[RBW] Re: perforated bar wrap
i used the brooks tape and it hasn't been a problem. though the cotton with the shellac is not a bad idea to give some cushion, the brooks leather bar tape is pretty firm and stiff until it breaks in. On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 10:06:33 PM UTC-5, ted wrote: > > Hey all, > > I've got a best practices question I hope you can help me with. I am > planing to try some perforated leather handlebar wrap, and it occurred to > me that sweat might accumulate in the holes along the tops of my drop bars > thereby leading to corrosion problems. Is that an unwarranted concern? > Would it make sense to put on a layer of cloth tape with shellac under the > perforated leather? Anybody here have experience with that sort of thing? > > thnks > ted > -- 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.
[RBW] Re: perforated bar wrap
As someone who sweats heavily and has come to prefer cloth bar tape I don’t think perforated leather would be any more of an issue than highly absorbent cotton cloth and I’ve never had an issue although my mileage has been limited and bar wraps short lived anyway with lots of recent bar changing experiments... I do have one wrap with brooks leather and also find it very firm and smooth and less cushiony than expected but what I found more annoying was the long strips are not always one uninterrupted strip and instead have a stitched/glued/beveled seam piecing together two smaller pieces and I pulled one apart during installation since the leather didn’t stretch much and I was pulling taught to get it to lay flat and the seam was a weak spot. -- 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.
[RBW] Re: perforated bar wrap
Hi Ted, I wear gloves when riding, so don't have the sweat issue you described but I also don't see the holes getting gunked up with dirt of any other type. But the few times I've ridden short distances I've found Brooks leather tape to be kinda slick, not as grippy as it feels with gloves. If I were gonna ride skin-to-tape on a regular basis I'm not sure I'd go with leather, despite its other advantages. Dave -- 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.
