I picked up some Newbaums tape recently with plans to try cloth...once again. I've done this a few times in the past with different bars, but never been happy with the result for two reasons. First off I found it too thin for comfort, and on top of that could never get it wrapped well around the levers. I always ended up with gaps in one place and all bunched up in others. This really bugs me because I pride myself with normal cork wrap. I can wrap super clean and even with the "cheater" piece or without using the figure eight approach. Using the narrow, less stretchy cloth I end up with a mess. Ive tried adding a cheater, and even a double figure eight that just created a big mass.
I have been mentally preparing a plan of attack while waiting on my repaint. I'm going back to my tried and true mustache bar with old dia-comp non-aero levers. My thinking was this: If I tighten down the levers on the bar, then place some tape over the clamp to hold it in place while I back off the lever body completely, I would have a much smaller obstacle to wrap around with the cloth. Could I essentially leave the threaded portion of the clamp sticking out and then bolt the body back down on top of it once done? I plan to pre wrap the ends of the bar up to the levers with some left over cateye cloth to solve the cush issue. The nittos plethora of curves dont help this issue, but the smaller bodies of the old diacomp do a little. FYI, I do not wrap the shifter cables coming from the bar ends, I just leave them dangle. Dumb idea? Anyone have a better technique for going around the brake lever body bolted in place? Pictures, procedures, postulations? Oh and before you suggest it, I attempted the Jim Varnum harlequin method once....yea...took me a few beers and some therapy to get over that episode in the garage. (ok...the therapy was a joke. the beers weren't.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
