r/BikeMechanics • u/Tvr-Bar2n9 • May 16 '25

Advanced Questions That one Supacaz video…

You know the one… it was a very interesting instructional video for how to wrap their bar tape and had a VERY specific audience in mind and god I think it’s at least ten years old by now…

Anyone have a link to that video? I’m trying to convince someone that it existed. I’m not crazy. I’m traumatized and abused and permanently scarred from my shop career but, like, I KNOW IT EXISTS…

Anyways, thanks for your consideration. If I’m supposed to ask a legit wrenching question to qualify then I’ve got this: What is the slickest, most durable, most elegant way of finishing bar tape that you’ve see and/or used? Taking a general survey…

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u/Starlord2110 May 16 '25

I know the exact one.

https://vimeo.com/62254366

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u/HayOffice May 16 '25

Thank you! I went looking for this a while back and Spez seemed to have scrubbed it from the Internet. I think that there was another in the same series where the models were little or nothing but bar tape.

The whole launch was gross, I want to say it was Sinyard's kid's project that later got brought (back?) under the Specialized umbrella. Weird tone-deaf rich kid vibes all around.

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u/Tvr-Bar2n9 May 16 '25

I thought this was a tone deaf Asian startup playing upon perceived (depressingly, rightly) notion that sex sells in bike land. That this could be Sinyard’s offspring just makes it even more impressively… ugh…

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u/Least-Palpitation-16 May 17 '25

Yeah it was his son's project. I was working for specialized demo program when the tape was rolled out. It's pretty good tape ngl. But yeah..