Old 12-26-13, 03:38 PM
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Do you wrap top-down or bottom-up? My directions were intended to be bottom-up, and are based on whether your natural hand movement (from the inside to the outside of the bar) tends to tighten or loosen the tape in the drops. Also important to pay attention to how the tape is wrapped where it crosses the brake lever clamps. Go one way and the tape changes direction, go the other way and it stays in the same wrapping orientation.

If you wrap bottom-up, then wrapping so the holes overlap the solid section gives you a look of 'mostly perforated'. Many tapes are also skived this way so that the finished product is very smooth.
If you wrap so the solid section overlaps the perforations, you get a look with more 'stripes' of solid tape.

Not a big thing (hey it's your bike, after all) but something about the picture made me stop and look more closely, that's when I noticed.

I'm not the handlebar wrap police, I swear.
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