About a year ago I and a few others had a comprehensive treatise on the list
re: taping .
Get it out of the archive, go now and do likewise.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
> Since 1948 i've been wrapping my handlebars from the stem out. I simply
> wrap out and around, down and back, pop in the cap and I'm done. No extra
> tape up top. Have I been doing it wrong all these years? Have people
> secretly been making fun of me for this? Is there some compelling reason
> to wrap from cap to stem? Just to keep this on topic, I only ask because
> I'm about to retape my 1950 Locomotief Tour de France and the Cinelli
> cork ribbon that I just bought includes the extra plastic finishing tape.
>
> Mark Fulton
> Redwood City, California