I just wrap it around as best I can and then just try to not spend too much
time staring at the back of the brake levers!
On Friday, June 7, 2013 8:06:29 PM UTC-4, jinxed wrote:
I picked up some Newbaums tape recently with plans to try cloth...once
again. I've done this a few times in the
The Riv video shows the upper section being done from the brake lever up.
Recently I tried ending both sections at the brake lever and found that it
really works well. It makes the hemp twine thing unnecessary, but you can
still do it just for looks. It works really well for a harlequin weave.
Some good advice here. Another top tip for troublesome cloth: soak it in
water before you wrap. It helps it stretch, lay flat (not bunch and kink as
much), and as it dries, it shrinks a bit so it's nice and tight.
BTW, I only do this if I'm having trouble with a particular brand of tape,
Issue 9, pg. 15
--
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
This is how RBW does it. 2 sections of tape with an offset lever
clamp strip. Scroll down to the handlebar tape and twine video.
Note how the lever clamp strip is placed offset around the brake lever
clamp.
http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/twine.htm
--
You received this message because
I think it's harder to lift the brakes off the bar, ahead of taping, when
one also has aero brakes, with their cables taped down to the bars. Not
impossible, but harder. The thing I learned to do is just practice with a
scrap roll of cloth tape... practice can lead to muscle memory, if not
This makes sense for non-aero brake levers, which the OP is using. For aero
brake levers would a similar approach work?
David
On Friday, June 7, 2013 8:50:01 PM UTC-5, Jan Heine wrote:
Traditionally, bars were wrapped under the brake levers. You mount the
brake levers on the bare bars to get
The riv video way is the way I've always done it when I rode drops (cheater
strips at the brake clamps and starting from the ends and finishing at the
stem, then twine or tape). Trying to work with cloth around the brakes without
using the strips a PIA or next to impossible (at least for my
Traditionally, bars were wrapped under the brake levers. You mount the
brake levers on the bare bars to get the location correct. Then you take
the levers off the clamps, and wrap the bars over the clamps. Attach the
brake levers again, and done. It's neat and clean, and doesn't have the
One of the Rivendell readers has a picture spread showing how to do it
this way. I think somewhere between Reader 0 -20
--
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,
Excellent news!! Thank you guys so much. It made sense in my mind. I'll dig
through my readers for grins. Not sure if I have em that far back but I bet
I'll read something entertaining I forgot.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW
Owners Bunch
11 matches
Mail list logo
