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it's been an incredibly hungover, windy, biblical rain-drenched day here so what better way to escape an alcohol sponsored dread feeling of pain and self-loathing pass your time than watching the cycling and attempting to wrap one's handlebars in a pretty pattern?
after much head scratching and false starts I gave up trying to work the harlequin around clamp on levers a la old skool and will for now be opting for tt aero ones as a result. it's neater, innit and I am not keeping this period correct anyway.
side one... not perfect but fucking hell, working from end of bar backwards i had to re-do it so many times because of the bend in the bar fucking everything up. only advice i can give in doing this is to make sure the first few wraps are absolutely perfect, if not it won't get better. i think i should get bonus points as well as courtesy of last night's belgian beers and whisky today I feel like a pig has shat in my head.
side 2 done, with nice ITM stem added... i had the choice of this or a cinelli 1A but I think it looks good on the build because of the taper from bar to head tube and doesn't have too severe a drop on it. Forgive the elecrtical tape... I don't trust just having a fold over so tagged it down with a small spot of glue then taped it to keep it in place whilst drying.
so, not perfect and may get re-done when I feel more pro-active but still looks ok for a first attempt. will need to find some tt levers and will be spending an hour later servicing the headset and BB I think.
Have also purchased some Concorde panto'd chrome forks which will be getting swapped out with the plain crowned ones on here, which will in turn be getting put on the other Concorde frame I'm selling as its are a bit ratty and 700c which is probably incorrect...
Awesome to have the catalogue this was originally in so thanks again FLRN HSSL, will try and get a screen grab up in this thread soon.