The tricks to keeping it from disaggregating is wrap firmly but not super tight, and the pull-through piece. You know the twine is wrapped tight enough when the pull-through is difficult to accomplish. Pull the loop at least half way under the wrapped section. Make the pulling ends of the loop piece long enough so you have a good purchase on the string for pulling under the tightly wrapped twine. Lots of friction there.
Or, wrap the bars like Peter, center to ends and use the end plugs to hold the tape in place. No need for twine or tape at the stem area. Mike SLO CA On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 1:55:20 AM UTC-8 divis...@gmail.com wrote: > It has been my experience that the twine in the Riv wrap unravels fairly > quickly if you don't cement it in place with shellac. I suppose you could > also saturate it with wood glue or some similar absorbable adhesive. I am > not normally a shellacker of bar tape; it's a messy job, and shellac dries > out fast if you don't use it up. Furthermore, I think the normal run of > plastic end tape options are uggo on oldie bikes. That's why I subscribe to > the stem-to-end religion. > > Peter Adler > Berkeley, CA/USA > > On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 4:34:43 PM UTC-8 eric...@gmail.com wrote: > >> FWIW: The Riv video is not great, camera work is insane and it's really >> hard to follow along. > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3e470889-ceeb-4550-a290-33e91d3efb0cn%40googlegroups.com.
