I picked up some Newbaums tape recently with plans to try cloth...once
again. I've done this a few times in the past with different bars, but
never been happy with the result for two reasons. First off I found it too
thin for comfort, and on top of that could never get it wrapped well around
th
I recently switched to starting from both ends and ending at the brale levers.
So long as I'm usng cloth tape and shellacing, I don't imagine I'll ever do it
any other way from now on - works great.
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IIRC, Grant had an article in a long ago RR about taping bars.
I use a separate 3" strip around each lever and behind the bar -- hold it
on with a spot of glue or something -- and then wind tape around the lever
body from the bottom -- and hope that the roll is long enough. But I rarely
use cloth
I have the same basic setup... non aero levers on mustache bars. The
outcome of my wrapping might not be as clean as you'd like, but I used two
cheaters:
http://imgur.com/a/1zB7t
I've gone under the clamp before as well, so I can say that does work, but
I wasn't that careful this time.
On Fri
Dang Rex...I'd say that's pretty clean! I'm going to tackle this today or
tomorrow.
I DID have a bit of a scary episode with my shellac. I wanted to check how
much I had and give it a stir, and when I barely applied pressure to the
lid with my opener it exploded off the can with a huge BOOM! I'
Thanks, and good luck [assuming you haven't started yet!] :-)
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:41 AM, jinxed wrote:
> Dang Rex...I'd say that's pretty clean! I'm going to tackle this today or
> tomorrow.
>
> I DID have a bit of a scary episode with my shellac. I wanted to check how
> much I had and g
