Re: [CR]Re: doing it wrong?

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From: "ternst" <ternst1@cox.net>
To: "Cheung, Doland" <CheungD@bv.com>, "Emanuel Lowi" <lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <ABD079F38D58E54FBCC327A1D1BBD86302DE3F2D@kaci-mail-10.na.bvcorp.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: doing it wrong?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:24:29 -0700
reply-type=original

I'll repeat myself. After less than a year you short attention spanners need to increase your protein intake. Starting at bar end, wrap to the outside from each side up to the levers, because your hands roll out when you're in the drops and this keeps the tape tightening effect. At the levers either stop and secure, or cross over to reverse direction and keep going from front of bike to back and keep going as high as you wish to the center and secure. If you stop and restart under the hoods, provided you have them, then secure your starting end and again wrap from from the front to the back to wind up the tape tightness because your hands roll from the top down towards you. GET IT? Put your hands on the bar and you see what I refer to. Basic, simple, easy to master. Try to get it straight before you get Alzheimer's. And please quit hyperventilating about nameplates and images. They are what they were in the time made. Society changes. It's part of history. Live and muse about it and realize how far we can still.go from how far
we've come.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheung, Doland"
To: Emanuel Lowi
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:59 PM
Subject: RE: [CR]Re: doing it wrong?



>I was taught early on to wrap from the ends to the top,
> counter-clockwise when looking at the end of the bar. I was told this
> was to prevent catching the edge of the tape, which I imagine would
> cause curling and unraveling.
>
> Using this method, I've never had any problems as long as I kept the
> tape stretched while wrapping. This is with cork (my fave), foam,
> vinyl, cloth and plastic, bot with and without sticky tape.
>
> Doland Cheung
> SoCal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Emanuel
> Lowi
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:43 PM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Re: doing it wrong?
>
> Could somebody please start a discussion of whether one turns the tape
> clockwise or counterclockwise when wrapping handlebars, and whether
> either direction works better on the upper part of the bars vs. the
> lower?
>
> Oop, I think I just started that discussion. Any takers?
>
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal, Quebec
> (where we are all relieved that bike is called a Sauvage Lejeune NOT
> Lejeune Sauvage, which would be truly racist!)
>
>
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