Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Comments after riding the rainy season, using leather tape ?
Treat it with lots of SnowSeal and it will survive just fine. If removing the bars (or bars and stem) is easy on that bike, I'd just treat the leather with a lot of SnowSeal in the fall and remove the "cockpit" and set to by a radiator or over a heat duct for a week. I do this for my mittens and to new leather strapping I buy for toeclips.
Ben