Bar wrap porn

It's wrapped from the top down.

Wrong.

seam-less start and 2-colour harlequin nailed (with strips of paper, some highlighter pens and a broom handle)

#slightlybored

My god I really do need to get you those bars ASAP !

It's wrapped from the top down.

Wrong.

Wow. This this place has quickly turned into the fascist realm of the bike porn thread.

/unsubscribes

Affter looking at this thread for 20 mins [and loving it]. I have just realised that I have become a TOTAL bike nerd. thank you LFGSS xx.

Well, it balances out the 'sans bar tape' species out there.

seam-less start and 2-colour harlequin nailed (with strips of paper, some highlighter pens and a broom handle)

#slightlybored

Your highlighter seems to be running out.

Ok I'm going to go for it. Going to get some red white and blue tape and try a triple harlequin on drops plus hoods. Straight in at the deep end, no problems.

Does one roll of tape typically do one side of a pair of drops, so you typically need 2 rolls?

(reader's wife)

It's all well and good practicing on a broom, but you'll want to attempt a bar before going for broke. It's the curvature of a drop bar that's going to cause problems. The hardest bar to wrap neatly is a drop bar with no levers and a classic drop imo. It's going to be the continuity of the section sizes that will be toughest part I reckon. Loving that harlequin pattern though, going to have to give it a try! + another when I mess it up...

Loving this thread too!

Why not get a couple of rolls of hockey tape to practise with? (you can haz different colours..) It's pretty sticky stuff but could be good for experimenting...

ftfy.

It's wrapped from the top down.

Wrong.

No, this was the way. Educumenate yourselves!
You'd start from the top and go all the way to the end.
Then you'd stick on the bar ends and heat them up with a lighter.

Lovely. Nicer than my Benotto Cello

http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/BT3TTT/3ttt_bar_tape

Here's the opposite way - bottom up.

Well wrapped, but incorrectly finished.

Personally I don't like tape wrapped all the way. For porn I think it should be the furthest away from the stem that is sensible.

Also as for cloth tape for practicing. Ribble is cheap, or just go to condor.

I like using black cloth to finish bar tape.

As impressive as the harlequin stuff is, I'd take finishing touches like that ^ any day. I've tired it a couple of times but never got it to work.

I like to look at those things, but this is as far as it goes. There's a difference between restoration and cycling.

How'd you mean?

Using benito tape full stop, or just too much itd without it being functional?

It's about comfort and functionality.

I understand when you want a period correct bike (I had them myself), but sticking silly "retro" bits where they're not needed to suffer later is silly. Look at Ed - vintage frame with contemporary components work a charm if you're actually using it to cycle more than 5 miles.
I know I will not go back to a square taper, quill stem, dowtube shifter etc.

Ok, maybe if I get a lovely 80-90s track frame I'll build it the way it supposed to be, but not a road bike.

Besides, the more time I spend on custom, bespoke, artisan stuff, the more I want to keep it on the wall and caress with wet wipes.

Then you'd stick on the bar ends and heat them up with a lighter.

I know this. It was the only bar tape I could find at the only non-Schwinn cycle shop I knew of. I was also quite clumsy and, seeing as the tape had the tear resistance of a moist tissue, I replaced it frequently.

It has been years since I thought of those bar ends.

Those were made from some ancient plastic. That sort you'd use for kids toys and bathroom gadgets in communist Poland.

This wasn't addressed at you, Chris, by the way. It was plural, but in kinda general way.

Ok I'm going to go for it. Going to get some red white and blue tape and try a triple harlequin on drops plus hoods. Straight in at the deep end, no problems.

Does one roll of tape typically do one side of a pair of drops, so you typically need 2 rolls?

repped for the size of your balls.

and I'd say yes.

I did this on my cross bike last year, gave me something pretty to look at when I'd been lapped for the nth time.

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