Wrapping drop bars with no brake hoods

I feel pretty daft asking this but I've searched the forum (and google...) and can't find anything with regards to the fact that when wrapping drop bars the general advice is that there is a change in direction of the tape in the drops to across the top, as shown in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MzIiv7pewE

Problem is, when you don't have any brake hoods to cover up your ugly looking wrap around and over, how do you approach it?

Or does it, in reality, make fuck all difference and I should just wrap the whole bar in the same direction i.e. towards the bike?

Advice very much appreciated!

CJ

fuck all difference

This.

What you could do is loosen the brake lever and pass the tape under it.

Sorry, to clarify there are no brakes whatsoever. It's not just a case of a lever rather than a hood.

I think I'm just going to go for one wrap all in the same direction tbh, given what M_V said.

Cheers lads.

In that case it's even easier, just wrap the tape round the bars till you get to the top.

I think you've missed my point, the direction the wrap is supposed to go is apparently (according to the experts) different in the drops than it is across the top due to the direction in which your hands apply pressure. I was wondering how I could change the direction of the wrap without it looking scruffy and obvious, given there's no hoods to hide the untidiness under.

That's a new one on me. I've always just wrapped the bars in one direction from bottom to top with or without brake levers.

It always goes bottom to top but at the levers the side of the tape which is exposed changes sides. So as your hands apply pressure forwards, it doesn't pull up the edges of the tape. And vice versa in the drops

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