Tape on Tape

After my morning ride today, I noticed that the bar tape on Purple Haze had come loose.

This tends to happen after a few years when the electrical tape that wraps the end goes a bit gummy and starts sliding around. Luckily the fix is easy, and starts with removing the old electrical tape.

And cleaning up some of the gunk underneath, of course.

Then I can rewrap it in its usual orderly manner and finish the end with some fresh electrical tape.

In this case I switched things up and went for some white electrical tape to match the bar tape a bit better. Of course that meant I had to replace the tape on the other side too.

And of course now that this fresh white electrical tape is sitting next to my not-so-fresh white bar tape, this would be a good time to give it a little cleaning.

Well, it's better but it's not perfect, and this is life with white bar tape: it's only ever white once.