There is tape marketed for handle bars. There were two kinds when I was a mechanic a long time ago, the French cotton sticky tape, and the Italian brightly colo

There is tape marketed for handle bars. There were two kinds when I was a mechanic a long time ago, the French cotton sticky tape, and the Italian brightly colored non sticky plastic tape. Everyone wraps from the bar end to the stem but I was taught to wrap from the stem to the bar end. Stem to end doesn’t curl with use as your hand glides over the edge instead of lifting the edge as happens with an end to stem wrap. Also a stem to end wrap requires no additional tape to hold it in place. The bar end button holds it together.