Bar wrap porn

You're right, esp as drops usually involve navigating shifters...

This is not perfect, but here's a top down of the Forts' Delta Force bars wrapped in Fizik Microtex.

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nice white leather

and with custom stitch

^^looks like one of those international parcel edges

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/khunkay/khunkay1005/khunkay100500005/6994406-red-blue-edge-of-white-envelope.jpg

You are on form with this, have you been saving up for this moment?

+1 This is really nice. What model are the levers?

custom all the way.

Reckon wrapping bars is an art form and a very pleasing task to do.

+1 This is really nice. What model are the levers?

Shimano 105 SLR.

Right enough identifying Shimano 105 parts and more bar tape chat. I don't really like the leather stitched bondage look, or cotton tape that has had the shellac treatment. I like the bare cotton look best, that three-way harlequin is brilliant, but there's no way I'm even going to bother to try it.

My bars (dirty white cotton tape) look atrocious. I did it at the end of a long long day in the workshop as a 'fuck it this will get me home' job, and I haven't been bothered enough to improve it since.

I appreciate others' efforts, but I don't really care about my own.

shame about the hunk of rubbery guff.

Loads of stringy wank in this thread.

Bars should look like this

Although I've done so 'orrible nonfunctional things myself:

My favourite is gimp tape. Nothing can compare to that nice spongy and sticky feel.

More readers' wives. Not often Kris shows good taste, but I've used the same Benotto myself.