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No News for 2009
Tazeworld | September 16th 2008 by Taze Brown
Bottecchia’s site is still silent about any potential new road bikes Three months after my last post about the clamorous silence from Bottecchia about the company’s plans for 2009 there is still nothing reported on the news page of th read more
Na, na, hey, hey, good riddance.
Tazeworld | September 10th 2008 by Taze Brown
Charlie “5-23″ Taaffe gets the sack The Hamilton Tiger-Cats finally made the right move this week and pulled the plug on the team’s worst coach in a decade. The only problem is that they handed the reins over to Marcel “Bellef read more
Bottecchia on YouTube 4
Tazeworld | August 28th 2008 by Taze Brown
The Neapolitan Bicyclery “Don’t get any garbage caught in the spokes of your new mountain bike!” I am still on holiday at the moment, enjoying life in the old country and trying out my dad’s new $84 (Canadian) Sportek bike fro read more
Bottecchia on You Tube 3: Beating a Dead Horse
Tazeworld | July 27th 2008 by Taze Brown
“Did I mention that it has Dura Ace?” Be impressed as cyclist from Hackney tries to convince you to buy his Bottecchia bike for only £1500 (mudguards not included). As he will point out numerous times in the space of under 2 minutes, t read more
Bottecchia: No News is Good News
Tazeworld | July 15th 2008 by Taze Brown
The News section at Cicli Bottecchia’s official site says there is “no news”. Glad to see that nothing is happening in the world of cycling right now. So much for that Tour de France… read more
Bottecchia on You Tube 2: the revenge
Tazeworld | June 10th 2008 by Taze Brown
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 Bottec read more
Bottecchia on You Tube 1
Tazeworld | June 8th 2008 by Taze Brown
Be amazed as super cool Italians proudly demonstrate the performance of their Bottecchia city-bike. It pedals, it goes around in a circle, and it stops. Fantastico! read more
Bottecchia to race at the Giro!
Tazeworld | May 20th 2008 by Taze Brown
err.. the 13th Giro delle Pesche Nettarine di Romagna factory team Bedogni Natalini Gruppo Praga Monsummanese wears the Bottechia name with pride in the race dedicated to nectarines Bottecchia enthusiasts disappointed by the company’s absence read more
Giro d’Italia leaves Sicily
Tazeworld | May 13th 2008 by Taze Brown
Fantastic Scenery Great Food Shame about the Roads Lots of crashes marked the final stage of the 2008 Giro d’Italia in Sicily, with significant injuries eliminating Bradley McGee and Stuart O’Grady from Team CSC and young Italian star R read more
Tazeworld at the Giro d’Italia: Palermo
Tazeworld | May 11th 2008 by Taze Brown
Slipstream Wins Big in Team Timetrial I eat a very nice pizza in Mondello My supercool souvenir: a Crono water bottle from Slipstream With my august position in the world bicycle industry, one of the perks is the possibility to attend the opening st read more
Weird Bikes 2 - the Bottecchia edition
Tazeworld | May 2nd 2008 by Taze Brown
a) 1986 Bottecchia Kronotech Concept From a time before the UCI took all the fun out of bike design Produced for display at Expo86 to demonstrate the company’s technological prowess, with a sculptured and streamlined carbon fibre frame and wh read more
A Tribute to Canadian Tire Bikes
Tazeworld | April 20th 2008 by Taze Brown
Making Cycling Cheaper than Ever Before For the 15 minutes before they fall apart At least this one has the forks on the right way When I started this blog, I intended to write a lot about my favourite department store chain, the well loved and utte read more
Bottecchia’s Recent History
Tazeworld | March 30th 2008 by Taze Brown
An insight into everyone’s favorite Italian bike company thanks to online European Union documents While still awaiting my inquiry about the possibility of visiting Bottecchia’s site in Cavarzere, my curiosity (and the powe read more
The Center of Italian Cycling Excellence
Tazeworld | March 26th 2008 by Taze Brown
Viale Enzo Ferrari, Cavarzere (VE) Italy The small street home to Bottecchia and 4 other major bicycle manufacturers The only question is how can such major operations be run out of such small spaces? See satellite photos of the actual buildings read more
Welcome to Tazeworld!
Tazeworld | March 25th 2008 by Taze Brown
Welcome to WordPress.com. You have entered Tazeworld: where time is just another word for the life that’s passing you by. Hey everyone this is Taze, the man with the plan to resucitate a Canadian icon: Eaton’s! All we need is for the rema read more
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