Rear View Mirrors
 

Hello everyone,

I recently bought a Trek Marlin 6 29er. It has a Bontrager Lowriser 25.44mm handlebar and is fitted with satellite plus grips. I want to install handlebar end rear-view mirrors but a lot of the options I have been coming across require me to cut the ends of the grips, which i am not comfortable doing, considering these are not round grips but those ergonomic kinds.

What do you guys suggest?

Appreciate your help.

-Mikhil

You can either cut the grips (easy and clean with an x-acto knife) or replace them with a lock-on style grip that uses an end plug. There are lots of ergo style grips that would work, if you like that style.
The barend style mirrors (Mirrycle) are the best type of bike mounted mirror that I've used.

I've used the grips with plugs as well as cut out the ends. I agree that it is hard to make yourself damage a perfectly good part. Once you get past the idea of cutting up a grip, the actual process is easy and the results are just fine. I have mirrors on all my bikes.

Is that a Bontrager IsoZone handlebar? Mirrycle has a mirror designed specifically for that handlebar. (I'm not sure which grips you have, the Satellite Plus grips I've seen have an end plug that can be popped of.) https://www.mirrycle.com/ltd_mirror.php

Update: I just looked at the specs. At that price point it's probably not an IsoZone handlebar and would use the standard mountain mirror. https://www.mirrycle.com/mountain_mirrycle.php

Basically pry off the end plugs. If the bar is round get the mountain mirror (or any other mirror), if it's moon shaped get the LTD mirror.

And remember, you can always buy new grips.

Cutting grips to install bar-end accessories is not a good way to do it - first, remove the grip to ensure there is not a plug in the end of the bar, then re-install them as far as they will go, then use a hard rubber or wooden mallet to repeatedly whack the end of the grip and the bar will cut a perfectly round hole in the grip*.

If you want to install anything on the ends of your bars then there must be a hole in the grips - there is no way around it.

*I don't think this will work with a carbon bar - only metal bars.

Thanks a lot guys.
[MENTION=189461]Bezalel[/MENTION] I had come across the Mirrycle LTD but yeah, I do not have an Isozone handlebar.

Looks like I will have to replace the grips. Like [MENTION=308829]jhazel[/MENTION] said, I think I just have to get around the initial reluctance.

Thanks everyone.

Only this one is the one I can truly recommend ( "original size" ). I tried all most popular on the market, and few that you could find only on small cycling related websites. Most of them just simply broke, wasn't stable enough, or needed adjustment many times during each ride. Bike Peddler mirror is bomb proof, heavy duty, light, all metal construction, and non breakable "glass" element, in which everything looks like HD, and the size is just perfect. Most mirrors are just too small, and you can't always adjust them the right way.
Using this one for around 3 years, and a lot of miles during summer and winter.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=427899

Amazon.com : Bike Peddler Take A Look Cycling Eyeglass Mirror : Bike Peddler Take A Look Mirror Compact : Sports & Outdoors

Check out Busch & Muller mirrors. I've had a few including Mirrycle and B&Ms are the best.

Let me second this recommendation.

First, I prefer a mirror on my glasses as I can swing it through a wide range of rear view very quickly, and see everything behind me from the person drafting me to any cars coming up on the side.

Second, the Bike Peddler "Take a Look" is remarkably sturdy compared to other eyeglass mirrors. I've been using one for years (like 20) and it still is just fine.

Pictures of your

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Bontrager Lowriser 25.44mm handlebar and is fitted with satellite plus grips

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would help for those who dont memorize all the parts on the planet.

Trek Dealer would help , at least the one here , I know, would. Fitted more than one of these, Myself.

https://www.mirrycle.com/mountain_mirrycle.php

NB they also have an Isozone compatible https://www.mirrycle.com/ltd_mirror.php

[MENTION=204715]lopek77[/MENTION] I am really not comfortable with the idea of having a rear view mirror on my helmet and/or my glasses. Handlebar mirrors, more specifically handlebar end mirrors is what I am really interested in. I guess I should have mentioned in my initial post. Nonetheless thanks a lot for your time. Really appreciate it.
@fietsbob Yeah, should have attached a photograph too...

I have finally decided on the Mirrycle... Thanks a lot, everyone for their help.