Bill and Fenderbender, Thanks for those ideas. I will use one of these techniques on the Atlantis when I return from my summer tour. Bill, that's a beautiful tape job and exactly why I might be inclined to use cloth instead of cork for my next tape job.
You know what they say about men with bigger hands . . . they need bigger bars! Dave On May 1, 11:30 am, Bill Connell <bconn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Dave Craig <dcr...@prescott.edu> wrote: > > Shellacked cotton tape is beautiful. One can do fancy harlequin weaves > > with it. It wears like iron. Why shouldn't everyone use it? I would > > love to. There are two reasons for me. Sometimes I like to ride > > without gloves and I have big hands. Riding with cotton tape is like > > riding on bare bars - no padding and a small diameter. I just don't > > find cotton taped bars all that comfortable. All this said, I am > > switching my Atlantis off touring and town duty now that I have a > > Bombadil. Perhaps, I'll consider committing to wearing gloves and > > using cloth tape. > > I have big hands too, and cloth taped bars are too skinny for me. I do > like the feel of cloth though, so i wrap a layer of rubber tape (or > split innertube) on the bar first to fatten it up, then a layer of > cloth on top. There's a picture of my Redwood with this treatment > here:http://wjc.fidean.net/log/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/redwood-diamondt... > > I don't have the tape shellacked though, and the black has faded quite > a bit since that picture. I don't like the feel of slickly shellacked > tape, but i might put just a coat or two on to keep the tape in better > shape. > > -- > Bill Connell > St. Paul, MN --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
