Please remember when one says/does " good enough" several times, one ends up with mediocrity very quickly. Ted Ernst Palos Verdes Estates CA USA ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Meddaugh To: ternst ; jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net ; M-gineering Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [CR] Securing Bar Tape
IIRC Eddy wrapped from top to bottom. If it's good enough for Eddy it's good enough for me...
Eric Meddaugh San Carlos, CA USA
------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- From: ternst <ternst1@cox.net> To: jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net; M-gineering <info@m-gineering.nl> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:39:16 AM Subject: Re: [CR] Securing Bar Tape
Only amateurs wrap tape from top to bottom. The Italians probably wouldn't even let you start the race with tape wrapped from "T" to "B". Style Man would roll his eyes in a most uncomplimentary way. Ted Ernst Palos Verdes Estates CA USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> To: "M-gineering" <info@m-gineering.nl> Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:47 AM Subject: Re: [CR] Securing Bar Tape
>I first started wrapping top to bottom, i.e. from stem to barend, I think >because that was the way, top to bottom, we used to wrap the old leather >grips on tennis racquets when I was a varsity tennis player in high school. >That worked OK until cork tape became prominent. I found it impossible to >stretch cork tape tight enough to keep the edge from rolling up. If I >tried to stretch it that tight, it often tore. So I went to wrapping
>bottom to top. Now I became dissatisfied with cork tape maybe 10
years ago
>and since then have used mostly Benotto or Hunt-Wilde plastic tape.
This
>stuff is thin enough you can wrap it either way, but I have continued
to
>wrap bottom to top, then finish off with plastic tape at the top,
which
>comes in assorted color which can usually complement the bar tape ot
the
>frame color. One trick I use with plastic tape is to coat the bars
with
>Elmers Glue and let it dry to just tacky before beginning to rwrap.
This
>helps prevent
> the tape shifting, especially on the bends. Works best if you apply
the
> glue only to the side you will then immediately wrap. I kind of
adapted
> this thrick from one Jack Moran of City Cycles in Little Rock, AR
used to
> use In The Day. When wrapping cork tape, he would apply a drop of
super
> glue to the bars every couple of turns to prevent the tape shifting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA
>
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 1/15/09, M-gineering <info@m-gineering.nl> wrote:
>
>> From: M-gineering <info@m-gineering.nl>
>> Subject: Re: [CR] Securing Bar Tape
>> To:
>> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 2:33 AM
>> Kurt Sperry wrote:
>> >
>> > I prefer the feel of tape wrapped top down, it gives a
>> bit of "bite"
>> > that way. By the time the top edges start to curl,
>> the tape's
>> > inevitably sun faded and tatty looking anyway. I
>> suspect people who
>> > like to run their bars well below seat level and thus
>> are putting more
>> > weight on their hands may be the ones who have
>> problems with top down
>> > wrapping.
>> >
>>
>>
>> I'd say it depends on whether the glue is applied
>> across the full width
>> of the tape or not. EG it won't work with cork where
>> the edges are not
>> glued, but is ok with cloth tape.
>>
>>
>> BTW i have the distinct impression that current tressostar
>> tape is much
>> thinner than the stuff of the 70-s. Anyone know for sure or
>> is my memory
>> playing up?
>> --
>> mvg
>>
>> Marten Gerritsen
>> Kiel Windeweer
>> Netherlands
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