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Cost of bar tape
Postby Lots of steel bikes » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:06 pm
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby gururug » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:59 pm
TCO taken into consideration, it's pretty cheap.
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Postby redrover3 » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:50 am
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby Lots of steel bikes » Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:39 pm
redrover3 wrote:Or, if you are a bit of a tight____ like me, $2.66 for cork tape delivered from Hong Kong. Will tell you what the quality is like when it arrives. It's been three weeks now.
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Will be keen to hear how it is. You couldn't get much cheaper than that.
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Postby BRLVR.v2 » Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:50 am
redrover3 wrote:Or, if you are a bit of a tight____ like me, $2.66 for cork tape delivered from Hong Kong. Will tell you what the quality is like when it arrives. It's been three weeks now.
Tony
No adhesive backing, no brake lever patches, and the thickness of a sanitary pad. I use it on bikes I build to flip. Fubar is good and cheapish on ebay lO
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby Dan » Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:21 am
redrover3 wrote:Or, if you are a bit of a tight____ like me, $2.66 for cork tape delivered from Hong Kong. Will tell you what the quality is like when it arrives. It's been three weeks now.
Tony
I like to use long strips of chux finished off with electrical tape. Keeps your hands clean, too.
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby cray- » Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:35 pm
diggerdantheman wrote:redrover3 wrote:Or, if you are a bit of a tight____ like me, $2.66 for cork tape delivered from Hong Kong. Will tell you what the quality is like when it arrives. It's been three weeks now.
Tony
I like to use long strips of chux finished off with electrical tape. Keeps your hands clean, too.
Chux? Ooooooer you fancy brand name hipster. I use paper towels stolen from public bathrooms and adhere it with used chewing gum found on the bottom of park benches.
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby wqlava1 » Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:52 pm
BurtO wrote:I just got some of that $2.66 bar tape from Honkers, and its not bad, no sticky on the back but does the job fine. I'll be buying it again for my resto's.
I used some double sided tape that I had in the shed about a half inch wide, one piece on the top of the drop tubing going from the end of the bar up to the start of the hood, and another from where the bar tape will finish in the centre back across the top almost to the side of the hood. And of course same the other side. It seemed to give a bit of extra cushioning. Definitely enough to keep it in place for a couple of thousand km so far.
It seems pretty cheap and nasty when you first work out it's got no built in sticky, but it lasts reasonably well.
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby Dan » Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:21 pm
cray- wrote:diggerdantheman wrote:redrover3 wrote:Or, if you are a bit of a tight____ like me, $2.66 for cork tape delivered from Hong Kong. Will tell you what the quality is like when it arrives. It's been three weeks now.
Tony
I like to use long strips of chux finished off with electrical tape. Keeps your hands clean, too.
Chux? Ooooooer you fancy brand name hipster. I use paper towels stolen from public bathrooms and adhere it with used chewing gum found on the bottom of park benches.
I'd do same, but thrifted chewing gum comes in handy when refining the pencil moustache...
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby Wal42 » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:59 pm
I have a roll of genuine Benotto bar tape coming from Europe & it's only costing just over $20, don't know why you lot think it's so dear?
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby Lots of steel bikes » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:05 pm
Wal42 wrote:Not sure where you guys are looking?
I have a roll of genuine Benotto bar tape coming from Europe & it's only costing just over $20, don't know why you lot think it's so dear?
Proportionally dear. And I'm tight!
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby Wal42 » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:23 pm
Cinelli cork tape $22 delivered
Sram Supercork tape $17.50 delivered
Colnago padded cork tape $32 delivered
Deda deluxe vented cork tape $32 delivered
Prologo plain touch tape $20 delivered
BBB bar tape $12 delivered
No-name from Hong Kong or China (there's lot's of them) under $3 delivered
Fark, you guys must be tighter than a fishes rectum.

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Re: Cost of bar tape
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Re: Cost of bar tape
Postby Dan » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:25 am
ldrcycles wrote:Just FYI, 'Clarks' branded cork bar tape is rubbish, got some from the LBS a few months back for $15 or thereabouts, it's thin and very hard.
try the chux Lochie - I was only half joking...
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