Originally Posted by
momoman
It looks like you bought the Continental GP5000 in tan. Maybe you should have bought the GP5000 Transparent color. That brown sidewall would have matched your bar tape better, but the transparent color is the most expensive of all the colors.
Easier said than done. These days you gotta take what's available. The Pirellis I had were bunk and I needed the tires to do a ride by the weekend. The GP5ks with the tan were on sale for 45$ each so it was a no brainer and I had them in time for the weekend ride.
If the Pirellis were not so far out of true I would have kept them and rode them but the were so bad they were rubbing against the frame.. I even had my wheels looked at by my LBM and he said the wheels were dead on and it was the tires that were the problem.
I'm just really surprised with the plethora of colored bar tapes available on the market that there is no "natural" leather tape to math these GP's.