Wrapping bars - tips plz

I have some new bars winging their way to me from Teh Interweb and some cork bar wrap (nothing fancy)
having never wrapped bars before i have no idea how to do it.
Can some one impart some tips on how to do it?
Sadly i run brakes, so i have to negotiate some obsticals.

1) start at the bottom
2) the tape will come with some short bits to use near the brakes - apply these first
3) wrap the tape from the inside of the bars to the outside (so the natural rotation of your hands on the bars tightens the tape, instead of unravelling it)
4) stretch the tape a bit as you wrap, but not too much
5) have about 1/3 of the tape overlap itself as you go
6) try to keep it all nice and even, especially on the bendy bits of the bars.

easy!

Check in Urban Velo Issue 2. Nice explanations with pics.

http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=71

Sadly i run brakes

Tragic.

Video on how to wrap handlebars

im going to assume your talking about wrapping drop bars. why do people wrap thier bars from the bottom? doesnt this make finishing the bars by the steam sleave a little messy?

ive always wraped mine from the stem sleave to the ends of the drops. its always worked for me and ive never used leccy tape to hold the bar wrap like some people do.

im going to assume your talking about wrapping drop bars. why do people wrap thier bars from the bottom? .

because it's the correct way to do it.

Search on you tube.

im going to assume your talking about wrapping drop bars. why do people wrap thier bars from the bottom?

ive always wraped mine from the stem sleave to the ends of the drops.

Starting from the top is traditional and my preferred method.

But lots of newer tape don't have thin edges which lay flat and flush.

So when your hands slide down the bars the edges start to roll.

get someone else to do it....bike mechanics love to do it!!!!

especially white bartape

especially white bartape

I like doing it, just get the latex gloves on.

it's about the only clean job you can do on a bike!

Wow, people on her actually know how the wrap bars?

The number of wank bare-bars on bikes I've seen on here must have me mistaken.

Wrap from the bottom then get some double-sided tape and use on the very end (bar top) to stop that pesky inside corner coming up.

Well taped bars really finish a bike off IMO

Don't use the crap logo'ed to hell finishing tape they provide you, some electrical tape looks much better and well hold much better too as you can get it quite taught and choose where you want it to finish.

Innit. That stuff is shit and about never long enough

im going to assume your talking about wrapping drop bars. why do people wrap thier bars from the bottom? doesnt this make finishing the bars by the steam sleave a little messy?

ive always wraped mine from the stem sleave to the ends of the drops. its always worked for me and ive never used leccy tape to hold the bar wrap like some people do.

i wrap from the bottom because if i fuck up and run out of tape too soon i would rather fail to reach the stem than fail to reach the ends of the bars.

thats never really been a problem for me, the tape is always long enough. if you do it from the sleave you can wrap the tape over itself so you dount have the use any tape.

its really anal and makes no diffrence though really.

depends how much overlap you use when wrapping. i like to wrap pretty thick so occasionally i fuck it up.

but yeah, each to their own. wrapping bars isn't rocket surgery.

I like to rap when I wrap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnUh5LlrPZ4

Starting from the top is traditional and my preferred method.

But lots of newer tape don't have thin edges which lay flat and flush.

So when your hands slide down the bars the edges start to roll.

That's the way I learned to do it fortyfive years ago. Therein lies the problem. Forty five years ago we used cloth tape or in some cases the plastic sort.
Forty five years... I have never typed that before... I need a nap.

Always top to bottom for me....i hate to see a really nice bike with shit insulation tape at the top. I always put the start of the tape facing forward and tucked just under the bar...once round then pull across to start your way round the bar. If you pull the tape nice and tight as you go it never fucks up the edges...and being somebody who constantly changes components and setups etc i've wrapped a lot of bars..:)
And something people always seem to forget is that whether you start at the top OR the bottom, you will ALWAYS have one section of the bar where the tape edge is facing against your hand.

Top to bottom is far neater IMO

also....cheap vinyl tape always has, and always will be my favourite kind too :)

also....cheap vinyl tape always has, and always will be my favourite kind too :)

Perforated leather, cloth, or sew up elk hide for me. But the crazy plastic colors brings back fond memories. I can still smell it when I think of it. I remember it being on the Schwinn Varsity in closely matched colors. Damn that was a heavy bike. I swear they built it out of bar stock.

I like doing it, just get the latex gloves on.

it's about the only clean job you can do on a bike!

It never occured to me to use laytex gloves (so obvious too)... wicked. I have some white cloth I have wanted to use forever! ace.