next question - cloth bar tape?

On Monday, July 15, 2013 8:13:50 PM UTC-4, datakoll wrote:
BALDERDASH !



any street level run of the mill baboon will know less curvature adn more damping is more comfortable than less. And allows more control engaging more and less cramped nerve/muscle interactions.



My Raleigh had the usual less is faster and more profitable bar. I developed - with foam on - hand pain.



A $10 Nbar ergobar arived, installed with foam, rode for a mile and LO ! the pain disappeared. Amazing. PAIN,



https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&t...w=1152&bih=613

Don't know who or what you're replying to.

If you have small hands/short fingers and thick padding you may not even be able to easily reach the brake levers let alone be able to get a good grip on those levers.

Cheers

Frank Krygowski wrote:
:On Monday, July 15, 2013 2:21:57 PM UTC-4, Nate Nagel wrote:
: I do have some fancy
:
: cork/rubber bar tape that I've been meaning to put on my Cannondale for
:
: ages but I never got around to it...

:Well, for what it's worth, I really like that stuff. Over the years I've used the thin plastic stuff, cloth, foam, and cork/rubber. The latter's definitely my favorite.

Mie too. I shellac it, which takes a long time, because it tends to
absorb more shellac than the cloth does, so it takes many coats. The
shellac makes it lasat a lot longer, and keeps it looking clean
longer. I get a year or so out of a set of tape, it tends to get beat
up in city parking. I need to redo the shellac on the bikes.....

--
It makes me feel good knowing that with extensive training, weight
loss and a large capital expenditure, I can fly further than a
flightless chicken. -- Jay Beattie.

OK what ya gonna sleep on ?

cork or foam ?

your shoe liners ?

chairs ?


helmet liners ?

steering wheel covers ?

hi jump pits ?

wresling mats ?

rachet handles ?

trans pacific aircraft seats ?

car seats ?

luggage liners ?


bicycle bars ?

ahh Sir Ridesasloat ? how many of yore friends have tiny hands ?

adjusting on a larger diameter soft surface bar would roll up easier than a hard smaller diameter bar.

? oxcart !

On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:30:55 PM UTC-4, datakoll wrote:
OK what ya gonna sleep on ?

ahh Sir Ridesasloat ? how many of yore friends have tiny hands ?

adjusting on a larger diameter soft surface bar would roll up easier than a hard smaller diameter bar.

? oxcart !

A lot of people i know have small hands especially women.

Cheers

On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 4:07:58 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:30:55 PM UTC-4, datakoll wrote:

OK what ya gonna sleep on ?



ahh Sir Ridesasloat ? how many of yore friends have tiny hands ?



adjusting on a larger diameter soft surface bar would roll up easier than a hard smaller diameter bar.



? oxcart !



A lot of people i know have small hands especially women.



Cheers

............

and so are these small handed women riding bicycles ?

a large enough mass of small handed people to back universal use age of an inferior product ?

Beattie, are these riders guilty or what ?

On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 4:59:50 PM UTC-7, datakoll wrote:
On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 4:07:58 PM UTC-4, Sir Ridesalot wrote:

On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:30:55 PM UTC-4, datakoll wrote:



OK what ya gonna sleep on ?

ahh Sir Ridesasloat ? how many of yore friends have tiny hands ?

adjusting on a larger diameter soft surface bar would roll up easier than a hard smaller diameter bar.

? oxcart !

A lot of people i know have small hands especially women.

Cheers
and so are these small handed women riding bicycles ?

a large enough mass of small handed people to back universal use age of an inferior product ?

Beattie, are these riders guilty or what ?

My legal opinion is that, in Florida, Sir Ridesalot can stand his ground. Do not f*** with his cloth tape!

Personally, I like cork and rubber and found that cloth gets slimy and gross after a fairly short time in the PNW. I have also grown to dislike small diameter bars. They hurt my tender palms, even with gloves -- so fatty tape is good. Frank is right -- pure cork can break faster than cloth and look really bad (like on my commuter, which is a mix of cork and electrical tape). The rubbery stuff is more durable but more expensive.

The worst tape ever in the PNW is Bennoto Cello-tape -- even if it is "used by all cycling champions." http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-BENOTTO-...item4173d7c598

That stuff is slippery when wet. I was riding on the tops with that stuff many years ago, hit a bump, my hands slipped off, and I went careening across a major arterial before I regained my grip. Scared the crap out of me. Luckily there was no approaching traffic. That road is now perpetually crowded, and if I slipped today, I would get smashed -- although, statistically, I would only skin my knee.

-- Jay Beattie.

FLORIDA LAW STATES CLEARLY: deliberate and conscious public use ages of inferior, dysfunctional or obsolete transportation system equipment are grounds for liability in civil actions for damages.

On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:22:26 AM UTC-4, datakoll wrote:
FLORIDA LAW STATES CLEARLY: deliberate and conscious public use ages of inferior, dysfunctional or obsolete transportation system equipment are grounds for liability in civil actions for damages.


Evidence may be incriminating…?

http://www.universalcycles.com/shopp...p?category=831

http://www.universalcycles.com/search.php?q=foam

On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:59:43 AM UTC-4, datakoll wrote:
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:22:26 AM UTC-4, datakoll wrote:

FLORIDA LAW STATES CLEARLY: deliberate and conscious public use ages of inferior, dysfunctional or obsolete transportation system equipment are grounds for liability in civil actions for damages.





Evidence may be incriminating…?



http://www.universalcycles.com/shopp...p?category=831



http://www.universalcycles.com/search.php?q=foam

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requires a questionnaire !

On Monday, 15 July 2013 22:34:58 UTC+1, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, July 15, 2013 5:12:39 PM UTC-4, Lou Holtman wrote:

Frank Krygowski wrote:



On Monday, July 15, 2013 2:21:57 PM UTC-4, Nate Nagel wrote:



I do have some fancy







cork/rubber bar tape that I've been meaning to put on my Cannondale for







ages but I never got around to it...







Well, for what it's worth, I really like that stuff. Over the years I've



used the thin plastic stuff, cloth, foam, and cork/rubber. The latter's



definitely my favorite.







- Frank Krygowski







I don't understand why someones prefers cloth bartape over cork based



bartape.







--



Lou



Small hands prefer smaller diameter bars thus the thinner cloth tape is preferred over the thicker cork stuff.


And that. My Cinelli bars, I believe are a little larger diameter than what was standard, and my hands a little snall, cloth tape allowed me to get a good grip in the hooks with my wrists out.



I remember that back in the days before cork or gel tape that some riders would cut down a bicycle inner tube and wrap the bars with that and then put the cloth tape over the inner tube wrap.



Hockey tape seems o work pretty well as a bar tape too.



Cheers