Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
with respect to our discussion on handlebar tape, i got an idea from one of the ladies at urbane yesterday who said she has wrapped her bars with tennis racket grip. apparently it comes in all sorts of leather (perforatted) and costs much, much less than the brooks tape. about $10-15 will do a set of bars. i may look into it when i get back from holidays.
I have had that idea for a while, but if you're going to be wrapping drops the tennis grip tape will be much too short. I was considering buying some to wrap some bullhorns or do a half wrap of some track bars but I don't really need to at the moment.