Originally Posted by I Like Peeing
I recently took the bar tape off my chrome B-123 bars, and I want to clean them up... I used Velox bartape with an adhesive strip, so now the glue residue is all over them. Does anyone have any experience with Goo Gone on chrome handlebars? And while I'm at it, I'm looking for more comfortable chrome handlebars other than Nitto (preferably Cinelli road drops although I haven't seen them).
Goo Gone works fine. After having done this on a couple handlebars, I've now decided that I really don't care what the bars look like under the tape. I just remove anything easy like tangled electrical tape, and leave the residue in place when rewrapping the bars.
If you've got perfectionist tendencies, as I sometimes do, just rewrap the bars before you think too hard about it. You'll see that they look just as good afterwards, and try to forgot about the ickiness underneath
