Originally Posted by Loooty
I'm looking for a bell that won't take up any handlebar room.
I'd rather not continue to use "on your left" because no one really knows how to respond to that.
Unfortunately, I already have a cyclocomputer, a back up head light mount, and main head light mount, on my 44 cm drop bars.
I need a bell that can mount either at my bar ends, on the stem (upside down) or on the top tube (upside down).
I've looked around but I can't find a bell that has a large enough diameter mount.
Where do you mount your bell?
Bicycle bell is about safety. It is more important than e.g. a computer. If you place the bell away from your hands, you lose time searching for the bell while your eyes are fixed on the forthcoming emergency. Thus, I suggest that you get a spacebar and move other stuff out while putting the bell next to your fingers.
There are tons of various lousy bells with some examples already give in the responses. Hearing some ding, people react just about as to the 'On your left.', that is: 'Did I hear something?' The bell's sound has to be loud and persistent. In terms of those qualities and reliability nothing beats the Chinese ('Bee') rotary bells that now, fortunately, have become widely available:
http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?item...CT&itemID=1560
http://www.biria.com/parts/bells/
http://store.bicyclerevolution.com/bebeecyre.html
I've seen those bells mounted on stems, but I do not recommend that.