How not to wrap your bars

So there is always debate.  Some wrap one way, some another, some crazy people think doing a cross-over under and around the hoods bunching things up and changing direction is the way to do.  Others think it is a sign of weakness to use the short bit of extra that comes in the box for the hood area.

Yes.  There is a good bit of tutorials out there on how to tape your bars on the bike.

But last night working on this bike, I just had to take a quick snapshot illustrating why I wrap bars the way I do.

And yes, I know.  Most wicked fastidious riders will change their fancy white tape long before it is close to needing to be changed and that it doesn't matter what direction if you're changing bar tape as frequently as Tilford changes cables (baffling btw - i'm on two years of CX and commuting and road riding on the same wires in 'new' shimano, and it isn't all because of the bassworm).

Photos or it didn't happen, right?

Yeah yeah this is an extreme case but hey, why do it "wrong" in the first place?

Carry on.

At least it is black tape. #approve

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