a Rolls-type saddle on it, and then call it "Vintage". This I feel is just nasty profiteering, as Bottechia have a history of beautiful steel-framed bikes that is extremely highly thought of. To call this I-wanna-get-in-on-the-fixie-act shit, "Vintage", makes me a bit sick. Its not making the list. If Bottechia were represented on this forum as a contributor, I'd neg-rep the bastard. What a bullshit thing to do?!
How is this Vintage Italian style? What a load of shit.
In the immortal words from Little Britain - I don't like it.