Handlebar accessories.

Vincent Wilcox

What do people recomend to increase handlebar realestate? Something to
take the horn, speedo, lights and any other junk off the bars. Drops in
this case. Thanks.

Rick Onanian

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:03:30 +0100, Vincent Wilcox <vw@f2s.com>
wrote:
>What do people recomend to increase handlebar realestate? Something to
>take the horn, speedo, lights and any other junk off the bars. Drops in
>this case. Thanks.

I mounted my speedometer to the top of my stem, between my clip-on
aerobars.

Here's what Sheldon Brown has done:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/...ges/2-bars.html

There's a product called the Minoura Space Bar that ought to work
for you.
--
Rick Onanian

Arnaud

How did you mount it on the stem?
I was thinking about mounting my GPS on the stem but I'm crap at DIY...

"Rick Onanian" <spamsink@cox.net> wrote in message
news:hgrs80hjrhc5tcq4gjb4p8tr3m09jb9tpm@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:03:30 +0100, Vincent Wilcox <vw@f2s.com>
> wrote:
> >What do people recomend to increase handlebar realestate? Something to
> >take the horn, speedo, lights and any other junk off the bars. Drops in
> >this case. Thanks.
>
> I mounted my speedometer to the top of my stem, between my clip-on
> aerobars.
>
> Here's what Sheldon Brown has done:
> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/...ges/2-bars.html
>
> There's a product called the Minoura Space Bar that ought to work
> for you.
> --
> Rick Onanian

Rick Onanian

>"Rick Onanian" <spamsink@cox.net> wrote in message
>> I mounted my speedometer to the top of my stem, between my clip-on
>> aerobars.
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:28:29 +0100, "Arnaud"
<nospam1234@hotmail.com> wrote:
>How did you mount it on the stem?
>I was thinking about mounting my GPS on the stem but I'm crap at DIY...

I zip-tied it's bracket to the handlebar on each side of the stem
with two criss-crossing zip-ties. Depending on how everything fits,
you could do it with adhesive velcro; certainly if you're not afraid
to modify the speedometer's bracket, you can do it with velcro.

I intend to change this speedometer out for a Cateye Astrale soon;
the Cateye's mount plate is separable from it's handlebar bracket,
so that will be an easy one.
--
Rick Onanian

Jeff Wills

Rick Onanian <spamsink@cox.net> wrote in message news:<hgrs80hjrhc5tcq4gjb4p8tr3m09jb9tpm@4ax.com>...
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:03:30 +0100, Vincent Wilcox <vw@f2s.com>
> wrote:
> >What do people recomend to increase handlebar realestate? Something to
> >take the horn, speedo, lights and any other junk off the bars. Drops in
> >this case. Thanks.
<snip>
> There's a product called the Minoura Space Bar that ought to work
> for you.

It appears to have been replaced by the SwingGrip-2:
http://harriscyclery.net/site/page....D=49&SKU=HB2004
http://harriscyclery.net/site/page....D=49&SKU=HB2005
http://harriscyclery.net/site/page....D=49&SKU=HB2006
http://harriscyclery.net/site/page....D=49&SKU=HB2007

I've seen two of these clamped together for extra additional real
estate. Some of my recumbent-riding friends have bad cases of
technophilia: multiple computers, heart-rate monitor, GPS, FM &
two-way radios, lights, camera, horn, extra water bottles, etc., etc.
And they wonder why they're slow up hills...

Jeff

Rick Onanian

On 27 Apr 2004 13:12:08 -0700, jwills@pacifier.com (Jeff Wills)
wrote:
>Some of my recumbent-riding friends have bad cases of
>technophilia: multiple computers, heart-rate monitor, GPS, FM &
>two-way radios, lights, camera, horn, extra water bottles, etc., etc.
>And they wonder why they're slow up hills...

With all that fun stuff, why care how long it takes to get up a
hill?
--
Rick Onanian