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Location: Marin County, California, USA
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Bikes: 1953 Schwinn Green Phantom, 1957 Schwinn Corvette, 1949 Whizzer, 1959 Girardengo, 1980 Colnago USSR Olympic TT bike, 1982 Colnago Nuovo Mexico, 1994 Colnago Decor, 1996 Colnago Decor, 2002 Colnago Carbonissimo TT, 1982 Bottecchia, 2007 Cervelo, etc.
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Thanks to everyone in this thread! I haven't checked in for a few days and was beginning to wonder if I was being obsessive about the bar wrap on my '59 Girardengo, which is finished except for the wrap. I have some honey Brooks leather, but also just got in some gorgeous embossed nachurl linen.
Now I feel normally neurotic, again. Back to my old self--still sitting on the fence...
I used red Newbaums on my '82 Bottecchia, and it is the icing on the cake. Newer bikes of mine get the newer foam tape. But to me nothing looks more gorgeous than a vintage Hetchins with well-worn-in Brooks saddle and patinaed shellacked tape!
Last edited by Senhor Colnago; 08-16-13 at 07:12 PM.