Pet hates when buying 2nd hand Bikes

[Gravity Aided]

I am no expert on bar tape but there is certainly a right & wrong way to hang loo paper.
If i go round someones house and its facing the wall i turn it round.
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Good to see a little discipline and orthodoxy getting back into the mix nowadays.

 

[fossyant]

If you wrap from the centre outwards, the overlap is on the wrong side and as your hands slip forward on the tops, the exposed edge will roll forwards. The professional way is from the ends to the centre.

This !! Cork tape is better end to centre. Careful use of electrical tape to finish off and jobs a good en.

 

[bikingdad90]

My pet hate is when you go to see a bike and the owner has omitted to mention that the bike is full of scratches which detract from the appeal of the bike.

 

[Gravity Aided]

This !! Cork tape is better end to centre. Careful use of electrical tape to finish off and jobs a good en.

What, no twine?

 

[Sharky]

When cloth tape was the fashion, I would have started at centre and tucked the end of the tape into the bar. Now use cork tape which is too bulky to tuck into the bar, so now start at the end and use sticky tape to finish off in the centre.

 

[biggs682]

Not as bad as when the frame arrives and the seat post is jammed / welded to the frame......................

Shaun

very true @midlife its worse than finding a dent the seller didnt know that exsisted

 

[Fab Foodie]

Always start from the bar ends...

Where the good beer is?

 

[Dogtrousers]

When I learned to tape bars in the 70s it was always from the inside, finishing at the bar end and sealing off with the plug. No sticky required. Tape was normally fabric. On my MAMIL rebirth some years ago I found that, along with other modern pointless flim flam like indexed gears, bar tape had got thicker and the accepted method was outside in, with the annoying sticky tape.

I tried wrapping modern fat bar tape the "right" way and I found that it doesn't sit as smoothly as fabric tape, and the edges get scuffed up if you do it the right way. So that's why the modern orthodoxy is to do things the wrong way, because the wrong way is right for fat tape on fat bars.

Usual disclaimer applies. I am an idiot and this may well be all cobblers.

 

[raleighnut]

When I learned to tape bars in the 70s it was always from the inside, finishing at the bar end and sealing off with the plug. No sticky required. Tape was normally fabric. On my MAMIL rebirth some years ago I found that, along with other modern pointless flim flam like indexed gears bar tape had got thicker and the accepted method was outside in, with the annoying sticky tape.

I tried wrapping modern fat bar tape the "right" way and I found that it doesn't sit as smoothly as fabric tape, and the edges get scuffed up if you do it the right way. So that's why the modern orthodoxy is to do things the wrong way, because the wrong way is right for fat tape on fat bars.

Usual disclaimer applies. I am an idiot and this may well be all cobblers.

Not 'cobblers' at all, very succinctly put.

Fat 'cushioned' bar-tape

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

When I learned to tape bars in the 70s it was always from the inside, finishing at the bar end and sealing off with the plug. No sticky required. Tape was normally fabric. On my MAMIL rebirth some years ago I found that, along with other modern pointless flim flam like indexed gears bar tape had got thicker and the accepted method was outside in, with the annoying sticky tape.

I tried wrapping modern fat bar tape the "right" way and I found that it doesn't sit as smoothly as fabric tape, and the edges get scuffed up if you do it the right way. So that's why the modern orthodoxy is to do things the wrong way, because the wrong way is right for fat tape on fat bars.

Usual disclaimer applies. I am an idiot and this may well be all cobblers.

To be fair, I don't remember tyre pressures being as high as today, probably why we got away with fabric tape.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I must admit that I've put gel tape on my 80s Dawes, because the skinny bars hurt my weedy fat bar acclimatised hands on long rides

 

[raleighnut]

To be fair, I don't remember tyre pressures being as high as today, probably why we got away with fabric tape.

Also steel frames (and forks) transmitted far less 'road buzz' through.

 

[DEFENDER01]

Good to see a little discipline and orthodoxy getting back into the mix nowadays.

There is normally an easy answer to solve our problems.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Isn't it funny that, besides the American Flag, the only other flag you seem to see on duck tape is the Union Jack?

 

[coco69]

This sn OCD thread?