Originally Posted by
rseeker
Have you added bar ends and did you feel crowded on the bars after? Or was it fine?
I'm talking about the add-on handle protrusions off a flat bar that stick forward kind of like bullhorns.
I'm getting mirrors and I need a place to mount them on my flat bars, so I'm considering bar ends for that.
Like these:
Although I'm a proponent of helmet mirrors over bar mounted mirrors, I have had to mount mirrors on bikes with flat bars because my wife doesn't like helmet mirrors. My solution was to use a
Zefal Doobak mirror. It's a nice mirror and inserts into the handlebar. The barends won't interfere with the mount. You can see it on the left hand side in this picture
DSCN1058 by
Stuart Black, on Flickr
I actually got the righthand mirror so that the mirror hangs
below the handlebar. A lefthand mirror stands above the bar and interferes with the use of the bar ends.