panamapete

i just got ea70 bars, and i was wondering if there was a "prefered" method of wrapping them. should i leave the flat parts exposed or wrap them, or is it just a preference.

Seattle Forrest

Just a preference. Depends what's most comfortable to your hands ... unless you want to save 13 grams.

panamapete

omg 13 grams!!!! so 195lbs - 13g ...carry the 4, divide by 6....... cool thanks ill probably wrap it all up then. appreciate it

MikeyBoyAz

I think carbon ergo bars can look nice w/o wrapping but I think the alloys allow too much vibration in your hands if exposed.

I personally wrap my current carbon ergos with lizardskin from the drop up to the hood and then wrap over that will fizik tape all the way from the bottom to a typical stopping point of traditional round bars... the fizik tape only functions as a grip improvement as it is paper thin... I use the black felt like bar tape on my bars particularly. Because the Lizardskin is thinner than typical cork tape the two layers don't look unusual and unless I tell someone they are double wrapped, they have no idea.
The main reason I wrap up to the top is the internal cable routing sucked and pinched the cables so I ran them like traditional cables and decided to wrap the whole way up the bar... I also didn't like the transition from carbon to grippy bar tape.

panamapete

well i wasnt the kindest about taking off my bar tape and dont really feel like buying new stuff, so ill attempt to use what i have and decide if i want to wrap it all the way (depending on how i think it looks), thanks.

adclark

I wrap mine just to where the bar diameter gets larger near the stem. I stop just before the change in size.

tcwayne

The tape stops at the spot where the bars get fatter and flatter. It's way more doper.

HMF

Agreed. It just looks cooler when it doesn't go all the way to the stem. Plus, when my hands are on the tops I'm not concerned with grip, so why bother?

hueyhoolihan

remember... *like* units to subtract.

panamapete

should have changed it to a decimal first 0_0

panamapete

since its alloy, and not carbon fiber, do you find vibration to be a issue at all