Originally Posted by
lostarchitect
I've actually had a tough time with this. All my bikes have drop bars--and I hate having the bell on the stem. For commuter bikes I've been attaching the bell to the right drop, a bit below the brake lever. If I have thick bar tape, I wrap over the bell's clamp. With thin tape, I attach the bell over the tape. When I am on the hoods (95% of the time, probably) this allows me to easily flick the bell with my thumb. I pretty much never go into the drops on these bikes, so it's not in the way. It looks like this:
That looks cool, but I ride in the drops a fair bit. (I'm wrapping new bars soon, so trying to decide). Currently, I have a lot of crap on my bars and have the bell out near the right hood, but not on the bars. My next setup will be much cleaner. I'd thought about going just above but as close to the lever as possible (like clamp going under the hood, but I'm going to use campagnolo shifters so I'll need to get at the button from both the hoods and drops. I like not having to move my hand to hit the bell, but it might be going on the stem after all.
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Bikes: 1996 Eddy Merckx Titanium EX, 1989/90 Colnago Super(issimo?) Piu(?), 1990 Concorde Aquila(hit by car while riding), others in build queue "when I get the time"