Jax Rhapsody

Seeing as it's been a while; I've ridden that bike with innertube bartape all last year, and I have concluded that it's a perfectly viable option, ergo I didn't waste time using it. Vulcanized rubber ain't sticky. It hadn't faded in the hot sun, or dirtied my hand, nor were they sore from long rides, or out of saddle sprinting. They surely aren't slippery, my hands don't really sweat, so I don't know of that aspect, but I imagine they'd hold up, and definitely won't absorb it and rot the bars.