Tired of electrical tape.

[bugloss]

Groanings

I'm bored of looking at electrical tape on my handle bars and was wondering if anyone had found something a bit more fetching to finish off the wrap on coloured Benotto tape.

Ideally I would like to get some world champion striped tape or maybe Italian or Belgian colours.

 

[dorset boy]

Use the Yellow / Green earth tape,then you can pretend that your champion of Australia !

 

[Excel]

I often start from the top of the bars and tuck inside the open end of the bars a small amount of residue tape before inserting the plugs or an alternative is the plastic lockring that tidies it all up on the top that should be available from any useful LBS

Groanings

I'm bored of looking at electrical tape on my handle bars and was wondering if anyone had found something a bit more fetching to finish off the wrap on coloured Benotto tape.

Ideally I would like to get some world champion striped tape or maybe Italian or Belgian colours.

 

[FINNEY1973]

You get world champion stripes with this stuff http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHINY-BLUE-PL ... 1155873803 which looks fine but isn't particularly sticky and doesn't do too well in holding the bartape. Needs electrical tape underneath with the stripes wrapped on top of it.

Not sure how easy (or legal) it is but it must be possible to make reproduction stuff perhaps from a photo...

 

[lewisfoto]

I often start from the top of the bars and tuck inside the open end of the bars a small amount of residue tape before inserting the plugs or an alternative is the plastic lockring that tidies it all up on the top that should be available from any useful LBS

I agree this makes for a very clean look, and I do this on my show bikes, but wrapping this way means that the pressure from you hands is constantly unwrapping the bars. Whereas wrapping from bottom to top the bar tape gets tighter as you ride.

Steven

 

[bugloss]

Thanks for the replies.

Like Steven I wrap my bars from the bottom upwards as I don't want the bar tape unravelling from the pressure of my hands.

I love the colours of Benotto tape and I really like a neatly wrapped set of Benotto'd bars, what did they use in the 70's at the height of the Benotto revolution to finish off with ?

 

[lewisfoto]

You could try a strip of clear tape that might even disappear?

 

[Ian Raleigh]

Hmmm! The ends always look good with the champion stripes but soon end up looking a mess and insulating tape is always coming undone.

What I do is ensure the end of the benotto tape is at the bottom/underneath and I simply super glue it down for a neat look to the tape.

 

[dutchie]

I often start from the top of the bars and tuck inside the open end of the bars a small amount of residue tape before inserting the plugs or an alternative is the plastic lockring that tidies it all up on the top that should be available from any useful LBS

I agree this makes for a very clean look, and I do this on my show bikes, but wrapping this way means that the pressure from you hands is constantly unwrapping the bars. Whereas wrapping from bottom to top the bar tape gets tighter as you ride.

Steven

I agree with you where it concerns conventional bar tape (unwrapping). But with Benotto which is very thin and can be streched during mounting this is not an issue. That is what experienced.

 

[mattsccm]

Heat shrink tubing if you can get the colour you want.