Fitting interesting new bartape....
salsarider79
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I sold my old fixed wheel bike last year and have wanted another one ever since. So, last week on a day off work and with nothing better to do, I had a little rummage around my garage (my garage resembles a junk shop of old bikes...). I found an old fixed rear wheel and pulled my Dawes Shadow frame down, and started to build up a fixie bike. I built it with a flat bar just to ride it to work (a bike shop!). While at work I picked up a lovely set of drop bars which I fitted. So far this bike has cost me nothing. It really was built from parts I had laying around in the garage!
Of course with fitting drop bars, I needed to find some bar tape. With the only rule I set myself was that the bike should cost me nothing, so I now needed to find some bar tape for free. I'm all for re-using old bar tape, but we didn't have any to hand. I searched around to see what I could use to tape the bars....then I figured out an answer - Cut the valve out from an old inner tube, then cut along the length, Voila, free bar tape! 8) (Hopefully the link works. I don't do computers...
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http://506094094635580956.weebly.com
BTW, skinny racing tubes work best. Two wraps of that is enough to provide a comfortable handlebar, suitably hardwearing, waterproof and best of all, free!
Anyone else come with a different idea like this....?
Of course with fitting drop bars, I needed to find some bar tape. With the only rule I set myself was that the bike should cost me nothing, so I now needed to find some bar tape for free. I'm all for re-using old bar tape, but we didn't have any to hand. I searched around to see what I could use to tape the bars....then I figured out an answer - Cut the valve out from an old inner tube, then cut along the length, Voila, free bar tape! 8) (Hopefully the link works. I don't do computers...
)http://506094094635580956.weebly.com
BTW, skinny racing tubes work best. Two wraps of that is enough to provide a comfortable handlebar, suitably hardwearing, waterproof and best of all, free!
Anyone else come with a different idea like this....?
FCN 3 or 4 on road depending on clothingjedster wrote:Just off to contemplate my own mortality and inevitable descent into decrepedness.
FCN 8 off road because I'm too old to go racing around.
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FCN 8 off road because I'm too old to go racing around.
But I'd be worried in case I got a handlebar puncture. You carry a spare tube for this?
:P
I think (hope) DesWeller was being tongue in cheek.
Personally, it's great to see things being reused rather than just dumped in landfill and also bikes being used as a practical means of transport rather than delicate carbon uber-expensive status symbols.
Plus anything fixed gets my vote.
On the bar tape I think I'll stick to Fizik Micro, but looks a whole lot better than I was expecting.
Hey, I'm all for the fringe. I was just mentioning that this forum is pretty vanilla in that respect. It's certainly not the only one I visit!
Anyway, riding for fun, commuting by bike, fixing and selling bikes doesn't make you a member of the fringe round here, but creative recycling does. Things like telling people how you made your own dynamo lights just doesn't happen in this neck of the internet
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