How to REVERSE wrap your bartape

Reverse wrapping your bars allows you to wrap your bars without the need of unsightly electrical tape on your top bar. Follow the steps to create a nice and clean cockpit!

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[ValentinDumitru]

Starting to wrap your bar tape from the top has the effect that when your hand rubs towards the hoods it will hang on the edge of the tape, starting to peel it. If you start from the bottom, your hand movement will be in the same direction with the tape edge and not do anything to it. There is a reason why practically everybody else on youtube advises to start from the bottom.

[roblake]

Nice video 👍. I’ve always wrapped mine this way since the 80’s including when I was club racing. I found that it is less likely for the tape to move and separate through heavy use. People saying you catch the edge when sliding on and off the hoods - I’ve never found this to be an issue, but then again I only ride on the hoods for hills. I have had arguments with people though trying to tell me this way is ‘wrong’ 😂. I also tried wrapping the top half this way down to the brake levers, and the bottom half the conventional way also terminating at the levers, securing the ends around the levers with electrical tape which gets hidden by the hoods.

[destk]

That was super good wrapping with super good instructions. You even touched on the "orientation" subject. 👍👍

[skinnikus]

I am so happy to see this! I always wrapped my bars like this in the '90s until I was told it was "wrong". I hate the e-tape, I'm going back to the good 'ol days!

[LiquidNS]

I didn't even know there a something called a "hood mount tape" I always thought that peice was just like an sample or something! omg learned something new!

[georgetabacco]

You gave one of the best presentations I’ve seen !!!!

[cyclingmilan]

Very nice video, and very clean.
That there is only one way to wrap bar tape, is a myth, and its time for that myth to go. People even get mad when you wrap your bartape differently.

[joelyons]

excellent and detailed video didn't want to start wrappin my bars till I was comefortable, I have been practicing using an old inner tube (needs must and it's great for getting to grips with the process) cheers for post and subbed !

[Justin-zvcm]

I've started wrapping from the top down, but I start with the tape edge pointing forward on the underside of the bar. This way, it keeps my hands from catching the edges of each layer and I won't pull the tape up over time.

[studiobross]

Yes! Just looking for this vid. Thanks Nik!

[micno]

Very well explained! Time for me to try my first wrap...

[scottwhittet]

the "reverse wrap" works better with tape that has a thin edge so as to not peel with hands sliding down around the hoods in use.

[byes]

What is the advantage of ' reverse' when compare with ' non-reverse' ？

[JibbaJabber]

Fantastic. Super simple display and description 👍

[hectorparada]

i find it reverse much easier! Thank you

[Killswitch]

Now do this with Di2 plug in the bar end .

[friedhelmschroter]

@ Son Of A Cyclist
You do start the wrap direction front to back. With your wrap method, that is rotating all along the handlebar always in the same direction -no reversal of rotation direction around the brake levers, this leads to ideal direction on the rather small/short top side, but opposite to ideal rotation at the bottom (on the right bottom side wrap rotation should ideally be clock-wise, on the left bottom side wrap rotation should rather be counter-clock-wise). Seeing this situation I have following 3 questions:
1) Would you see any problem to start your wrap in opposite direction (form back to front)?
Background: I think it is more important to keep the ideal wrap rotation direction at the bottom than to keep it on the top.
2) How long time did you drive the old bar tape (storage time/roughly estimated actual riding time)?
3) The rotation force on the bottom is in my image much higher than the rotation force on top, but timewise you may ride much more with your hands on top: Did you see any signs on your tape showing some degradation in optical look on top or the usually much more stressed bottom?

An additional question may be:
Have you used any other type of bar tape and if so, were there noticeable differences tape to tape?

[kaa]

How to reverse ? i was wondering what was the meaning of "to reverse" for a bar tape ...okay thank you that means starting from the top...that makes a good finish without the need of the extra tape but the pressure of the grip from up to down will worn the tape quicker making it peel away. One can too try to avoid the top tape piece by cutting the bar tape so it ends cleanly on the underside of the bar and glueing it.

[davidide]

Nice wrap, and good clear instructions.

[.mm]

Clean look, but not for all type of tape, only works with thin and rather firm edged tapes