Originally Posted by
non-fixie
While cotton would be the obvious choice, there were alternatives, BITD. These are Hein van Breenen's bars. Pictured during the '52 Tour de France. Definitely not cotton:
That's the most BA vintage bicycle number plating effort I've ever set eyes upon... from the wrapping of the number onto the bike's tubes, to the matching of the number profile from the top half to the bottom half. That's some rad C&V sh^t there.