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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
It is a Cinelli stem and bar, but I am looking for a 3ttt Superleggera bar and 3ttt stem, to shave some weight.

The tape looks nice but is pretty hard. I guess I have soft girly hands compared to the real men who raced bikes in the 1970s.
I had Benotto tape for a few years. You get used to it after a while. While I never liked them but they do last for some time compared to cloth back then which I like a lot. I did it because everyone had them, and they get a little slippery when wet. I don't care what people say, but I like Cineli's cork tape. Today's grippy plastic/vinyl type tape is too sticky and gross feeling for me. It feels like sweat on plastic that made it feel grippy and sticky.

I ran Superleggera bars (Gimondi, Track style) and stem for years. One of my favorite, better then Cinelli, IMO of course.
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