[RBW] Wrapping handlebars

I used to double wrap tape to boost the simension but, last time I was at Riv, they had some that looked even thicker. They were wrap Newbaum's over either industrial felt of foam tape. I tried it and I like it. Can't bring myself to wrap Newbaum's over dutch grips like Grant was doing

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My recommendation is do not tuck. If you are afraid it's going to unravel, and want to avoid that, then have somebody who has done it many times wrap your bars for you. The more times you do it the better you will get at it. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 4:54:53

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Hi Bill, What you last mentioned I did not think of until I finally finish putting everything together. I was rebuilding this bicycle and put all the parts together and said, well, now it is time to wrap the bars and realize that all the video's are wrapped with handlebars without bar end

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I use cloth tape exclusively now, but I wrapped many hundreds or thousands of bars with chubby tape (cork and fake-cork variants) in my past life working at bike shops. With chubby tape, I recommend you still start at the bottom and that you still do not tuck any in the end. It's natural to

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I have seen that one, Bob and Wally, but I wanted to know if people did that using cork wrap tape. That is thicker than the canvas cloth used in the video. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Wally Estrella wrote: > Same here. I don't do it enough to remember it and

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Same here. I don't do it enough to remember it and getting to old to try ;) On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 1:57:31 PM UTC-4, Bob K. wrote: > > I watch this video from Riv every time I wrap bars: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8DcaOJzrA > > Bob K. in Baltimore > > -- You received this

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I watch this video from Riv every time I wrap bars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8DcaOJzrA Bob K. in Baltimore -- 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

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And start at the bottom at an angle with "overlap" and when you're done cut it with a razor blade, gives you a tapered start and avoids a bunched up thick end at the shifter, which is not only unsightly but makes a lump you will feel because you will have your hand on it often. On 05/03/2017

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bottom-->up. No tuck. BL in EC On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 9:11:07 AM UTC-7, Lee Legrand wrote: > > I have always seen it wrapped from the bottom up with it wrapping going > outward from the top. Just wanted to see everyone opinion on whether it > should be tucked. I have not done it yet

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I have always seen it wrapped from the bottom up with it wrapping going outward from the top. Just wanted to see everyone opinion on whether it should be tucked. I have not done it yet but it seems that it will be too tight to have that cork edge wedge using the bar end shifters. It may not even

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Yes, in case I wasn't clear, my above suggestion works with wrapping from the bottom up. I dislike wrapping from the top down because the overlap is the wrong way on the bar tops. The edges of the tape get curled up pretty quickly. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Moore

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I always wrap from bottom upwards. This has the advantage that the spirals overlap on the downward side, so that hand pressure doesn't separate them. Tape at the end point near the stem clamp. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Lee Legrand wrote: > Hello all, > > I am

[RBW] Wrapping handlebars

I start the wrap at the bar end and wrap up to the center. Doing it that way I never tuck and have never felt the need too. -- 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,

[RBW] Wrapping handlebars

Hello all, I am wrapping my handlebars on a bicycle that I rebuilt but I wanted to ask a question about the ends. This bicycle has Riv bar ends and typically youtube videos show that the wrap without these bar ends but tucked into the ends with plugs. My question is, how is it typically done