Originally Posted by
WheresWaldo
[MENTION=36500]Metaluna[/MENTION], what a great suggestion, everyone usually jumps on the vinyl electrical tape bandwagon first, but for grip this sounds way better, I am going to log this in the back of my mind the next time I need something like this.
Thanks. I actually first heard about it in one of the other forums here several years ago. It comes up occasionally as a finishing tape for handlebar wrapping, but I don't like it as much for that. It holds great, but because it stretches so much, the width also changes a lot depending on how hard you pull it, so you can see where one layer overlaps another if you aren't careful. Probably looks better with practice. With electrical tape you can do a couple of wraps around and have a nice sharp border because the width never changes as you wrap the tape back on itself. I did use it recently to shim some bar end plugs that kept falling out though.
It looks like it's been mentioned in the Electronics forum
once before as well, but doesn't come up very often.