What's your favorite cloth tape?
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What's your favorite cloth tape?
I'm going to get new bars, therefore... I want to try cloth tape. My bars are going to be wide and double wrapped - old soft handlebar tape on the inside, cloth tape on the outside.
What's your favorite cloth tape?
What's your favorite cloth tape?
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Well…my favorite is cloth wrap tape I’ve made myself. I’ve done it a few times. I’ll go to the fabric store and get a few yards of some material with a particular color and/or patten that I like. Cut it into long 2” strips, fold it in half, and then wrap the bars with that. Works well for me and looked good complementing the color of the bike.
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I fiddle around getting the tape just right and find I don't need or want the adhesive so I use Herringbone Cotton Twill Tape (which is what Newbaums is I believe) in 30' rolls available everywhere and much less expensive. The pale tape shown below on the right with shellacing turns a golden color that matches my leather saddles well. Picture below has many many miles on it and will get a cleaning and shellac touch up soon.
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My wife turned me on to bias tape,used in sewing. It's basically cloth bar tape without glue. We bought 50 yd rolls of both black and kinda like a cream colour on Amazon for like $10-$15 each. It comes in different widths and I think you can dye it any colour.. John
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Newbaum's makes a padded tape that might negate the need to double-wrap. It's pretty cushiony.
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I fiddle around getting the tape just right and find I don't need or want the adhesive so I use Herringbone Cotton Twill Tape (which is what Newbaums is I believe) in 30' rolls available everywhere and much less expensive. The pale tape shown below on the right with shellacing turns a golden color that matches my leather saddles well. Picture below has many many miles on it and will get a cleaning and shellac touch up soon.
I like your tape application. I will try it on my old vintage bike, it has a Brooks saddle and this will go nicely with the brooks.
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Well…my favorite is cloth wrap tape I’ve made myself. I’ve done it a few times. I’ll go to the fabric store and get a few yards of some material with a particular color and/or patten that I like. Cut it into long 2” strips, fold it in half, and then wrap the bars with that. Works well for me and looked good complementing the color of the bike.
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Haven't wrapped bars with it, but I've been using hockey tape for hammer, clamp handles.
Inexpensive, works well, easy to double layer, even colors 'tho I only have black.
Should work well for your set up.
Inexpensive, works well, easy to double layer, even colors 'tho I only have black.
Should work well for your set up.
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I use friction tape - what used to be known as electrical tape before vinyl took over. It's very thin, and with arthritis in the thumbs, I don't want the bars any fatter than necessary.