selle ITALIA Smootape Classica Handlebar Tape

I love thin leather bar tape on vintage bikes and Selle Italia delivers perfection for this retro grouch.I wish they offered it in a dark wine color but the red will do for now. Sun,sweat and dirt will age it soon enough.The brown is fantastic looking and has a softer texture similar to suede while the red is smooth with a glossy sheen.Both wrap easily and offer a great feel to the handlebars.Ciao Baby!

I guess I'm the first to review this... The description says "Leather" at least 3 times, but it is not cowhide, rather regular foam tape. The price is in line with genuine leather, but it is not. I sent it back.

Super thin bar tape, which I really like. It will tear if you stretch it too much. Looks great and feels great.

Comfortable grip, easy to apply. Provides lasting comfort and grip, used for 50 rides so far.

My previous tape has all been with a stick on backing and this tape had a glue that was well past useful, so I searched around and found a few articles on non adhesive bar tape. Useful instructions: Start at the end and wrap it super tight, leaving about half the tape off the end (for the plug) and go around about 3 times. Use a little masking tape to hold it in place, and put in the end plug. That will secure the bottom well enough. After that, it's just about using nice, even tension and keeping things nice and snug. It's easier than you think. Keep that masking tape around to hold things in place when you need to pause to figure things out (like around the hoods) The upside is that mistakes are easy to correct. Nothing sticky to worry about. You should get more stretch out of the tape, too, which makes things smoother in the end. This tape has adhesive but I pulled it all off as it's better and tighter in the end. If you're double wrapping, it is long enough for this and could need a small amount cut off the end. I haven't yet used the bike but the colour may come off and I'm not looking forward to this, as it may occur.

Nach kürzester Zeit zerfällt das Band in seine Einzelteile, das Leder zerfällt wie nasses Papier :( Für den Preis absolut nicht fair in meinen Augen, wenn das Leder stabil wäre super —> schöne Optik, so wirklich fahren kann man das nicht. Werde versuchen eine Erstattung zu bekommen :(

Sehr angenehm am Lenker und sieht einfach nur TOP aus! Habe es an einem restaurierten Renner verbaut und es wertet das gute Stück ungemein auf!

スウェードぽくいい感じなんだけど色落ちすごいのと商品が古いみたいで劣化してる気がする…というのは前に同じ物で白を買ったんだけどそちらは長さが2０㎝長くてこちらは短いです長さを比べてみてもやはり短かったですパッケージも付いてないマークがありました。

ho acquistato il prodotto ..volevo che fosse uguale alla foto e quindi di pelle lucida !!!prodotto ricevuto in pelle scamosciata....non adatto alle mie esigenze...consegna veloce.. ma restituito articolo.se mi garantisce di averlo in pelle come richiesto lo compro !!!