Garage mechanic tip: brake lever grip tape

Brake levers and sweaty fingers don't mix. Even with full finger gloves, especially ones that have some age to them can't grip a smooth metal lever as well as they should.

Lizard skins made some neoprene covers years ago, and I've tried other kinds of grip tape to no avail. This is a good solution and very cheap. Go to Home Depot/lowes or other and in the electrical section look for LINERLESS MASTIC TAPE. It is used to waterproof exterior connections. For example when you connect two coaxial cables outside, you'll use a layer of regular electrical tape, a layer of this mastic, then more layers of electrical tape.

It comes in different thicknesses and widths. Go for the thin style with <1inch width. It looks like regular electrical tape but it is not adhesive and it is thicker. The cool thing is that it sticks to itself and over time sort of melts together.


Cut a length off and wrap it around you lever with small overlaps. You can use some regular electrical tape to keep it from unravelling or try to get it to really stick to itself at the end.

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It has a tacky feel to it which helps a lot with lever grip, and lasts a couple of months. But a roll is only a few bucks so should last you all season.