due ruote 

masi61

Hudson308 

That looks pretty nice! MUCH better than electrical tape, IMHO. How do you secure the ends? I've been wrapping top-down to avoid taping the top, with some thin two-sided tape underneath to help keep it in place.

markwesti

I'm not knocking it some people get very creative with it as you have due route , but I don't understand the need . Start at the top , over lap once to lock it down finish with the end cap .


IMG_0189 by mark westi, on Flickr

natterberry 

3alarmer 

...not all bar tapes behave the same. and if I wrap corked tape from the top down it invariably shifts around under use. And finishing corked tape by stuffing it in the bar end and holding it in with the plug is not all that practical Works fine like you show it for cloth bar tape and some of the thinner ones, but my hands are olde and frail. My palms need cushion and comfort for longer rides.

Giacomo 1 

I'm a top down guy when I have fancy panto on the bars and stem. I haven't had a problem with unwrapping or the tape coming loose, so I go with it. But I do think the OP did a nice job on the bottom up wrap. Nice attention to detail.

markwesti

@3alarmer , the wrap shown above was my first attempt with Newbaums , man you really gotta pay attention with that stuff but I like it . Not like wrapping on the Cinelli Cork . Here is a wrap I did a while back with Fizik .
Before I realized to start with the lock wrap .


DSCF2011 by mark westi, on Flickr

Sir_Name 

SurferRosa

I cut the black electrical tape to 10mm wide. Looks great.

For a flip, I'll use a colored tape, 'cause newbies like it, especially girls.

SurferRosa

Sir_Name 

79pmooney

I used to wrap my bars that way. Stopped years ago because 1) as I slide my hands down the bar to the hoods I an doing mh best to curl the upper tape edges down. (I don't slide up; I let go and re-grip.) So any bartape where the edge can be curled looks old way to soon. 2) If I want to move brake levers or replace cables, I only have to unwrap to the levers, not the whole tape job. 3) A lot of tapes don't tuck neatly into the bar end.

masi61, go to any library and take out a book on sailing knots. Whipping is as old as sailing. (Ignore the use of needles. Just start the wrap as indicated. When you get to the end of our wrap, tuck the end through the loop. Pull the other end tight, pulling the loop into the middle.) So get the book. Do a few. Soon you'll be whipping stuff just because you can and its fun.

Ben

squirtdad

That looks nice, and I will be tempted for my next build, but will probably just do black electrical tape. Sounds silly but for me bar wrapping is just stressful, although my last one, done with fizik came out nicely

Jon T

Whipping is also used for replacing the line guides on a fishing pole. Dad taught me how to "whip" probably 50 years ago.
Jon

Giuanin

Electrical tape too modern ?
Chatterton / electrical tape was used at least in the 20s !

kross57

Whipping is also how every fishing fly is completed. I never thought of it for handlebar tape, but neat idea.

I'm in the electrical tape camp. Easy to use, and to me it looks great. Also, easy to re-do if need be. But I appeciate the art of other methods.

FlMTNdude

jamesdak 

Hmmm... not a newbie or a girl but in my book there is nothing wrong with some colored tape.

USAZorro

Not my image, but this is another concept I like.

RobbieTunes

I've often used a contrasting color, about 1/4 inch inside the tape below it. Colored electrical tape is generally pretty cheap in multi-packs. Ever notice how really good electrical tape works better?

However, the OP can come to my house and re-finish all my wraps with that macramé.

Top down wraps don't work for me, as I spend a lot of time on the drops, and it pushes down, unwraps, peels, etc. It certainly is easier to wrap that way.

Random Tandem

I am also a whipped top enthusiast (wow, that could be misunderstood in the wrong forum), but I have not had success with using leather as the whip material because if it gets wet it stretches and unwraps. I use coloured synthetic string for most of my builds.

-Will

TugaDude

Detailed instructions for whipping with twine (or similar) can be found readily on the Rivendell website. They promote it with cloth tape, but it works in all sorts of applications as stated above.

due ruote 

crank_addict

I acquired an original 80s era Peugeot and questioned the top, down bar wrap.

Then thanks to YouTube, there's a factory Peugeot film from the 1980s and shows the bars being wrapped from the top, down. Probably saved the factory quite a few francs.