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Installing bar-end shifters after bars are taped
I recently decided to convert a just-rebuilt bike from downtube shifters to bar ends. I didn't want to strip off the freshly-wrapped bar tape (one of my better wrap jobs, as luck would have it) in order to wrap over the lower sections of shifter housing in the usual manner. The shifters work fine with the housing outside of the tape, but the housing is a bit "floppy." That isn't a problem functionally, but it bothers me a little
Does anyone have a clever method for overwrapping the bottom-most couple of inches of housing--the part closest to the shifters, that is--to secure it a little better? I suppose I could try some sort of Rivendell-esque band of twine, but I'm no doubt there are other approaches that would work as well or better. What have you got?
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