One of the Saturday ride group was asking me how to install bar tape. Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they start from the center of the bar and work their way to the bottom.
I don't know how this could work since the wraps would be exposed to the pressure of your hands in the wrong direction nd eventually push it loose on the bar.
Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they start from the center of the bar and work their way to the bottom.
On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:54:46 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
wrote:
Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they start from the center of the bar and work their way to the bottom.
"Wrap Vintage Trek Bike Cloth Handlebar Tape Like Factory Original" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hC1Xb1UZro>
At 1:10 in the video, the author mentions that this vintage Trek 412
uses cloth handlebar tape which is wrapped starting from the center
and working his way to the handlebar end.
<https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=70>
At 8:19 in the video, the author re-wraps the handlebar tape, again
starting at the center and working his way to the handlebar end. <https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=499>
Cloth handlebar tape: <https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=cloth%20handlebar%20tape>
Also, note that leather handlebar tape is wrapped in the same manner:
"How To Wrap Bar Tape Perfectly" <https://www.condorcycles.com/en-us/blogs/journal/39615937-how-to-wrap-bar-tape-perfectly>
"Start at the bottom of the bar on the right hand drop and overlap
half the width of the tape from the end. This extra tape is stuffed
into the end of the bar and finished with a bar plug. It protects you
if you fall on the bar and holds the bar plugs in place."
On 9/1/2025 8:06 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:54:46 GMT, cyclintom
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they
start from the center of the bar and work their way to
the bottom.
"Wrap Vintage Trek Bike Cloth Handlebar Tape Like Factory
Original"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hC1Xb1UZro>
At 1:10 in the video, the author mentions that this
vintage Trek 412
uses cloth handlebar tape which is wrapped starting from
the center
and working his way to the handlebar end.
<https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=70>
At 8:19 in the video, the author re-wraps the handlebar
tape, again
starting at the center and working his way to the
handlebar end.
<https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=499>
Cloth handlebar tape:
<https://www.google.com/search?
udm=2&q=cloth%20handlebar%20tape>
Also, note that leather handlebar tape is wrapped in the
same manner:
"How To Wrap Bar Tape Perfectly"
<https://www.condorcycles.com/en-us/blogs/
journal/39615937-how-to-wrap-bar-tape-perfectly>
"Start at the bottom of the bar on the right hand drop and
overlap
half the width of the tape from the end. This extra tape
is stuffed
into the end of the bar and finished with a bar plug. It
protects you
if you fall on the bar and holds the bar plugs in place."
Ass backwards, both.
Cotton tape wraps bottom to top, same as modern tape.
https://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/cinsc22o.jpg
Wrapped backwards, the edges peel up at the outside curve in
use. No different from laying roof shingles bottom to top (!).
On 9/1/2025 6:54 PM, cyclintom wrote:
One of the Saturday ride group was asking me how to install bar tape. Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they start from the center of the bar and work their way to the bottom.
I don't know how this could work since the wraps would be exposed to the pressure of your hands in the wrong direction nd eventually push it loose on the bar.
There are plenty of useful, helpful youtube videos for all
sorts of things. There are also plenty of 'how to repair'
videos featuring hammers and duct tape.
On 9/1/2025 8:06 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:54:46 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
wrote:
Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they start from the center of the bar and work their way to the bottom.
"Wrap Vintage Trek Bike Cloth Handlebar Tape Like Factory Original" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hC1Xb1UZro>
At 1:10 in the video, the author mentions that this vintage Trek 412
uses cloth handlebar tape which is wrapped starting from the center
and working his way to the handlebar end. <https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=70>
At 8:19 in the video, the author re-wraps the handlebar tape, again starting at the center and working his way to the handlebar end. <https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=499>
Cloth handlebar tape: <https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=cloth%20handlebar%20tape>
Also, note that leather handlebar tape is wrapped in the same manner:
"How To Wrap Bar Tape Perfectly" <https://www.condorcycles.com/en-us/blogs/journal/39615937-how-to-wrap-bar-tape-perfectly>
"Start at the bottom of the bar on the right hand drop and overlap
half the width of the tape from the end. This extra tape is stuffed
into the end of the bar and finished with a bar plug. It protects you
if you fall on the bar and holds the bar plugs in place."
Ass backwards, both.
Cotton tape wraps bottom to top, same as modern tape.
https://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/cinsc22o.jpg
Wrapped backwards, the edges peel up at the outside curve in
use. No different from laying roof shingles bottom to top (!).
On Mon Sep 1 19:12:34 2025 AMuzi wrote:
On 9/1/2025 6:54 PM, cyclintom wrote:
One of the Saturday ride group was asking me how to install bar tape. Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they start from the center of the bar and work their way to the bottom.
I don't know how this could work since the wraps would be exposed to the pressure of your hands in the wrong direction nd eventually push it loose on the bar.
There are plenty of useful, helpful youtube videos for all
sorts of things. There are also plenty of 'how to repair'
videos featuring hammers and duct tape.
Speaking of which, as I was returning from my ride this morning, there is a weird intersexction where traffic can either turn into the shopping center parking lot to the right or most traffic turns right at the end of the block. As a bike, I gostraight and stay in the middle lane. Some Asian woman nearly hit me. The left rear quarter of her new car was recently worked on and was primeed. And already the left front fender was being held on with duct tape. All she had to do was lift off of the
On 9/2/2025 7:58 AM, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/1/2025 8:06 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:54:46 GMT, cyclintom
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Apparently there is a YouTube demonstration where they
start from the center of the bar and work their way to
the bottom.
"Wrap Vintage Trek Bike Cloth Handlebar Tape Like Factory
Original"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hC1Xb1UZro>
At 1:10 in the video, the author mentions that this
vintage Trek 412
uses cloth handlebar tape which is wrapped starting from
the center
and working his way to the handlebar end.
<https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=70>
At 8:19 in the video, the author re-wraps the handlebar
tape, again
starting at the center and working his way to the
handlebar end.
<https://youtu.be/3hC1Xb1UZro?t=499>
Cloth handlebar tape:
<https://www.google.com/search?
udm=2&q=cloth%20handlebar%20tape>
Also, note that leather handlebar tape is wrapped in the
same manner:
"How To Wrap Bar Tape Perfectly"
<https://www.condorcycles.com/en-us/blogs/
journal/39615937-how-to-wrap-bar-tape-perfectly>
"Start at the bottom of the bar on the right hand drop and
overlap
half the width of the tape from the end.� This extra tape
is stuffed
into the end of the bar and finished with a bar plug. It
protects you
if you fall on the bar and holds the bar plugs in place."
Ass backwards, both.
Cotton tape wraps bottom to top, same as modern tape.
https://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/cinsc22o.jpg
Wrapped backwards, the edges peel up at the outside curve in
use. No different from laying roof shingles bottom to top (!).
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