https://blog.silca.cc/...71-ba51-45f80f25c729
https://silca.cc/...roducts/nastro-fiore
https://silca.cc/...oducts/nastro-piloti
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Let me know when Benotto is back in business.
Made of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). Same stuff as Adidas Boost. Should be pretty great.
I just ordered the Nastro Piloti!
Made me think that some great aero pads could be made from taking old pair of Adidas Boosts, cutting out the pad shapes, and then gluing them to the mounts. Would probably feel amazing. TPU is simply incredible stuff.
I’m intrigued but the colored logo on the tape looks terrible - impossible to make it look symmetrical on the bars - that would bug the sh*t out of me. Can’t they just do an all black?
Yes, we make both, the PILOTI is only solid colors and the FIORE comes only with contrasting print…
https://silca.cc/collections/bar-tape-1/products/nastro-piloti
How thick/heavy is it?
Right but the thicknesses are different between the two: the Fiore being thicker = more appealing.
Right but the thicknesses are different between the two: the Fiore being thicker = more appealing.
Wrap some inner tube onto the bars before adding the final bar tape?
Great opportunity to ask what is more appealing about thicker tape to you? When we started this, the conventional wisdom was that we had to do 3.2mm tape because of the ‘comfort’ and subsequent testing showed that it really wasn’t more comfortable during riding as most tapes squish down under the weight of your hand and then don’t rebound sufficiently to provide much of any cushioning… so to the test machine the dynamic behavior of 2mm and 3.2mm are roughly the same even though the 3.2 gives you that super cush feeling when you first grab it.
Nobody in our testing pointed to girth of the bars as a desired outcome of thicker tapes, though I would imagine that if you had big hands this would be a point of preference…
We did have athletes and testers who wouldn’t wrap the wings of their bars with tape for aero reasons, so seems like thinner tape is preferred for aero…
Honestly, I’ve been riding with the 1.85 on one side and the 2.5 on the other for 4 months and can’t really tell a difference. My hypothesis is that with the high rebound foams the dynamic differences relative to thickness are much harder to discern as the rebound rate is relative to frequency more than tape thickness.
Either way, would be interested to hear and understand preferences here. We approached this category completely from the outside and as usually happens when you do that we sort of blew a lot of the conventional wisdom out of the water… of course we also then did add a thicker version of the tape as having just one thin model was probably too much for the market to bear at one time!!
Josh
But most importantly, does it poke inside the bar well to create a neat finish?
Yes, we spent ~20x more money on the custom butterfly piece and the expanding aluminum end plugs because I’m super uptight about bar wrapping!
It will wrap as perfectly as you are willing to wrap it.
J
I think that’s the interesting point of your product: same cushy feeling, less fatigue with thinner tape. As I read the specs, the fiore is thicker - for longer riding and the piloti for “racing†(thinner).
More comfort and shock absorption with less tape sounds ideal. My only gripe is aesthetics:-)
I’ve always gone as thin as possible and not wrapped the flat/aero part of the tops. On the rare occasion, I’ve snapped the tape while wrapping it as tight as possible.
Also I’m okay buying $10 bar tape so I’m probably not your target market anyway.
Seems pretty similar to supacaz. Honestly I’m surprised it doesn’t cost more. If not the new silca, who will be the first to push bar tape into the $60 range?
Yes, we make both, the PILOTI is only solid colors and the FIORE comes only with contrasting print…
https://silca.cc/...oducts/nastro-piloti
Looks like a cool and well designed bar tape, I would love to try it.
I would need the Fiore, but any chance that the Fiore will ever come in just solid colors? Black or white even would be fine. Because, with any color, that contrasting logo would not work at all for me.
Greg @ dsw
Pathlete, noted and I hear you 
OhioRoadie, totally get you as well, I get that this is expensive, just as not everybody is into 4% Vaporfly not everybody will be in for NASTRO. Honestly, we were shocked at the price points some of the stuff on the market is going for, there are tapes at our price point that have neither the level of foam, nor the butterfly, both huge cost drivers and yet are selling at same or higher. Unfortunately this is a category that has historically been driven far more by brand and distribution horsepower than by product… we hope to change that 
Josh
Everyone has their own personal taste, but I think the logo on the thicker tape looks like something that would be on a little girls bike. Will you be producing more than just white, black, & red tape?
Drool.
The Fiore looks a lot like Supacaz (the pattern and graphics). I like the way Piloti looks, and I’ve always been a fan of thinner tape. If I needed new bar tape, I’d grab some.