Re: [CR] shellac a "cork" handlebar tape?

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:56:31 +0100 From: "Martin Appel" <martin@camelot.de> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Subject: [CR]shellac a "cork" handlebar tape?

shellacing a cloth handlebar tape is a nice way to give your bike a classic look.

Sad thing is that cloth handlebar tape in colors other than black seems to have vanished from the market; Rivendell is out of stock...

so i thought of alternatives. Cinelli sells a modern "cork" padded handlebar tape in color "nature" (see http://www.bike24.net/p1319.html, bottom left sample), but it is just a little bit to light in color to match with a Broks saddle.

i wonder i it might be possible to put shellac on one o those tapes? anybody ever tried it?

thanks or any hints,

Martin Appel Munich, Germany

I have all of the colors of cloth tape in stock, as do others, I imagine. I sell a lot of white cloth to folks that are going to shellac it. Done properly, one can match a Honey Brooks saddle pretty well, I'm told....

Greg Parker
Dexter, Michigan
http://www.bicycleclassics.com