Bar tapes for a graham weigh

[Percybigun]

Just bought this off eBay, graham weigh 653 with camp group, sti’s, Mavic wheels, great price, woohoo! Looks like late 90’s. I haven’t collected it yet so dunno the frame number.

The bar tapes look the sh1ts, so what’s the most appropriate stuff to use? I was thinking white, cream or silver, to go with the white hoods, unless everyone screams for black (to match my filthy hands)

Should they be leather, foam padded, perforated, or what?

Otherwise it’s staying as is (famous last words) except for some NOS gum Walls! Oh and maybe carbon forks, seat and post....

 

[Nob]

White Tape & white saddle with tan Wall tyres

 

[FiveAlpha]

Re:

With a black saddle, black tape or red tape (or black/red splash?!). White saddles are a pain to keep clean, but if you go for it, white tape (not cork).

Tan wall tyres are from an earlier era, and go with chrome, IMO. Stick with all black tyres.

 

[hamster]

White bar tape looks wonderful until you have ridden the bike, then it rapidly looks grotty.
Red/black fleck would be my choice and looks totally 1990s.

 

[pigman]

White bar tape looks wonderful until you have ridden the bike, then it rapidly looks grotty.

+1

black saddle, black tape

 

[allenh]

black saddle, black/red splash bar tape and tan wall tyres but then I can't stand all black tyres so I'd put tan wall tyres on anything given the choice

 

[Percybigun]

I’ve got the bike now, it’s a 1993 so it will be getting tan walls. I Use kitchen oxy stain remover spray to keep the white bar tapes clean, scrub hard!

 

[bjarnetv]

if you dont mind a shiny finish, the fizik superlight glossy stays white without cleaning.

 

[Percybigun]

Wish i’d Got them now! I fitted fizik tempo Matt silver perforated tapes, with gel pads, and adjusted the bar and lever height, nos Vittoria 700 x 20’s, and swapped the pedals skewers seat and post for some lighter ones I had laying around.