Re: [CR] Securing Bar Tape

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

From: "Joel Uden" <general_piffle@hotmail.com>
To: <johnb@oxford.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:30:15 +0000
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Subject: Re: [CR] Securing Bar Tape


Very similar to John, I use cloth bar tape to finish and just wrap it nic e and tight before cutting it under the bars where my thumb won't rub and s eal it with a smear of Araldite. This seems to last forever and has to be c ut with nail-scissors should it need to be removed for any reason.

Joel Uden London UK
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:56:43 -0500
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> From: johnb@oxford.net
> Subject: Re: [CR] Securing Bar Tape
>
> That's a very interesting idea and I can't see why it wouldn't work
> perfectly. The only problem I see is finding the right size heat shrink
> tubing and remembering to slide it up over the bar before you begin. You' d
> also have to completely remove the levers.
>
> What I do is secure the ends of the bar tape with superglue before wrappi ng
> with the end tape provided (or electrical tape if I'm de-doing the job.)
>
> At 12:32 PM 13/01/2009 -0600, John Hurley wrote:
> >I use electrical tape to finish off when wrapping handlebars, and it
> >usually doesn't work too well. If I wrap it tight, it comes unstuck
> >over time as the tape contracts; if I don't wrap it tight, it looks
> >sloppy. Somewhere I read you should wrap tightly at first, and then
> >finish it with no tension. It occurred to me today, Why not try a sho rt
> >piece of heat-shrink tubing? Just slip it on and slide up to the stem ,
> >out of the way, then slide it back over the end of the wrap and apply
> >heat. Has anyone tried this?
> >
> >John Hurley
> >Late to the dance again in
> >Austin, Texas, USA
>
>
> John Betmanis
> Woodstock, Ontario
> Canada