Need advice from tarty MTBers
a.palmer
Posts: 504
Right, I know us MTBers are mostly big tarts when it comes to our bikes and colours coding, so I thought I'd ask you lot. Just bought myself a road bike [don't flame] and the bar tape is a little tatty. So I ask you, do I go for white tape again, or change it up and go red? Thoughts please.
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whiteole ginger b*ll*cks / the ginger ninja0
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easy. double weave white and red (alternate).0
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White if you're going to keep it clean, if you're not just get black. Dirty bar tape looks rubbish.0
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blister pus wrote:easy. double weave white and red (alternate).0
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Watching the Pro races this year, white seems to be the 'in' colour. Which is why I have black on mine... 8)
If you're going with red, have a look at getting matching hoods for the levers as well for extra tartyness.
EDIT: Nice bike BTW...0 -
No, don't! The hoods will clash and it'll look gopping!0
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Yer leave the hoods but go red tape and Michelin pro3 tyre,s with red inserts
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Nah! Coloured tyres look cheap. When it comes to colour, less is more IMO. Clean white bar tape and saddle will make it look good. Dirty white bar tape and saddle will look crap. If you can't keep it clean, get black, or have a bike that looks cheap/tatty!0
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silver anyone?0
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the rule in road bikes seems to be...whiteWhenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
what about the top one of these
or this one even
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blister pus wrote:easy. double weave white and red (alternate).
It might remind everyone of a barbers pole, but I think that'd look epic (and especially tarty!)
8)"I have a plan, a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox." (from the Blackadder TV series)0 -
White all the way for me.
(unless its the same shade of red as the cages and go faster stripes - red hoods would throw another shade of red in there as well)Cheers
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As you have a white saddle, the bar tape is required to be white as well.0
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Red.0
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red, but white hoods.
(argh, you're drawing me into tartiness, I need to go and get covered im mud :evil: )0 -
Quick [and terrible] edit of what it might look like. I can't chose.
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White, red would be too much. You already have enough red "accent" 8)http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/ ... lurLT2.jpg
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how about red and black tape, alternating?0