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Originally Posted by Tandem Rider
These had the nicest and most durable paint of any 80s Italian I ever saw.
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My viner had paint that had the durability of chiclets chewing gum. It was light blue with a subtle pearl effect. A lot of Italian paint jobs back then were pretty, but broke off in chunks. Cromovelato probably was the height of this. It's not uncommon to find those bikes totally stripped of paint. But it's still being offered because it looks so good.
One of the bike painters I follow on youtube (not Italian) recently made a video of spraying chromovelato. Which surprised me, it's like a temporary coating. Maybe it has gotten better over the years.