I saw those at the time of buying the RockBros one,what put me off was the price and the plastic element and possibility of the pinger breaking off as I've seen before with other albeit cheaper bells. Let us know how you get on with it. They're certainly very neat
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Surfing ebay yesterday and spotted it. What lets so many cheap bells down is the spring? That's why I wanted a springless bell, well a mechanism that uses a non corroding spring. And spring matl is not always specified.
NA Thinks Just End 2 End Return + Bivvy - Some day Soon I hope You'll Still Find Me At The Top Of A Hill Please forgive the poor Grammar I blame it on my mobile and phat thinkers.
I ordered the bell via eBay on 12th Dec, it arrived today (6th Jan) - shipping took about 3 weeks...this was very well explained on the eBay advert, so no problems there.
Fitting took about 2 minutes. The "ding" is very loud! Build quality is excellent. It is quite unobtrusive.
Super pleased with it, and would recommend to anyone. For less than 6 quid this is a real bargain.
Should anyone wish to see an image of it as fitted, let me know.
[...] I've no problem with that,I've a big problem with spending £45 to £50 on a bell,and an even bigger one should I wish to equip all five of my bikes with them,however good the quality. I have some sympathy with Spurcycle but the product isn't patented and so is open to copy.
The above link can be summarised as "Small company discovers 'Made in the USA' labelling isn't worth as much as they thought" (it means especially little here in Europe - both the USA and China are far away). Now it looks like they'll make the protectionism mistake for their next design so I expect the next article about them to be "Small company discovers patent protection is expensive and doesn't protect them much".
I've various Adie bells on mine. Reasonably cheap, classic designs (I've bought brrring ones and temple bells) with good parts that seem to last. I've also had various others over the years and share the dislike of plastic parts mentioned above.
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