Most of the times when I build a bike, I have a pretty good idea of what I want the end result to look like before I even start. Sometimes, however, the bike will tell me what it wants to be instead. This vintage Bottecchia used to be a pretty boring city bike that I wanted to convert to single speed and drop bars. I was actually almost done with the conversion when I realized that the drop bars didn’t really mesh with the ’90s disco esthetic that this bike seemed to demand. So I ended up...
