I've been buying up cloth tape as I see things that strike my eye. Next time I need to wrap a bar I'm going to select from my inventory. I even bought some pink Newbaum's because I thought it was so cool that the NFL did a breast cancer awareness thing and wore pink accents on their uniforms for a couple weeks. Almost anything would look good on a color like that. Here are several that I think would look dynamite:
White cloth, clear shellac Black cloth, any shellac Dark blue, clear shellac Orange, clear shellac Red, amber shellac Brown, amber shellac Light grey, clear shellac Dark green, any shellac Two tone--celery green with any of the above, clear shellac On Nov 1, 9:04 am, Mojo <gjtra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My 2001 road custom is my favorite & most ridden > bikehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/79695...@n00/400392025/in/set-7215760747... > It is also has had the most stable parts list. The only changes since > 2001 have been varying saddle bags and a change from Dream to Noodle > bars. But for the last few years, I have grown bored with the over- > engineered brifters. The front brifter is especially silly with only > two positions needed, all out or all in. My one orphaned Simplex left > downtube shifter has been calling, lately screeming, from the parts > box. > > So Sunday before all the Hallow hoopla, I had 4 hours for myself. I > rode 1.5 hours and wrenched for 2.5. Off came the brifters, on went > the now-happy Simplex left and a bar end right. To me the bike just > feels and looks right now. (By the way the bike weighed 1oz less with > this setup compared to Campy Veloce brifters on my Park hanging > scale.) > > Finally to my question: the above picture shows a white cork handlebar > tape with reflector tape built in. It never 'matched' but at least it > was cushy and reflective functional. That was changed a year or so ago > to a cork grey. All I had yesterday was a light foam/cork grey tape. > That didn't look great so I put on a layer of amber shellac, a first > for me. Now it looks like leather tape. Not bad, but not a 'match.' > > Wasn't there a Riv suggestion list for tape and shellac for each of > their main frame colors? I perused the Riv and Cyclofiend Riv websites > with no luck. By the way I can't do cloth. I served my cloth time back > in the 70s; never again thank you. > > Anyway any suggestions? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
