Dave Kahn wrote:
> Pete Biggs wrote:
>
>> But my honest thought is: don't bother. Shouldn't the priority be to
>> make the tape *feel* good? Doing strange things to make it look fancy is
>> bound to spoil that.
>
>
> Not necessarily. With old style cloth tape many people would double-wrap
> in any case to improve the feel of the bars. The interlaced pattern
> might well give a better grip and feel then two layers wrapped the same
> way.
>
My initial motivation was to have double wrapped hooks on my tourer as
last year on long (>7 hours) rides my left hand started to get unusual
pains. My thickest track mitts cured the problem but I like to ride
without such items sometimes, truth be known I sometimes forget/lose
them and can't arsed to go and fetch them. So I thought double wraping
might be worth a try and thus thought about trying an unusual
method/pattern. I may just try in on the straight hooks, perhaps with
reflecttive 'chav' tape salvaged from an old navvy jacket.