Park Pre Restoration (a work in progress)

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01-21-11 | 08:06 AM

#26

rat fink

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I like the tape.

01-30-11 | 05:56 PM

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The recent thread re finishing touches on handlebar tape has me obsessing about mine. Poll time: What do you think, blue or white? (The blue wasn't a perfect color match, so I tested one side with plain white, too.)

Final build pics will have to wait until I can recover the leather on the badly-worn flite saddle--something I've never done before. If anyone has suggestions for sourcing leather, I'm all ears.

In the meantime, I can't stop looking at the newly polished shifters, which, IMHO, look so much nicer than they did with the original dark anodized finish.

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01-30-11 | 06:37 PM

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habes78023

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Originally Posted by gaucho777

The recent thread re finishing touches on handlebar tape has me obsessing about mine. Poll time: What do you think, blue or white? (The blue wasn't a perfect color match, to I tested one side with plain white too.)

I say go with blue, given all detailing that you did. The tape matches the frame blue pretty well IMO. The cable housing is what appears to be the darker non-matching blue. But I still wouldn't change that. I guess I'm just a sucker for the blue details.

Blue cable ends? Nice.