Supacaz Super Sticky Kush handlebar tape (£27.95)
Supacaz Super Sticky Kush handlebar tape (£27.95)
Infused with a high degree of off-beat Californian cool (or a taste for appalling colour schemes, depending on your opinion), Supacaz have really made an effort to bring a bit of personality to the bar tape world.
While they only offer one thickness, the marketing tagline ‘no more gloves’ clues you in to the fact that it’s pretty plush, and easily over 2mm thick. On top of that it comes in an astonishing array of designs and colours: everything from single colours, to two-tone tape or even patterns if that’s what you fancy.
Supacaz reckon that their tape lasts up to five times longer than traditional tape, a bold claim but we’ve been using it for a while now (here’s our review) and the durability is definitely very high.
Supacaz also comes with some of the smarter bar-end plugs around. They basically work like an expanding headset that you operate using an allen bolt in the middle of the cap. It means they fit very snugly, but are also a little easer to get in along with all the ends of the tape.
Website: Supacaz
UK distributor: Silverfish