I have been building MY "TEN SPEEDS" for many years now, refining one version after another in an effort to present what people like and, hopefully, need. It looks like I will hit 2,000,000 hits this month, however, the site was not always well visited.

I stumbled across this page just a few minutes ago. I wrote the page ages ago, and thought that you might like a peek at my humble beginnings with a How To Do It Article.

I am saving the page so that I don't loose the whole bloody site again, which is what happened when Geocities dumped their free hosting...

Anyway, have a peek at RandWrap and get a chuckle. I did!

Whoa! Do you still do this with your boot laces? It's the same basic technique floating around the interwebs for hemp twine, but I've never seen shoelaces in that position...

Your "Rand wrap" illustration is about the clearest and useful I've seen.

Hmm, most of the handlebars I see have "Made by Somebody Somewhere" on one side and a fancy wreath emblem on the other side encircling either "Somebody" or "SB" which stands for Somebody. I guess the art designers at Somebody ran out of ideas.

I forgot to mention I did that page back in the mid to late nineties, for what ever that is worth.

Nice! Very useful, I work part time at a "race" oriented bike shop and am continually appalled by the fact that we use electrical tape to secure bar wrap on a 6k De Rosa....

Boyscout knots 101 - Google "Rope Whipping"

You beat me to it. As soon as I saw the diagram, I said "That's the same as what we teach the scouts for whipping a rope".

Actually, we called the knot sizing in the Millwright trade(I used to splice rope and wire rope in the Old Days), but that really means nothing. I just thought that it might work with a handlebar finish and it can be made to look very good. Use good materials and lots of practice.

These days, I am pretty lazy, resorting to mixing electrical tape colors...