Handlebar Endcaps
 

I've never run into this, but have seen it a million times. My bars were just re-wrapped with Cinelli tape. The endcaps keep working their way out after a couple of rides. I have never personally had this happen to me in 7 years, but now it is. Is there an endcap that I can purchase that is reusable, that will stay put?

Wrap the ends of the caps with electrical tape and push 'em back in.

That or that sticky-tack stuff you use to put pictures on walls.

This.

Velox makes rubber handlebar plugs with screw expanders. LBS should have them or be able to order them.

But, usually it's just a sign of someone doing a bad job on the wrapping. There should have been about half an inch sticking out (or more if it's really thin) to grab on to the plug. You could try electrical tape as suggested above, but I think a short piece of cork tape would work better.

Try banging them back in while you're riding at speed. That will cure you from worrying about it ever again.

:lol:

I did this and I'm cured.

They are wrapped perfectly with enough inside the bars.....

Then why are they falling out?

Cork. You can re-cycle from wine bottles or get here:

http://www.rivbike.com/products/show...gs-pair/16-175

Don't ride without them...

nah. this is tacky. Use Velox plugs: http://www.rivbike.com/products/show...gs-pair/16-077

or see what the bike shop has in stock.

Tacky but the OP can use their current plugs instead of switching to fugly plugs...

Use epoxy. Fill the bars completely and you'll be set.

Is that you?

I have a set of Bontrager end plugs that I've saved. Crappy tape, but the end plugs are great: pliable rubber and they have a reflective surface.

The caps that came with my bike at first were terrible and always coming out. Putting electrical tape around them helped a bit, but wasn't perfect. The caps that come with Fizik tape are pretty nice, and I've never had any issues with them.

get something that has a screw so that once you put it in, you the screw will allow you to expand the barend & have it held in place. my bike came with cateye model 380 bar-ends, but i can't seem to find them anywhere

+1 Works for me.

The cause of this problem, btw, is not enough bar tape hanging over and shoved into the bar. It happens to me from time to time.


I actually did that as a knee-jerk reaction once. That's a mistake you only make once.

Seems to be a small point of conroversy as to wether the tape goes inside the bar or not.

When I worked in a high-end shop back in the day of Italian steel, it wasn't considered OK to push the tape into the bar. Doing so resulted in a bulge at the end.

Instead, one would cut the bar tape at an angle, starting it flush with the end and wrap up the bar. This resulted in constant tape diameter all the way up.

Then you would shove the bar-end plug thingy in. A wrap with electrical tape was OK, if it was floppy. The Cinelli ends were sized for this procedure.

-Z

^ Yes, it even seems that some caps are meant to have no tape stuffed in. I don't really mind a bulge at the end, though. It tells me that my hands are as far back as they can go.

I also don't see why people say the electrical tape is tacky. Nobody ever sees it since it's only on the part that goes inside the bar.

I'm with Dino. The tape shouldn't bulge at the end. Either end, for that matter.

Cinelli bar plugs work well with tape.

My take on it, using Cinelli, illustrated and all:
http://sprinterdellacasa.blogspot.co...ebar-tape.html

cdr

Try the cork end plugs from http://www.greengrips.orgFit snug and are the most durable cork plug I've tried.