What Olaf said. Wrapping stem-to-ends can help if your hands tend to slip forward on the bars—your hands catch on the edges of the tape, which unfortunately get worn and frayed more quickly.
All of my bikes are wrapped end-to-stem. --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com @CampyOnlyguy (Twitter/Instagram) > On Jan 1, 2018, at 1:20 PM, olofst...@gmail.com wrote: > > The good thing with wrapping from the end to the stem is that the tape – > regardless of material – is wrapped rooftile-wise so that your hands don´t > roll up the edges outward-downward. If that isn´t a problem for you and your > intended tape, do it either way. > > And a pleasant New Year! > > Olof Stroh > Uppsala Sweden > > From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > [mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ted > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2018 7:55 PM > To: RBW Owners Bunch > Subject: [RBW] Bar wrap direction > > Back in the nearly forgotten days of my youth I recall wrapping bar tape from > the stem to towards the end, tucking a bit in the end and finishing with a > bar plug. But for years now (since I started using cork) I've been wrapping > the other direction and finishing with tape or twine. I figure the change is > because thick stiff cork won't tuck into the end. But it looks like folks > around here tend to also wrap cloth tape from the end towards the stem. Is > that because bar end shifters favored by many don't play nice with tucking > the tape inside? > I ask because I'm going to give some Rivet leather tape a try and it came > with smallish end plugs and instructions to wrap from the stem to the end and > tuck the tail inside. > I'd appreciate hearing folks views on the finer points of wrapping drop bars > with cloth/cork/leather. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > <mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch > <https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > <mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch > <https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
