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Old 05-12-09 | 12:20 PM
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JOHN J
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From: upstate NY (eastern side)

Bikes: giant ATX 760, Falcon Road Bike (ss) custom marinoni tourismo (full dresser) ,

yes But I take the inexpensive way out.

I grew tired of Mail ordering tape whenever I changed things at almost 4.00 per roll plus shipping.

My main bike has 48cm noodle bars thus 4 rolls of Tape are needed.

One day I re did my cabling and didnt want to order 16.00 worth of tape and 8.95 for shipping.

I remembered My Hockey playing days and thus went to a hockey shop and bought 2 giant rolls of Yellow CLOTH
stick tape $1.65 per roll .

1 roll was plenty enough to do the 48cm noodle with 2 layers and its looks every bit as good as the Bike specific stuff when it has shellac on it durability hasnt been an issue either though its pretty thin, but easy to put on and with a few layers of shellac very tough.

I have this on all my bikes.

on my commuter /LD bike 2 layers yellow hockey tape with amber shellac,

on my single speed one layer cork and 1 layer hockey tape with Amber shellac same on the single speed cross bike.

lots of colors availible too. black, blue ,green, orange ,yellow, whiteand red I believe

"John"

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