Sorry for changing the thread, but wanted to refer to this photo.
I see you have installed the Trip Machine leather wrap grips. I've put these on my cafe racer...they are just great!
I also noticed you used some sort of copper wire to make a retainer to hold the grip from unraveling(I think?)
At first I though you wrapped the leather form center to outboard, but by closer observation, I see you did it from outboard toward center. The latter, I believe is the preferred way. From years with racing bicycles, I learned you must always wrap bars from outside to center, or else you will eventually curl up all the edges as you move and slide your hands around the bars. Probably not so critical on a motorcycle where your hands tend to stay pretty much put in one place.
FYI....couple of finer points FWIW.....to retain the wrap, I got some dark brown, waxed cord, from a crafts store. I made 5 wraps around the end of the leather to hold it in place. I did what is called a wipping knot, to hold the cord. Looks nice.
I also tapered the leather strip at both ends, (at the start of the wrap, and again at the finish) to get it to lie down perfectly flat. The Trip Machine video, (and Fillingham's too) show the leather wrap just ending, squared off, and using some little tabs of double sided tape to finish the end...it leaves quite a thick lump, looks bad and unfinished, and seems like it could unravel. By tapering the finish end, and "wipping it) it just blends in smoothly!
I did two of my other bikes using tennis racket handle wrap from a company called Tourna. This is very similar to Trip Machine's product....100% "real" leather. If you are careful, you can do two grips with one roll of Tourna...making it quite a bit less expensive than the Trip Machine product.
I will say however, the Trip product is just slightly superior in quality and "looks".
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