Bottecchia fan
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Bikes: 1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo (frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame), 1974 Peugeot UO-8
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For something that never gets dirty I would have to recommend the white vinyl tape on my UO-8. Same stuff I used back in the day. No idea what brand it is though. It's been on there a few years. If it gets dirty a little all-surface spray cleaner does the trick. The Bottecchia Gran Turismo rolls with white cloth tape with ultra blonde dewaxed shellac. It starts off white (just a little off white really) and ends up kind of dirty by the end of a ride from sweat and me wiping my nose on my hand/glove (eeeuuuuwww
). Spray some Windex on there and scrub it off and voila! it's white again.
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1959 Bottecchia Milano-Sanremo(frame), 1966 Bottecchia Professional (frame), 1971 Bottecchia Professional (frame),
1973 Bottecchia Gran Turismo, 1974 Bottecchia Special, 1977 Bottecchia Special (frame),
1974 Peugeot UO-8, 1988 Panasonic PT-3500, 2002 Bianchi Veloce, 2004 Bianchi Pista