If you have brake levers that can be removed leaving the clamp on, removing them prior to taping is simple and neat. Most people prefer to wrap from the ends up. I do it the other way, I like the feel better. I use black Tressostar and by the time the edges begin rolling over the tape is sun bleached an ugly uneven grey anyway.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
On 5/25/06, devotion finesse <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> So now I am about to REALLY reveal myself as a "newbie"...Please bear wit
h
> 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. I
t
> 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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