Re: [CR]Cloth tape

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:25:17 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Cloth tape
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 11/6/2001 4:03:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, bil4@mindspring.com writes:


> Also, my favorite mountain bike/city bike grips is old eighties road bar
> foam with shellacked cotton bar tape over the top.
>

I was about to ask what makes a good underlayment for cloth tape. The foam is a bit too much for my taste. Two layers of cloth not enough. I feel like Goldilocks(this ones too soft, this ones too hard, I want one just right!) Thinking of something denser and with a smaller finished diameter so as not to be obvious. Maybe inner tube? Tape meant for ball bats or racquets etc.? Anything better to use?

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA