Originally Posted by mr3speed

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I made myself some cork grips for my 1981 Miyata Commuter. I was just kind of wingin' it and think they came out pretty nice! Thought I'd share in case anyone else wanted to do something like this. I looked around and didn't see any info about doing this. Thanks!
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Nicely done. I used shellac on my cork grips and it worked nicely. I did it in 2009 and it is still holding up. I will say though this bike hasn't see a lot of use since 2011 when I bought my Surly, but it was ridden a lot before that. I used an amber color since I thought it would look good on the natural color cork, and I like the outcome. It did darken the darker cork bar tape though. I believe the cork tape was black to begin with.