Bar tape perfectionism

[KneesUp]

I've haven't wrapped handlebars for a while, and I was never much good at it. However, having bought some new bars (slightly wider and a little deeper, since you ask) I had to give it a go last night.

I did the right hand side first, and considering I haven't done many, it came out ok. Then I did the left, and it's amazing how much difference one side of practice makes - the left is loads neater. But because of that, the tape ran out a centimetre or two earlier than on the other side. So on the right I have quite neat tape that goes right up to the cross lever, and on the left I have very neat tape that stops almost an inch short of the cross lever bracket.

Would you re-wrap the bars?

 

[ianrauk]

I would re-wrap...

 

[steve50]

re-wrap.

 

[EltonFrog]

Re-wrap and keep doing it until was perfect And re-wrap again to make sure.

 

[Cuchilo]

re-wrap

 

[AlanW]

I spend more time than is healthy wrapping and rewrapping bar tape, just to get both sides equal. But the bottom line is that life is really to short and in less than a weeks time, you wont even notice it!! If only I could convince myself that.......

 

[winjim]

Move the cross lever .

 

[jefmcg]

I wouldn't, because they'd be wonky in 2 delightfully different ways. If I rewrapped them, I'd discover a 3rd and 4th way to badly wrap bars. However, if I felt I had mastered it on the second one, I'd rewrap - because looking at the mismatched sides would drive me crazy. But not as crazy as rewrapping it 20 times!

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I don't even understand the question. Go back and re-do it now! Some mothers' children.....tut...tut.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Put it into Halfords to get it wrapped properly.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

This thread has just confirmed what I have long suspected




19 of you (and counting) are clearly a bunch of perverts!!

 

[stephec]

You also need to pull up some nettles and flail your buttocks with them for such shoddy work.

 

[Nibor]

My wife is a dab hand at wrapping bars and more of a perfectionist than I will ever be solife is good.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

I always by non self-adhesive tape for this very reason

 

[ayceejay]

If the two sides look good and it is only that the tape ends unevenly try this short cut: overwrap the ends with electrical tape (go beyond where you want it to finish. Take a ruler and measure out from the stem to an equal point and mark it. Then take an exacto and cut through electrical tape and bar tape, being careful not to cut through any cables or score the handlebars. Then put one or two turns of electrical tape around the cut ends.