Benotto Question
 

Anyone help me out here. I just go this Benotto on escam(don't have a camera, here's the ebay page)



I get this and everything is good on it, nice pantoed chrome fork, columbus tubing, nice thinned lugs and lugwork, mitered bb, campy dropouts and a repaint by cycle art.

So I got it last night and the decals on it are a cheap ass vinyl like sticker, about walmart quality and stuck on over the clear and the columbus tubing sticker is under the clear on the TOP TUBE, not on the seatube where usually the 531 or columbus tubing stickers usually are.

Do any of the Benotto owners have these cheapass stickers on their Benotto frames. If Cycle Art did a complete repaint, putting the Columbus sticker on the top tube and just adding vinyl type stickers over the clear just doesn't seem like a very good job.

Anyone else ever see this?? I have never purchased a frame before with cheap sticker decals before.

I know in the Italian food chain, Benotto's are nowwhere near Cinelli, DeRosa,Pinarello, etc. quality, are the Benotto's decent quality frames?

I was going to build this up as a fixed daily rider anyway, so I guess I will just peel the damn stickers off anyway..or I might just split the fork and frame up and sell..

That is how the later benotto decals came

thanks man, that explains it....I was just going through the benotto pic on fgg and all ofr them had no decals, so they were probably just the sticker type and were either taken off or worn off....

I though maybe cycle art just tried to cut corners..thanks

Cycle Art does not generally "cut corners", but they do have various paint quality levels or categories (1, 2, 3, etc). They also charge to put decals on, and then clear coat over them. So someone wanting to go cheap could have the paint job done, then apply the decals themselves over the clearcoat. You may be able to contact Cycle Art (Jim Cunningham) with photos of the bike and they could tell you what the situation was with this particular bike.

that is probably what happened, the paint is pretty nice but the stickers were put on pretty bad, air bubbles and crooked.

I think I am going to just take them off, the paint on the the frame is a really nice job and no marks except for the rear dropouts, but the chromed fork is the winner, perfect, no rust and original blue in the pantographed bits..I have a set of campy lambda rims that I polished up and I think the combo will look pretty good

Benotto Decals
 

Sounds like a winner idea to me! Or you could get replacement replacement decals from someone such as mswantak here on the forums and give it another try.