It’s about twine
This guy has really bad taste in music so I’d recommend hitting the mute button. Also the video is completely out of focus but you get the idea. Obviously the key is starting with the loop that you cover with the wrap. Important. A step that was missed when someone showed me how to wrap my bars and they have been coming undone slowly ever since.
i’ve got three.
1. devendra banhart SUCKS…but the ladies seem to like him, so you might want to stash that in your mental mcguyver box.
2. why would you want to do that to your bike, y’know aside from the usual (and questionable) aesthetic reasons?
3. can i lump this whole twinin’-yer-bike thing in with steampunkery, and thereby chalk it up to incredibly labor intensive anachronistic ornamentation?
i think twine is decidedly non-victorian in aesthetic nature. especially lumpy hemp twine. its supposedly a sailing thing, so maybe there is a pirate connection. sailors finish fat rope ends with twine to keep it from fraying.
starmer:
the loop thing i didnt learn until i saw a step by step. i still dont use it though. i use a small drop of elmers on a weird knot i use to finish it. and also, i usually shellac the twine, so there’s that as glue. also you didnt use twine, which is sacreligious, but rather a bright orange sythetic substitute. when we do your falcon, we’ll do it right…just gotta get you some cotton bar tape…buahahaha.
dave…come down for this ride.
Yeah Dave, you should come down. Bonus points for anachronistic, I had to use a dictionary on that one.
I think I have to agree twine and cotton bar tape is lame. I’m going to use pig intestines on the falcon. I sourced an butcher who can hook me up real cheap. It’s either that or tripe which has the built in grip.
cotton is for people who sand thier palms to make themselves tougher.