i've seen a bike that was from the 80's that was a top model 3000 or 3500 c
an't remember exactly that had a made in italy sticker on it.
also i have a modelo 3000 from the 80's sometime that has no made in mexico
or made in italy sticker and no heart shaped cutout in the bottom bracket
shell.
benotto's history is confusing.
i read somehwere that the reason benotto moved production to mexico was to
be close to a lady friend...a love affair...probably false...who knows you
can read all kinds of crazy things on the internet.
greg piwonka
austin tx
> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:58:13 -0500
> From: veronaman@gmail.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Benotto, Mexico, The Impossible Hour
>
> Steven Maasland previously posted this in June 2003:
> "Benotto has a web site at http://www.benotto.com.mx it doesn't say anything
> about their history, but I have an Italian book that describes how they
> started in Turin in 1931. One of the family members moved to Mexico
> City in the 70's and production was started up there. From the
> information that I have seen their top bikes were still built in Italy
> for a few years after the start-up in Mexico. Once the quality was at
> least as good in Mexico as it was in Italy, they moved all production
> to Mexico. They sponsored pro teams almost continuously from the 40's
> onwards and therefore are probably one of the most long-standing pro
> bike suppliers."
>
> Angel Garcia
> Verona, IT
>
>
>
> Along the same lines, I was watching last night the opening scene of A
> Sunday In Hell, which shows a team mechanic preping a champagne color
> Benotto for Moser or one of his teammates. The bike is all Campy, but th
ere
> is not a clear view of the RD. It looks to be either an NR or a 1st
> generation SR. Does anyone know which? A Sunday In Hell is, I believe,
the
> 1976 edition of Paris-Roubaix. Would the Benotto team bikes in that year
> have been made in Italy or Mexico?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX
>
>
>
> devotion finesse <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am watching Jorgen Leth's film "The Impossible Hour", which documents D
an
> ish racer Ole Ritter's 1974 attempts to regain the hour record from Merck
x
> in 1974.
> Ritter (and his teammate/training partner/future hour record holder Franc
es
> co Moser) are shown training in Mexico City in Benotto team kits and ridi
ng
> on Benotto bikes.
> I am wondering what year Benotto relocated from Italy to Mexico, and whet
he
> r or not there is any connection to the time spent training there in prep
ar
> ation for The Hour.
> Did Ritter ride Benotto bikes because they were local? Or did Senor Benot
to
> fall in love with Mexico while his team was training there? Or are these
t
> hings completely unrelated?
> At any point, was there Benotto production in both Italy or Mexico? Or wa
s
> the entire company "relocated" all at once?
> I always assumed that the Mexican Benottos were simply outsourced. Was th
i
> s not the case?
>
> Matthew Bowne
> Again, trying to connect the dots in...
> Brooklyn, New York
>
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