Video: How to wrap handlebar tape

Here’s the best way to wrap handlebar tape. Well, it's the best way according to the Team Katusha mechanics.

We know that everyone has their own preferences for wrapping handlebar tape, and everyone is convinced that their way is best. Oh, we’ve had many a lively debate about it.

Do you start by going inward or outward? You do the figure of eight thing around the levers, right? How much sticky tape do you use at the ends? It’s a right old can of worms. And that’s without getting into the issue of whether the colour of your handlebar tape has to match your saddle.

Anyway, the Katusha mechanic - we don't know his name - has one side done in about 2mins, and we reckon that’s pretty good going.

Notice the use of the brake for hanging the scissors. That's pro, that is.

How do you rate his technique? Let us know down below what you do differently.

* Quick and easy for him. Not so quick and easy for the rest of us, perhaps.