[CR]Applying handlebar tape

(Example: Racing)

From: "Peter Brown" <peterg.brown@ntlworld.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:47:40 -0000
Subject: [CR]Applying handlebar tape

> On Nov 19, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Steven Willis wrote:
>
>> I have just covered a set of handle bars on a freshly built up older
>> bike of mine a Steven Calvert with old Campagnolo NR parts and the last
>> thing to do was the bar tape with the old stand by Velox cloth tape.
>> then all these memories came back. This stinks!

The favourite trick of some of the older British riders was to use an old inner tube as a sort of underlay to the tape, which had just enough give in it to allow the seams to lay flat, and made the tape more comfortable in use.

Peter Brown. Lincolnshire. England