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Looking from the saddle, wrap the left side of the bar (left hand) counterclockwise, the right side
of the bar clockwise. Think of your hands on the drops, your palms on the bars and your fingers
wrapped around the bar. A person tends to rotate their hands towards their fingers. This rotation
will tend to open up the winds of bartape if not done in the correct direction.
MOO, Matt
Mike S. wrote:
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>>I've been wrapping road bars with Cinelli cork for years. Recently, I've seen some conflicting
>>information regarding the direction of the wrapping from the ends to the center of the bars.
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>>The Park Tools website advocates wrapping counterclockwise on the right and clockwise on the
>>left, when observed from behind the bicycle. Barnett's manual and the Cinelli package does the
>>opposite, wrapping to the outside on both sides of the bar, clockwise on the right,
>>counterclockwise on the left.
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>>Oddly, reasons given for both methods are to avoid the tape unravelling, but obviously one method
>>has to be better than another. Care to comment?
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>I read somewhere that you should wrap towards the bike, starting at the bottom. Seems to work, but
>if you wanna go the other way, it should work just as well... The difference will probably be
>around the brake levers.
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>Mike
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Looking from the saddle, wrap the left side of the bar (left hand) counterclockwise, the right side
of the bar clockwise. Think of your hands on the drops, your palms on the bars and your
fingers wrapped around the bar. A person tends to rotate their hands towards their fingers.
This rotation will tend to open up the winds of bartape if not done in the correct
direction.<br> <br> MOO,<br> Matt<br> <br> Mike S. wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"
cite="midN_dpa.4185$366.225@fed1read06"> <pre wrap="">"Gary Kamieneski" <a
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[email protected]</a>... </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I've
been wrapping road bars with Cinelli cork for years. Recently, I've seen some conflicting
information regarding the direction of the wrapping from the ends to the center of the bars.
The Park Tools website advocates wrapping counterclockwise on the right and clockwise on the
left, when observed from behind the bicycle. Barnett's manual and the Cinelli package does the
opposite, wrapping to the outside on both sides of the bar, clockwise on the right,
counterclockwise on the left.
Oddly, reasons given for both methods are to avoid the tape unravelling, but obviously one method
has to be better than another. Care to comment? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> I read
somewhere that you should wrap towards the bike, starting at the bottom. Seems to work, but if you
wanna go the other way, it should work just as well... The difference will probably be around the
brake levers.
Mike
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