Subject: Re: [CR]Cork Bar Ends Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:09:36 -0700 From: "Meyer Lenore" <lenoremeyer@hotmail.com> To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
I'm talking about barends not barplugs!
M
>From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
>To: Meyer Lenore <lenoremeyer@hotmail.com>
>CC: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Cork Bar Ends
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:35:54 -0800
>
>Meyer Lenore wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to know when the era of cork barends came to a close. (1930's,
> > 1940's?)Were they manufactured by a supplier or were they home brewed by
>the
> > owners of bikes?
>
>I'd say mid-1950s would be the end of the did-it-myself cork barplugs.
>
>I saw Fausto Coppi's World Championship winning bike two different times
>(won the Lugano, Switzerland Worlds Pro race in 1953) and they were the
>did-it-myself style plugs. The bike had its original handlebar tape on
>the bars. Corks pushed into the ends of the bar with three strips of
>cloth handlebar tape across the flat ends of the corks. Handlebar tape
>then wrapped over the three strips where they overlapped the bar. Very
>clean looking.
>
>Chuck Schmidt
>South Pasadena, Southern California