Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
I think bar tape is personal preference, I prefer the lowest cost cork tape, but I will never suggest to someone that they use something other than what they choose to use. I even put cork tape on my kayak paddles.
When i worked in a bike shop in the 70s and the choice was plastic tape and cloth tape, any of the modern tapes are infinitely better than the stuff from decades ago.
Yep. 56, riding all my life and this is the first time for leather for me
I rebuild a lot of bikes so am always trying new things. Just now I was contemplating the different bar treatments I've done in the last couple of years. cork coated with shellac, brown cloth coated with shellac that looked like leather, harlequin pattern cloth, rubber cambium wrap, old bicycle inner tubes as bar wrap and now.. leather.
Double wrapped innertube.
Brain hurting first attempt at Harlequin wrapping
Brown cloth and shellac
Synthetic cork and shellac. It's shiny because I just did it. With use it dulls down.
