General Cycling Discussion - What's on your handlebars?

Aside from the grips and brakes, I've got bar-ends, a cycle computer, bell, Cateye headlight, white LED flasher and now also an Airzound horn. It's getting a little crowded. :)

So what's on your handlebars?

Regards,
Sp@eder

computer and E.T.

Which bike? Some have only brakes and tape, others tape, STI, light, computer. If you need more space check out the Space Bar at Performance Bike. I have used one off and on. They work great.

not much.

http://www.hax.net/miscpics/bars.jpg

Hi,
Cateye Cordless computer, twin Cateye 300 lights,Pauls brake levers (secondary brake levers,primary levers are Ultegra)...I'm dumb enough I'd prob mount more gadgets if I had more space, it's full!

A beanie baby bumble bee (from my daughter as a good luck charm)...

my spare tube

Flat bar with bar ends, L&M Solo Logic, Cat Eye computer, Flashing LED light, and reflector. Crouded? I'ed say so!!:eek:

what about your hands?

Computer, headlight (vistalight nightstick) for now. As well as the usual grips and brakes.

Computer, headlight, and headlight control console. Oh, bar tape and brakes too.

The road bike has got a Cateye Tomo computer, and a Sports Instruments heart rate monitor, most of the time (I forget which one). The track bike has got nothing. I'm looking to get a wireless computer soon, though.

A Echowell computer w/cadence, Halt and a poormans GPS !:D

I've got my bell, a cycle computer, an Arkel Handlebar bag, shifters/brake levers, bar-ends, and a rear-view mirror that plugs into the left-hand end of the bar.

I don't always ride with the handlebard bag mounted. My headlight is mounted on my front pannier rack.

MTB..Nothing
SS/Fixie..Lights+computer+sometimes HR monitor
Road bike..Computer and HR monitor. I'm getting a new Sigma BC 1600 next week.

Computer, a piece of foam pipe insulation held on with electrical tape so I can strap my HRM the the handle bars, and bar ends, (yes using bar ends on a recumbent is a cool thing and they work quite well). Clipped to the stem tube is my canister of pepper spray.

Once, when I stopped at a yard sale, the proprietor gave me a small stuffed "Garfield" cat. When I told him I had no place to carry the beast, he brought out a plastic cable tie and secured him to the handlebar of my Peugeot. When I got home, I freed Garfield, and later donated him to an orphanage in Tijuana.

I have thought about going totally retro with a handlebar-mounted water bottle or two, but I do not want to obscure the Capo's ornate head badge. Perhaps the Peugeot UO-8 would be a good candidate.

2 lights and my computer. one light is a a led blinkie one is a cheap hologen light. computer is a cheap sigma sport, but it does the job.

Computer and handlebar bag. I'm thinking of adding one of those (http://store6.yimg.com/I/silly-goose_1731_1446363) to scare pedestrians off the bike path.

Turbo cat twin halogens, specialized wireless computer, and a soccerball bell

A Cateye Cordless all the time, Cygo Metro twinlight when commuting (which is most of the time), and a handlebar bag sometimes.

Left to right
bar end, grip, hand, front brake, front gears, bell, speedo, bar bag clip, extention tube, bar bag clip, lights, horn, rear gears, rear brake, grip, hand, bar end.

14 items (excluding hands.)

computer, bell, handlebar bag.

Other than my brake/shifters and bartape, nothing other than my gloved hands. Never owned a heartrate monitor or a bicycle computer. Can't acutally see a use for them really, other than to keep the LBS in buisness. I pretty much can tell how my body is doing by my internal feedback system and it's main processor.
Try it sometime. Listen to your body. It has all the data you need, correlated, continuosly updated, adjusted for both internal and external realtime variable multi-inputs.

This.

And soon to be my Sky-mounti Inclinometer I just ordered from Adventure Cycling!

MTB - Nada
Commuter bike - Cateye Mity 3 computer and the mount for my Cateye El-300 (if not the light too)

I have an airhorn that i mount sometimes but it's pretty rare. I'm bad though, I don't have a light or a working bell anymore.

On my MTB...

http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/cycling/bikes/K2/1999-OzM/images/10620620/PICT0029.JPG

... and if I'm heading out for a night ride...

http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/images/cycling/bikes/K2/1999-OzM/K2_OzM-handlebar-1.jpeg

On my RB...

http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/cycling/bikes/Aegis/2001-Aro_Svelte/images/PICT0016.JPG

what do we have on our bars?
Mini bar - small colour tv (satellite dish is rear mounted) - cellphone - Chiller with food.
:D

Shimano Flight Deck (cyclocomputer) and Polar S 510 heart rate monitor.

By the way...thanks for posting the photos khuon. My Flight Deck was installed by my LBS and I've never been completely happy with it's location. Your photos made the obvious alternative apparent.

Originally posted by druhl
By the way...thanks for posting the photos khuon. My Flight Deck was installed by my LBS and I've never been completely happy with it's location. Your photos made the obvious alternative apparent.

No problem. Do you mean my installation on my MTB or RB? If RB, are you talking about the twirling of the brifter interface wires around the brake cables? Someone told me a long time ago to twirl your excess wiring around your brake cables for a cleaner installation. It's supposed to look more professional that way... kinda like aligning the label of your tyres with your valvestem. Curiously enough, my computers were also originally installed by my LBS with the excess wires just taped in a loop with electrical tape. I redid the installation when I had rewrapped my handlebar tape. If you decide to do this, you will have to remove one side of the connections either at the brifter or the mount. I decided to run the wires straight alongside the brake cables under the tape and then start twirling it in the bare. To do this, I removed the right side connection at the mount. There are two screws in the bottom. Be careful not to lose the rubber seal and not to get any gunk into the contact holes. I was then able to twirl the left side (mount, left side connector, and left side wires) independently from the right (right connector and wires). Make sure to leave a little bit of slack so that your cables' movements don't eventually strain the interface wires causing a breakage. Also make sure to get the contacts fully reseated otherwise your gear display and candence won't function right.

Barend shifters, brakes, computer, AirZound, fittings for barbag.

Originally posted by late
twin Cateye 300 lights,

That must look very nice at night. :D

hmmmm been thinking about the flightdeck computer.... how easy is it to install? I'm a do it myself seeing how i have worked in the bike store....

On my roadbike, on the stem i have a fabric case cable tied on which caries my fone :D its so easy... i can answer the fone at 30km/h!!

Brendon
:beer:

Originally posted by NZLcyclist
hmmmm been thinking about the flightdeck computer.... how easy is it to install?

Installing it was the easy part. Programming it took a bit more time actually.

It basically installs like any other computer except that you need to run the interface wires to your shifters. You don't need much more than a screwdriver. For MTB shifters this is easier since you just need to take off the mechanical OGDs and replace them with the interface connectors. For RBs you need to... well.. not need but probably want to remove the tape up to the hoods, peel back the hoods, remove the cover where the interface connector goes and attach the connector then rewrap your tape. Then of course you need to play with the computer head and program all the gears in addition to programming in the normal things that you would for other computers such as time and wheel circumference. If you want a preview of the manual, Look at this post:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21967&highlight=SC6501

Although it doesn't have install instructions, it does have programming ones.

Originally posted by khuon
If you want a preview of the manual, Look at this post:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21967&highlight=SC6501

Although it doesn't have install instructions, it does have programming ones.

Hmmm... I lied. It does have install instructions on page 7.