What's on your bars?

elyob said:

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Yours look as congested as mine!

I have bar ends, gripshifters, brakes, speedo, bell, light bracket,
cateye light bracket (underneath) and camera mount.

pete

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Here's mine:
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk/gallery/bike/rockhopper_handlebars

Also with Lumicycles and a Garmin GPS, though the GPS is quite a bit
smaller than yours.
I've also recently bought a bell for use on towpaths, but not got around
to fitting it yet (the screw is not quite long enough).

--
Craig Wallace
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk
http://www.neogeo.org.uk

Craig Wallace said:

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Here's mine:
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk/gallery/bike/rockhopper_handlebars

Also with Lumicycles and a Garmin GPS, though the GPS is quite a bit
smaller than yours.
I've also recently bought a bell for use on towpaths, but not got around
to fitting it yet (the screw is not quite long enough).

These bikes are far to clean to be Real Bikes IMHO (;-)>

Mine used to have all kinds of [censored] on it till I had a clear out:

Quoted message said:

From the left:

long Bar end,
very old centera grip shift - as soon as I find another continuously
adjustable one at a sensible price it will be replaced
brake lever
Bell.
Klick-Fix bracket - holds bar bag with a lighting bar brazed on the
bracket with twin Smart headlamps.
Wireless computer - defunct but used as a clock
Brake lever
XT Rapidfire shifter. The indicator has been removed as it doesn't fit
with everything else.
long Bar end.

So quite neat and tidy really. Add copious quantities of Skog(tm) and
Rust, quill stem that no longer removes from the forks, forks that no
longer bounce, headset bearings that do, just, if you can find them
under the dirt.
And a crud catcher.

For other things, I just bulldog clip a map/route sheet to the
handlebar bag.

No picture, I'm not that sad.

...d

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Quoted message said:

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Here's mine:
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk/gallery/bike/rockhopper_handlebars

quite a bit smaller than yours.

That's what I've heard ;-)

Quoted message said:

(the screw is not quite long enough).

That's what I've heard ;-)

Seriously, I went for that GPS for its robustness and strength of signal.
(Did you notice my bars and Lumis are a little roughed up? They've all ended
up upside down at times.)

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Maybe I'll post a pic of my illuminated top tube compass one day ;-)

~PB

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Quoted message said:

elyob said:

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Yours look as congested as mine!

I have bar ends, gripshifters, brakes, speedo, bell, light bracket,
cateye light bracket (underneath) and camera mount.

Camera mount? Intrigued. Don't the photos come out a little shaky?!

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Quoted message said:

long Bar end,
very old centera grip shift - as soon as I find another continuously
adjustable one at a sensible price it will be replaced
brake lever
Bell.
Klick-Fix bracket - holds bar bag with a lighting bar brazed on the
bracket with twin Smart headlamps.
Wireless computer - defunct but used as a clock
Brake lever
XT Rapidfire shifter. The indicator has been removed as it doesn't fit
with everything else.
long Bar end.

So quite neat and tidy really. Add copious quantities of Skog(tm) and
Rust, quill stem that no longer removes from the forks, forks that no
longer bounce, headset bearings that do, just, if you can find them
under the dirt.
And a crud catcher.

For other things, I just bulldog clip a map/route sheet to the
handlebar bag.

No picture, I'm not that sad.

It'd have been a lot easier to have seen a pic, than trying to 'picture all
that in my minds eye'!

elyob said:

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Maybe...

Four pictures for your delectation:
<url:http://www.flickr.com/photos/23214729@N00/109879661/>

Not much on there at the moment, but I have just this evening fitted a
new Klickfix Minimap holder - one of those things I've been meaning to
do for /ages/.

d.

What's on my bars? Well, before the weekend when they were scrubbed clean,
a thin layer of dust, cobwebs and rat [censored] :-/ Guess that's what I get for
wimping out of cycling in the silly weather.

Graeme

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Thats cluttered. On my sparsely populated bars are. A Cateye Mity 3
computer. Cateye Double Daylights headlights 6w spread & 10w spot. A
Cateye 3 LED front light. A Smart 4 LED front light and I have a set
of those pop in rear lights in the bar ends. I would have my HRM
mounted but that wouldnt leave me anywhere to hold 🙂

Stan Cox

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Have somewhere a photo I got of the web of an American tourer which had
GPS and laptop running mapping software mounted on the bars and powered
from a dynamo.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:25:30 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Have somewhere a photo I got of the web of an American tourer which had
GPS and laptop running mapping software mounted on the bars and powered
from a dynamo.

With a 12 volt SON dynamo (http://www.m-gineering.nl/son12vg.htm), all
sorts of things would be possible. Handlebar mounted laptop, crossbar
mobile phone charger, heated saddle, downtube mounted [censored] lighter,
rack mounted fridge, seat post mounted coffee maker, seat tube mounted
fluorescent tube, etc... etc...
--
Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who
are now stuck in traffic on their way to a health club
to ride a stationary bicycle. -
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon)

davek said:

elyob said:

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Maybe...

Four pictures for your delectation:
<url:http://www.flickr.com/photos/23214729@N00/109879661/>

Not much on there at the moment, but I have just this evening fitted a
new Klickfix Minimap holder - one of those things I've been meaning to
do for /ages/.

Do you work for Royal Mail or does your postie leave their bands lying
around?

My much battered underslung Cateye HL500 (with an EverLED in it) is
held together by those red bands and I have another looped under it
and over the bar to stop it rattling on the very worn bracket. Other
than that just a couple of bar ends, there was a bell but that got
smashed when I came off last month.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Quoted message said:

Do you work for Royal Mail or does your postie leave their bands lying
around?

My much battered underslung Cateye HL500 (with an EverLED in it) is
held together by those red bands and I have another looped under it
and over the bar to stop it rattling on the very worn bracket.

IMO the red bands look so much better than brown ones.
My rear light bracket is assisted by a couple of bands and the front light's
rattly switch is held down by another.

Phil Cook said:

Do you work for Royal Mail or does your postie leave their bands lying
around?

Heh, well spotted. My driveway is awash with red elastic bands. I keep
meaning to speak to the postie about it but never manage to catch him -
I should leave a note, I suppose, but they do come in very useful. I
half thought about suggesting he post them through my letterbox rather
than leave them scattered all over the drive, but I suspect I would
then end up with hundreds of them.

d.

elyob said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

I looked at the page, thought "what an unkind comment, it's quite interesting,
then came back here and realised you were talking about yourself :-)

Not too geeky, really. We all buy and use some/all/more of this stuff.

I wonder how many people buy a wireless computer and end up replacing it with a
wired one. I got a wired one first (but that was due to being a tight git rather
than realising the problems I might get with wireless).

Paul said:

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 23:17:27 -0000, "elyob" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

I looked at the page, thought "what an unkind comment, it's quite
interesting, then came back here and realised you were talking about
yourself :-)

Not too geeky, really. We all buy and use some/all/more of this stuff.

I wonder how many people buy a wireless computer and end up replacing
it with a wired one. I got a wired one first (but that was due to
being a tight git rather than realising the problems I might get with
wireless).

I still haven't had a single problem with my wireless Flightdeck computer.
In three years! The Wireless Cateye I had was useless, though. As is my
_wired_ Polar (always losing sync and hates the cold!).

Simon Bennett said:

I still haven't had a single problem with my wireless Flightdeck computer.
In three years! The Wireless Cateye I had was useless, though. As is my
_wired_ Polar (always losing sync and hates the cold!).

I find the magnet adjustment fiddly on my cheap Aldi computer - it's a
wireless one, but it's the magnet/sensor spacing that's the problem
rather than the wireless bit.

Since I'm bracing my chequebook for a new bike, I'm looking around
for good accessories, and wondered whether it's feasible to drive
the computer from a hub dynamo. This would presumably have an AC
(or perhaps pulsed DC) output at a frequency that's some multiple
of the wheel speed, so it might be difficult to set the computer
up (it might see 4 or 8 pulses per rev). But it should be a good
solid signal.

Has anyone done this, or come across a wired computer with
sufficient wheelsize adjustment to handle it ?

-adrian

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Here's mine ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob/109759905/

Any one else sad enough to post this kind of boring, geeky stuff?

Oh, well, if we're playing that game:
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/handlebars.html>

Simon, sad enough for anything.

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Morning had broken, and there was nothing we could do but wait
patiently for the RAC to arrive.