Benotto Model 5000 Turbo Bicycle

Benotto Model 3500 Bicycle Frame set with original Benotto Pantographed 52t chainring PLEASE READ EVERYTHING< Its long sorry, WE DO NOT TAKE RETURNS. Made from Columbus MS main tubes and by the BB marking , im assuming SLX stays. (The chromed fork has an SLX Steerer) This one has Gipemme Shifter boss mounted on the downtube, with internal cable routing through the downtube, A recess in the seat tube for the wheel to get in nice and tight. Also has nice internal brake cable routing through the top tube Never painted from Benotto, . Its a not a stripped frame, its never seen a wheel in the dropouts. Gipimme vertical dropouts in the rear and Campy chromed dropouts in the front The coolest part about this is you can see the nice brazing, you can also paint whatever color you want There are quite a few differences in the higher end models, the 5000s are very different from each other, We have several and the cable routing, brazeon parts, and seat stay attachmenets are different on most of them. The chainstays are the Diamante (diamond shaped), something that purportedly came from De Rosa. One of Benottos Builders in Mexico even went to Italy to train under De Rosa, Raul Garza. Lots of legend, few facts.  There are a lot of rumors of whether frames were built in Mexico or Italy. They certainly had some contract builds made in Italy, while production was concurrently being done in Mexico.  It wasnt a big deal to have one of the many master builders in Italy make production bikes for your company. Many of the American brands used the Billato brothers and bunch of other lesser known builders in Italy (but not lesser builders by any stretch). Many of the Italian Brands also purportedy used Italian contract builders, Camilotto comes to mind.  Many of whom probably stayed busy building high quality bikes for the big brands for a myriad of reasons, perhaps due to being purposely incognito and not having to self promote or brand themsleves.  I would also guess it was good business to keep these contract builders busy so as to not have to compete with more master builders. Mosty conjecture but,were not all wanting to brand and promote ourselves and not all of we humans are competitive. Some just want to do what they want to do without all the "business" stuff, perhaps artists loving the craft vs the accolades.  I know hard to imagine in our culture. Anyway. We have a few Simoncini built Benotto frames in the store that were made for Benotto in Italy and never sold. Perhaps a potential partnership on a new frame or a test run on something that didnt pan out? Also has the heart cutout in the BB Shell, its slightly different and cleaner than most and has SLX engraved so we will assume that tubing was at least partially used. 55cm x 54cm center to center measurements Rear Spacing is 130MM for 8-9-0 speed.  This may have been a pre production 90's built frame that never made it into production Another enigma KNOW THAT YOURE BUYING AN UNKNOWN, UNCATALOGUED, PROBABLY 1 OFF BIKE THAT NO ONE REALLY KNOWS THE STORY ON. Will be shipped, probably bike flights, fork removed from the frame.  IF YOU HAVE A SHIPPING ISSUES WITH YOUR LOCATION, PLEASE QUESTION AHEAD OF TIME. IF YOU BUY IT AND THEN START ASKING FOR THINGS AND HAVING ISSUES, WE WILL CANCEL THE SALE.  THIS IS PARTLY DUE TO SCAMS, ASKING FOR COURIERS OR ALTERNATIVE ADDRESSES AND THE REASON WE HAVE NOT SOLD FRAMES AND BIKES ON EBAY FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS.   WE NOW WOULD LIKE TO SELL A FEW. This must be shipped to the address on your account and will have to be signed for. Visit My eBay Store:
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