hi guys , i await the answers to Matthew with great interest and anticipation.... despite having good pair of hands and as we say in Ulster 'a straight eye in my head' and having wrapped maybe 200 pair of bars in cloth , padded plastic and cork tapes i cannot get a consistent wrap which is even all the way.... like the pro team mechanics seem to achieve, i always start at the ends of the bars and wrap each side so that the pattern is opposite... if you know what i am getting at. and how in blazes do you get those sticky tape finishers to neatly stay put the wrinkles are so bad... i have tried heat etc but have resorted to cloth tape at the stem ends as a finisher..
willie carton from a chilly very unspring/summer COLERAINE n. ireland
devotion finesse <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com> wrote: So now I am about to REALLY reveal myself as a "newbie"...Please bear with me. I am now in the process of assembling the 74 Raleigh International that I have been gathering parts for (with much appreciated help from CR listmembers!) and this, being my very first road bike, has brought me to an obstacle: I have never applied tape to a set of road drops. Sure, I have put a little Tressoplast cloth tape on the flats of many track bars. No science there. But multiple bends and brake calipers present a couple of new challenges. I am hoping that some of you might have some pointers to help me get moving in the right direction. The International is the bronze/orange/rust color and I intend to use white Velox tape, shellaced to match. I have looked at every road bike locked up on the street. I have scoured the pages of classic rendezvous looking for detail shots of bars, etc. It seems that wrapping methods are consistently inconsistent. Is there a "correct" way to go about doing this? Do I start at the stem and wind my way toward the bar ends? The other way entirely? Do I wind around the bars toward the front or rear? Any tricks for cleanly dealing with brake calipers? Any tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matthew "the twenty-something who is about to take off his training wheels" Bowne Brooklyn, New York
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