These soft rubber hood covers were a product of the color-hungry early 1980s. Remember spumanti paintjobs, and Pepto-Bismal Pink racing bikes?
My shop sold hundreds of them, and they were inexpensive enough that people would install a fresh pair or diffrerent colors several times a year
A'me is still around, but I've read that the molds for their Modolo/Campagnolo/DiaCompe racing hoods were scrapped.
Aldo Ross
(hood covers to match your Benotto tape?)
Monroe, Ohio
> Those are probably red "Modolo Style" hoods made by Ame which made many
> types of aftermarket hoods in different colors. They only apeear to be
> available now in off colors like hot pink. I find them by checking old
type
> bike stores with dusty stock going back into the 70s. They are not too
hard
> to find and the rubber seems to hold up better than the gum types in
storage.
>
> I often wonder what happened to this company and their all important
molds.
> Unfortunately the packaging does not indicate anything about what Ame was.
> I think they were concerned about copying designs.
>
> Joe