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Need to finish late 50s Ephgrave, almost there, need to mount appropriate brake levers, new chain and play with DT shifters - currently sporting Campagnolo levers with Huret/Simplex screw on bolts, due to braze on thread not accepting Italian part. Threads are different pitch? Fitted tubs on the rims, first time ever 🤗, using tape rather than cement, not planning to race it so I think I'll be OK.
Needed a nice stem, so 'borrowed' it from yesterday's purchase (lovely mid 50s Norman Pile mixte), naughty, but will replace with something of the same era when I get around it.
It is almost completely black, including saddle - with shiny silvery bits of course - so was thinking brown bar tape, cotton over something that can save my hands from getting numb, or perhaps Brooks leather one, which will aged nicely I think. Is there such a thing to wrap a cotton tape over something else, would it look and perform badly?