Re: [CR]Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

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From: "ternst" <ternst1@cox.net>
To: "classicrendezvous list" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Mark Fulton" <markfulton5@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Have I been doing it wrong all these years?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:08:40 -0700
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About a year ago I and a few others had a comprehensive treatise on the list re: taping . Get it out of the archive, go now and do likewise.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Fulton
To: classicrendezvous list
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:57 PM
Subject: [CR]Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

> Since 1948 i've been wrapping my handlebars from the stem out. I simply
> wrap out and around, down and back, pop in the cap and I'm done. No extra
> tape up top. Have I been doing it wrong all these years? Have people
> secretly been making fun of me for this? Is there some compelling reason
> to wrap from cap to stem? Just to keep this on topic, I only ask because
> I'm about to retape my 1950 Locomotief Tour de France and the Cinelli
> cork ribbon that I just bought includes the extra plastic finishing tape.
>
> Mark Fulton
> Redwood City, California