I just did a Newbaums wrap-grip on a Jitensha semi-straight bar. I wanted it to be just a tiny bit thicker, so I went through my leftover Newbaums scraps, and cut six strips to the length of the grip area, three for each side. Laid side by side right next to each other, the three strips covered the entire surface area of the 22.2mm straight bar, with just a tiny bit of overlap. I then wrapped over that normally with more Newbaums. I overlapped a half-width every time around, so it was a pretty uniform thickness. This means that every square mm of bar in that grip area is covered with exactly 3 layers thick of Newbaums. That's still not super thick, but that's what I did. So far so good.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Monday, April 2, 2018 at 8:55:49 AM UTC-7, tc wrote: > > I've not double wrapped a bar before. What have you found to be a good > first layer material for double-wrapping? > > > Also, do you find the wrap direction of the base layer matters? > > My new (to me) SimpleOne has an inverted Albatross bar. which I've found > for my hands is too small in diameter with just a single layer of the > Brooks leather wrap that I like and want to keep on the outer layer. I > don't want another, thicker 1-layer wrap. I'm only wrapping a 5.75" > section for each grip. > > I have some black Newbaums, which is nice and cheap, but didn't know if > folks have found that cotton makes for a good/bad base layer. > > Thanks for any suggestions, > Tom > > PS. Funny -- some research on other forums didn't really turn up anything > conclusive, although one OP that evidently counts grams (unlike me!) got > grilled for "adding so much weight that he'd flip over his handlebars > during heavy braking", or as another guy cautioned, he'd have to "shave his > body to make up for the weight gain of the additional wrap layer"! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
