To me- the bar tape epitomized the "TEN SPEED" when it came into the focus of my neighborhood friends and I in the mid-60's- and no place was it moreso than at the local Schwinn shop-

The line of schwinn drop bar bikes then were all metallic in nature- and the tape a transluscent matching plastic- mesmerizing- so cool and so very much 'the 60's' with drag racing and glossy magazines of Candy colored hot rods spewing flames-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTkgicMbQk

Gold, metallic red, metallic blue, two shades of green- still love the colors- the tape was I think about 79 cents a roll and the matching spray paint- available everywhere- three or four dollars a can.

Thank God for Schwinn-

Nothing still surpasses that look as far as tape goes-