Re: [CR]Now:Plastic tape Was:Any FAT SEWUPS still made?

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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:09:59 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Now:Plastic tape Was:Any FAT SEWUPS still made?
To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Viva Plastilac.

And that great British slightly ribbed stuff. And I like the thick Benotto too. I especially like plastic tape that is designed not to be slippery.

Just think about the first guy who did a bar change in 20 minutes instead of 2 hours work and a day to dry.

I need to cut apart some shellaced bars and the waste of effort about makes me cry.

Joe
GNNJ


----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Schmidt
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: [CR]Now:Plastic tape Was:Any FAT SEWUPS still made?



> Looking at Aldo's Legnano...
>
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/images/Events/Aldo_m2L.jpg
>
> ...it reminded me that shellacked cotton tape from the 30s, 40s, 50s
> looks just like plastic handle bar tape from the 1950s!
>
> I know that probably everyone on the list would probably say that the
> only appropriate place for plastic tape would be on a "department store bike."
>
> But how about traveling back to the late 1940s when all things plastic
> were revolutionary! I've always looked upon plastic tape as being a
> poor substitute for cotton tape but maybe it was looked upon, back in
> the day, as a superior way to tape bars compared to shellacked cotton tape?
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> SoPas, SoCal