Benotto tape thread
07-21-12 | 04:41 AM
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Original in as is condition when I purchased thos one.
07-21-12 | 08:59 AM
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07-21-12 | 03:48 PM
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I've only used it once in recent memory. Looks pretty flashy, but I definitely prefer more cushion between my palms and the bars than Benotto provides me, personally.
07-21-12 | 04:01 PM
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07-25-12 | 07:46 PM
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I saw it on nearly every high level bike in the late 70's, early 80's. It was new tech synthetic to us, but it was the esthetic of the times.
Our cotton became old fashioned. But it all comes full circle. I sold my stash of it a few months ago for a pittance. I've never used it, but that doesn't mean I don't think it's cool. Mexican cello tape is still more C&V to me than the new wonder wraps.
Our cotton became old fashioned. But it all comes full circle. I sold my stash of it a few months ago for a pittance. I've never used it, but that doesn't mean I don't think it's cool. Mexican cello tape is still more C&V to me than the new wonder wraps.
Now your old stash is sitting in a box in my house and I have high hopes that it does not become 'old stash' sitting in an box.
07-26-12 | 07:45 AM
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Looks good on the right bike--80s vintage Italian for example.
I recently put yellow on my purple '73 Mercian Pro. Wrong vintage, wrong style, looks terrible, and it feels like crap. I'll switch back to cotton when I get the time.
I recently put yellow on my purple '73 Mercian Pro. Wrong vintage, wrong style, looks terrible, and it feels like crap. I'll switch back to cotton when I get the time.
07-26-12 | 11:10 AM
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07-26-12 | 03:37 PM
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Looks and feels right on my 1935 Claud butler Super Velo rebuilt with many 1950's parts! (The bell is from 1930 though, so that averages the years back about right again!!!
08-14-12 | 03:41 PM
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As someone else pointed out, it can be damn slippery. My Masi came with the original bars wrapped in yellow Benotto. I went with it has long as I could, but could no longer tolerate the angle of the bars and the correspondingly funky positioning of the brake levers once I corrected the bars, so I dumped the slippery stuff for yellow Newbaum's with a "cushion" underneath made from a bit of inner tube.
