Bar wrap porn

Tried using the search...this isn't really bike porn, there's a decent thread on tips for wrapping, this thread is for the art.

We all know how a lovely build will look wrong with a bad wrap, wrong colour, bare bars or butchered Ourys on the tops of track drops.

I pulled off what seems to be a decent wrap with some Fizik Microtex soft touch and I have to say it was one of the most satisfying parts of the build. Especially as was the first time I'd wrapped drop bars using gel pads and it is a part of the bike you are in constant interaction with.

Next step when I get the opportunity: learn the harlequin!

But also barwrappornworthy IMO:

Feel free to post your own efforts!

i like this thread :)

I'm so getting Murtle to hook me up with some leather strips to practice ^^^^^

Damn right, love the first pic, like a christmas jumper on your bars!

Whoa what's going on with the above bars^ that rogue brown stip in teh middle

missed that! >>>>>>>>>barwrapantiporrrrrrrrn

bike looks like its going to war :D

apparently it can take a week to do that wrap its so frustrating..

reverse harlequin triple colour wrap

shit just got real.

Nice thread!

reverse harlequin triple colour wrap

shit just got real.

Is someone going to put us out of our misery and post a howto?

Yeah, me: http://www.wastedlife.org/bike/harlequin/index.html

whats that front brake in the tutorial pictures?

i just got a headache reading that, wrapping tape takes me long enough already, that would drive me nuts.

I think once you read through it makes sense. This sums it up pretty well:

both tapes are simply wrapped around the bar in opposite directions with no overlap. In this way, each color is laid in an over/under alternating weave

Christ knows how you do the three-way variant though

Basically the bars are wrapped twice, once by each colour with each colour going in opposite directions. You just have to alternate which one is on top at any point.

I really like the cotton and shellac look but I know it'd look stupid on my modern build. Maybe I can convince my girlfriend to let me have a go at it on her bianchi...

Is someone going to put us out of our misery and post a howto?

Yeah, me: http://www.wastedlife.org/bike/harlequin/index.html

cool.

now how on earth do you do the triple???

Can haz readers wife?