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Top Features of the Ritchey Pro Road Bar Tape

A great feel and grippy bar tape.

Available in a full range of colours.

Road

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Sounds like a component line that should be the top of the line: good enough for pros, right? Well, it is. Our line of Pro components represents race calibre products at prices that will leave you with enough change in your pocket to buy a second jersey. You know, so you have a clean one to wear on the podium. Top materials and manufacturing processes, usually trickled down about a year or two after they come out as WCS. Ritchey Pro - Pro level components, without the professional price tag.

Covering the needs of the full spectrum, from elite competitors to recreational riders, are our WCS, Pro and Comp lines. As technology and materials evolve, so does our product line, allowing us to bring you lighter, stronger parts that deliver category leading performance and value, from WCS Carbon through Comp.

About Bar Tape

Bar tape adds the finishing touches to your pride and joy, you can go for colour coded bar tape or even carbon fibre bar tape, but it's not there just to look good, it actually serves an important function by absorbing road vibration and providing a grippy surface for you to hold onto. Cork tapes offer high levels of road vibration absorption, to get even higher levels of comfort you can use gel pads under the tape on points of regular contact if needed.

About the Ritchey brand

Ritchey is well known for ingenious mountain bikes and parts, but Tom Ritchey was building world class road frames and rethinking every part of the road bike as early as 1974---long before mountain biking came along. After decades of refinement, Ritchey road components are the lightest, strongest and highest quality parts available, and race proven by top professional teams in the world's toughest pro races. Look for Ritchey components on team bikes in the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, World Championships and Spring Classics, as well as countless other races.

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Ritchey Pro Road Bar Tape 4.5 5 165 165

This tape seems to be quite good. It is very comfortable and has a nice look. I got the white tape and it has some natural cork coloured flecks through it which I think looks good. If it is your first time wrapping bar tape check out some videos on youtube first as they make it a lot easier! 14 July 2010

Ritchey Rich After reading other reviews i decided to plump for this one( in red).having never retaped bars before i watched a clip on youtube and it was pretty easy.There was plenty of tape in the pack,2 pieces of rubber for that extra bit of padding and colour coded end plugs. The tape has a nice supple feel to it and after covering about 300 miles with it seems to absorb a lot of vibration. The only slight thing is its not the same design as in the picture,its got the ritchey logo the same colour as the tape so it doesn't stand out but i would still recommend it and its a cheap,quick way to pimp your ride!! 14 July 2010

Good tape Good quality tape, nicely padded and goes on easily. I had no problem with the locking system on the bar ends, they slotted in fine, time will tell if they stay in any better. The tape feels more padded than the old one, but that could just be that after a few years the old one is a bit squashed. 08 July 2010

Ritchey Pro Road Bar Tape Just put the tape on a new set of Cinelli road bars. Comfortable, sticks well, good tape 29 June 2010

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11 answers

do i need to buy 2 packs for the whole bar - ie one for each side?

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1 year, 10 months ago

Jaco101

1I have this question too

Answers

Answer:

No there's plenty in the pack for both sides just don't rush the job of putting it on !

1 year, 6 months ago

kevkav

Answer:

No for a single layer one pack is plenty

1 year, 7 months ago

antarn

Answer:

No one box has everything you need to do both sides.

1 year, 7 months ago

Jay

Darlington,UK

Answer:

No,1 pack ( 2 pieces in a pack )does both sides with a little bit left over.

1 year, 7 months ago

MountainGoat66

Chatham

Answer:

No, you're provided with two reels.

Country : United Kingdom

1 year, 8 months ago

boeuf

Southampton

Answer:

No, there are 2 rolls giving more than enough for both sides.

1 year, 9 months ago

Anonymous

Lincoln

Answer:

No, I just bought one pack. Did both sides.

1 year, 9 months ago

crookedlake

Edinburgh

Answer:

No one pack is fine to wrap a set of 42cm bars

1 year, 9 months ago

foggymp

southampton

Answer:

No, the pack covers both sides of 1 bar!

1 year, 9 months ago

Obesebuthappy

Anglesey, North Wales

Answer:

Depends on how you wrap your bars. One pack contains two rolls .. which is enough to cover the bars - one roll per side.

Country : Australia

1 year, 9 months ago

gardengnome

Shepparton

Answer:

No. All is supplied in the box. Two lots of everything including tape for bars, tape for hoods, finishing tape, gel pads and bar caps.

Country : United Kingdom

1 year, 9 months ago

PeeeJ1978

Birmingham

11 answers

The instructions are not clear

1) It says wrap the tape over ribbon. What ribbon?

2) There are two pieces of PVC tape. I assume these are to finish the inside end of the tape

3) what are the two pads with an adhesive strip for?

It is a pity the instructions ignore the above.

3 years, 7 months ago

markfisher61

1I have this question too

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Answer:

The bits of tape with adhesive are to stick on the bars, behind your STi units (V.Hard to get the tape to cover this bit!!) BEFORE you tape.
The PVC (Usually too short & poor quality) is for finishing the inner ends (I always use a wrap of insulating tape - available in most colours, waterproof, flexible & cheap!)

1 year, 9 months ago

Obesebuthappy

Anglesey, North Wales

Answer:

1) I think the ribbon is the bar tape and tape refers to the end fixing tapes.

2) Yes

3) When wrapping bar tape you usually get a gap when you go around the brakes. These pieces are to cover that gap.

1 year, 11 months ago

Furbi

East London

Top 1000 Contributor

Answer:

I don't know what the 'ribbon' is. However the PVC tape is indeed to finish off the tape at the top of the handlebars.

The two pads with an adhesive strip are to cover the underside of your break levers, ie. where the metal attachment secures the break lever to the bar. Often this bit is hard to cover just by wrapping the tape.

1 year, 11 months ago

JackTheStudent

Bristol

Top 250 Contributor

Answer:

hi. basically you just wrap the tape slightly over lapping nice and tight. start from the bar end and work up. if it has a sticky lineing then remove the cover if it has one. the two little bits go behind the shifters. they go on first then the main role partially overlaps it.

Country : United Kingdom

2 years, 1 month ago

specialized92

preston

Answer:

The ribbons are to cover the brake levers on the bar. Wrapping over these tapes (behind the levers) holds it in place as does the sticky tape.

2 years, 4 months ago

BigBadJohn

Near Glasgow, Scotland

Top 100 Contributor

Answer:

A1. I think when they refer to ribbon, it's actually refering to the handlebar tape... confusing I know.
A2. Wrap the loose end closest to the headset. I used electrical tape instead.
A3. I think you mean the 2inch bits of bar tape (ribbon), they loop around the brake underside. ie, they conceal the fixing around the handlebar and cover any handlebar that doesn't get concealed with the ribbon when you're wrapping. Hope that helps. I also Youtube'd handlebar tape installation and that helped get the right fitting.

Country : Australia

2 years, 6 months ago

Mtbikerian

Perth, Western Australia

Answer:

2) The tape is for finishing the inside end of the bar tape.

3) The two adhesive pads are to fill in the space behind your brake hoods.
Although you can do it without using them.

2 years, 7 months ago

fatmanonabike

Answer:

1 The ribbon is the bar tape, start at the bottom, leaving half a wrap overhanging to push inside the end of the bars for a neater finish (before you push in the plugs) stretch but not too much! and work your way up the bars to the levers, put the 2 pads over the levers where they join the bars, and wind once around so no bars are showing! then work your way up to the centre of the bars, finally cut asmall diagonal across the last loop, so the taps ends neatly, then tape over with any pvc tape or colour to suit the colour of your bike!!

Country : United Kingdom

2 years, 7 months ago

postmanpat

midlands

Answer:

The ribbon is the bar tape!

The two smaller pieces of tape (ribbon) are wrapped around the underside of the shifter body. Pull the shifter hoods forward and simply wrap the tape around the underside of the body covering the shifter bracket. Once the tape is wrapped around the bars / shifters you get a neat comfortable finish.

2 years, 9 months ago

bennettp

Whitehaven Cumbria

Answer:

1. The ribbon is what you assume to be the bar tape (ie, the long bit). This is the stuff you wrap 'round and 'round and' round the handlebars.

2. They are for 'finishing' the ribbon. Where you finish winding the ribbon on the inside of the bars, wrap the tape around for a nice look and to stop the ribbon unraveling.

3. The two pads are to go around the underside of your brake levers/shifters. You wind the ribbon over the top of them.

4. That fact you're asking these questions suggests it may be a good idea to go to your local bike shop and get them to show you how to do your bar tape; might be a lot safer 1st time around.

2 years, 10 months ago

krisandy1

Top 500 Contributor

Answer:

Hi,

usually you'll receive a) two long strips of bar tape (henceforth called ribbon), two short strips of the same ribbon and two strips of black tape (like sellotape but usually black).

3) the two pads with adhesive strips, I assume are the short pieces of ribbon; these are to go halfway round the bars, behind the shifters

These go 3/4 of the way around the bar and touch the shifter housing at each end. This enables you to twist the ribbon around this complicated area, and change direction as you pass the shifters

2) & 1) yes - the tape will secure the end of the ribbon at the centre of the bar, by the stem.

Top tip: leave a good centimetre of tape overhanging the end of the bar so that when you come to put in the bar ends they have something to keep them in. I also find a dab of superglue on the tape helps to keep them in place.

3 years, 7 months ago

SiRush