Protecting Bar Tape

[Brandane]

Everything else your hands should be fairly clean.

You don't do much wet weather riding with rim brakes then? That black gunk makes chain oil look like fairy dust .

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You don't do much wet weather riding with rim brakes then? That black gunk makes chain oil look like fairy dust .

Nope disc brakes

 

[fossyant]

Like fitting fancy coloured grips to MTBs. They look great until you've ridden 5 yards.

 

[Brandane]

Like fitting fancy coloured grips to MTBs. They look great until you've ridden 5 yards.

I used to have white grips on my MTB, that was a bad idea and I was glad I had kept the original black ones.
The road bike had black bar tape on it until I decided to add a splash of colour to it a few weeks ago. Looks nice just now but I may well live to regret this too:

 

[si_c]

Clean your bike before you work on it. No seriously.