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Where can I get a Bell with a wide mount?

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  • Started 10 years ago by dg145
  • Latest reply from Coxy
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  1. dg145
    Member

    Hi

    The bell that came with my cross-bike died a couple of weeks ago (to be honest it was always next to useless in the wet, anyway). I've been trying to find a decent replacement but all the bells I've seen in shops or online appear to have too narrow mounts.

    I need a wider mount that will fit around drop-bar handlebars. Any ideas?

    I bought one from Halfords that 'looked' big enough. Wasn't. Looked in Decathlon ... nada. Looked online at EBC and Wiggle, but the little they had appeared to be for mounting round narrower bars.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. wingpig
    Member

    If you can find something like the King of Ding I've something similar which fitted my drops and now fits my horns. Sounds a bit like a hotel reception desk's single ting but audible enough.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. acsimpson
    Member

    I had that exact same problem on my cross. I ended up using an old light bracket and attaching the bell to that. I'll try and post a picture later.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. tk
    Member

    I managed to mount one on my partners bike on the ahead stem. It's just a standard small cylindrical bell from EBC (the ones where the sprung bit can rotate round the bell) and I changed the bolt to one much longer. Works just fine

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I have a little BBB bell that attaches using an o-ring stretched around the handlebar. It's high pitched and a bit quiet compared with the 'usual' taller ping bell. In the rain it barely manages a 'tink!'

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. kaputnik
    Moderator

    A brass bell should resonate fine in the rain, unlike the little "pink-pink" steel ones.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    These have impressive resonance AND I see different mounting options below -

    http://freshtripe.co.uk/Freshtripe/Accessories.html

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. amir
    Member

    I have just bought a Portland Design Works Alexander Graham Bell. This replaces one of the spacers above the headset so is ideal for a roadbike. I used to have one of those standard plingers that almost no pedestrians can hear. This one is brass and has a lower pitch and is much louder. I've not yet been along the innocent to test it on some guinea pigs. Even so it is considerably more beautiful in sound and look that its predecessor.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  9. Baldcyclist
    Member

    I had no idea it was possible to covet a bell, what a lovely thing.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  10. amir
    Member

    I'll try to get to a CCE PY one of these days to give a demo but I can't do the next one.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  11. wingpig
    Member

    I bought a spacer-mounted bell to steal the pinger from to replace the pinger on my bell after that was used to replace the pinger on the wingpiglet's old bell. I was going to use the spacer-mount to either mount a light or camera, to free up some bar-space, improve rest-upside-down capabilities or decrease camera-wobble.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    I have brass bell that seems same as one arellcat mentions. It is very nice. It is on wide bars found for me by Matt at justbikerepairs of juniper green. I think he saw sourcing a bell with wide mount as a challenge

    Posted 9 years ago #

  13. Coxy
    Member

    Got a nice brass 'ding' bell that fits on the fork steerer under the stem. It's fixed to an ahead spacer, so you have to take the stem off to fit it, mind.

    £6 from Harts Cyclery.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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