Re: [CR] Bar taping

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

From: "ternst" <ternst1@cox.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Kim Carney <kjcarney@ucdavis.edu>
References: <200901152221.n0FMLtlJ018745@xylocopa.ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:52:08 -0800
Subject: Re: [CR] Bar taping


Kim: You are good on the drops. However, as you round the bend and go around the brake levers on your road bike then you reverse and come over the top to the back from the front and keep winding. If you sit on your bike and put your hands in the drops, your palms slide to the outside, so it's wrapped that way to keep the tension snug as it were. When you are on top of the bar, your hands twist toward you so you wrap from front to back to maintain the tension by direction of wrap. This is if you wrap from bottom to top. If you wrap the other way you're reversing the wrap direction but still doing the same circular wrap around the bar. That doesn't change as your hand twist is constant and wrapping this way helps keep the tape snug.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA


----- Original Message -----
From: Kim Carney
To: ternst
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:21 PM
Subject: RE: [CR] Bar taping



>
> I'll take a shot. Left side counter clockwise. Right side clockwise.
> Back
> to front.
>
> Kim Carney
> Davis, CA USA
>
>> Now that you all have decided how to grab your bars and wrap, which
>> direction is best?
>> Inside to out or outside to in?
>> Front to back or back to front?
>> Ted Ernst
>> Palos Verdes Estates
>> CA USA