Re brake levers: I always mark the location of the band on the bar, remove the lever, and wrap the bar with just the band on. Then you can do a tight wrap around the band and if you're careful, you don't have to do the figure 8 thing, or at worst just use a little snip to cover the bar in one spot. Wrapping around the brake lever can use a lot of extra tape, which you don't have with Tressostar.
Drew Ellison Everett, Washington USA
On Jul 16, 2008, at 7:04 AM, dima wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am going to wrap the bars on a bike with some Tressostar tape,
> problem is that I've never done that using cloth tape before, and the
> tape being somewhat rare, I'd hate to botch up the job, so would
> appreciate any cloth tape-specific tips/tricks/instructions. In
> particular, I'd like to have an idea how long (or short) a roll of
> Tressostar tape usually is for regular size bars - i.e. should I try
> to minimize the overlap or not. Also, how do you cover the brake
> clamps (what's usually done using the specially provided piece of cork
> tape) - in the usual way (i.e. by using a piece of cloth tape) or
> differently. Etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Dmitry Yaitskov,
> Toronto, Canada.