Search results

It’s an old BSA frame, fork, stem, headset, Bayless Wiley BB and Williams chainring and crank. The chainring is 1 inch pitch and the crank arms are threaded for 1/2 inch pedal spindles. The frame came with this stuff, along with three coates of paint. It was originally blue. The rest of the...

Old fashioned tar tape. Impossible to wrap without wrinkles. The winkles pretty much flatten out with use. It’s thin and if you pull hard it rips.

I use a lot of tar tape. Good enough for racers in 1910, good good enough for me now.

For my gravel bike, that I’ve ridden close to 100 miles a few times, I used foam insulation tape that was compressed with another wrap of electric tape and a top cover of bar tape. I was 75 when I did these rides and I have finger arthritis, fused fingers, Dubutryns contractions, wrist arthritis...

In the 60s-70s bar tape started at the stem and the tape end was stuffed into the bar end. That was held in place with the plugs. All the books showed this technique. I don’t know when thinking changed. Part of the problem is fragile tape nowadays. If you stretch it a little it breaks. There is...

How stupid of me.oh well

Good morning.