Taping 35mm dia bars

[si_c]

I have 35mm alloy width bars, and they do taper. You shouldn't have any problems taping up to the taper point, my bars are also 46cm c-c so very wide.

 

[Ajax Bay]

I have 35mm alloy width bars

Why did you get 35mm (clamping) bars? Doesn't this limit the stems you can use? Is their performance better (than 31.8mm bars) and if so in what way?

 

[si_c]

Why did you get 35mm (clamping) bars? Doesn't this limit the stems you can use? Is their performance better (than 31.8mm bars) and if so in what way?

They came with the bike, which is a Felt VR, so halfway between a road and cyclo-cross or travel bike. The stem could easily be swapped for a 31.8mm one should I feel the need, but I'd obviously need to change the bars too.

Seems stiff to me, don't have any noticeable flex even when pulling up on the bars fairly hard, so quite different from my 80s steel bikes with 25.4mm bars. I wouldn't want to say it performs better though, just different.

 

[robjh]

You should have enough. Remember to wrap from the inside to out on the drop section(clockwise looking from the saddle) and the opposite direction on the tops.

I've always wrapped it in one single length per side, starting at the bar ends and working inwards. Am I unusual in that?

 

[jefmcg]

more tape would be required to cover 35mm diameter bars vs 31.8 mm diameter bars,

As circumference is proportional to diameter, the maths is easy.
35:31.8 ~= 11:10

So roughly 10% more tape. I easily bin 10% of the roll typically.

 

[Ajax Bay]

So roughly 10% more tape.

I refer the honourable lady to the maths in my post above (post 12). Only a small portion of the taped bar is 35mm so much less than 10% extra is required.

 

[AlanW]

Well the carbon 35mm bars arrived this morning, and very nice they are to, and incredible light!

Oddly enough, but there is a dotted line around the circumference on either side of the bars literally as soon as the straight section of the bars start that states "tape limit"?

Which is suggesting or maybe even recommending that none of the straight section of the bars should have any tape on it at all, how odd?

 

[Ajax Bay]

The carbon bars are 210g. The alloy ones are 278g.
Agree that the 'tape limit' is odd.

 

[AlanW]

How odd?

 

[themosquitoking]

No point in buying bars 68g lighter if you go and spoil it with the weight of the extra tape required to wrap the large bit.