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September 29th, 2018 -------------------- I finally ended up buying some handlebar tape online from the UK a few weeks ago, after being pretty thoroughly disappointed with the range from my LBSes. I got the "superlight classic" tape by Fizik in "honey brown", which looks pretty nice. Before putting tape to bar, I watched a video tutorial from Park Tools. It was focussed on dropbars, naturally, but moustache bars are really not too different in this regard. If anything, they're simpler - it's rare to grip the part of the bar that's inboard of the brake levers on moustache bars, so it's not as critical to reverse the direction of tape wrapping. Obviously applying bar tape neatly and accurately is the kind of thing that one simply has to get better at by practice, so one's first effort is never going to be perfect, and indeed, mine wasn't, in various respects. It is, however, perfectly adequate and I don't think it looks bad at all. You can see a photo here[1]. Most of the imperfections relate to the area around the brake levers, and mostly on the underside, so none of them are obvious in that photo. What is obvious is that the finishing tape is not remotely symmetric, but oh well. Regardless of how neat the whole thing looks, what I can say without hesitation is the bar feels a lot comfier and a lot safer. I can easily grip the bars right near their ends without any sliding, which was not so easy before. This is a big improvement in the usability of the bike and I'm really glad I did this. [1] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/I/~solderpunk/bikes/franken-peugeot/photos/bartape01.jpg