TAF in every way. God, I love this place.
Ladybiek’s crane bell’s threads stripped out last night. Will not be buying anymore crane bells.
On a whim, I sanded the lacquer off of my bell and it rings noticeably longer and has a generally “clearer” sound.
Will report again once it has been hand-hammed in the classic zil tradition.
So into my spurcycle!
[quote=Wintage Townie]On a whim, I sanded the lacquer off of my bell and it rings noticeably longer and has a generally “clearer” sound.
Will report again once it has been hand-hammed in the classic zil tradition.[/quote]
Does the silver rockbros have lacquer on it? It feels like it does. I’ll sand & polish it if it will ding better after.
Hmm, I guess I could try sanding my black one. Admittedly I rarely ring it, but longer and clearer is more betterer.
I took the Rockbros off my commuter to replace with Spurcycle Frakenbell and fully disassembled the black rockbros.
Looks like they spray painted it or something since they didn’t do a very good job coating the inside, especially at the furthest point from the wide opening you can see the raw metal.
Josh, do you want to take it to experiment with?
Ball-peen
Cyclingtips at the cutting edge of bell reviewing: https://cyclingtips.com/2016/12/spurcycle-vs-knog-oi-review/
SPOILER ALERT: the knog is pretty shit.
[quote=heavymetal]Cyclingtips at the cutting edge of bell reviewing: https://cyclingtips.com/2016/12/spurcycle-vs-knog-oi-review/
SPOILER ALERT: the knog is pretty shit.[/quote]
Small world, the reviewer used to ride with Point 83 bike club
Oy vey
My dislike for Chris King makes me feel less bad about my (still functioning) Rockbros.
Are people casting off their recently delivered kickstarter knog bells like a turd on a shoe over in merica as well?
Seeing a lot of people trying to sell their ‘cool new limited edition knog’ bell, because it fails at the one thing it’s supposed to do.
I don’t think it ever got the traction here that it did on Prison Island. I’ve seen lots of internet posts complaining about it, but have yet to see one in action, or for sale on Craigslist/eBay (though I haven’t been looking). It’s been hilarious reading about Knog’s weaseling on it though, like claiming that ~1% were defective or some bullshit, when it’s universally acknowledged to suck shit.
Makes me wonder if the Oi fiasco was what prompted them to kill their latest kickstarter campaign.
A mate got an Oi! on the kickstarter thing. Says it dings constantly on anything but the smoothest of roads.
NBD if you can’t hear it anyway amirite?
You make a valid point.
Any other bells good for mounting right next to the stem on 31.8 bars? Seriously considering Spurcycle despite how much I fundamentally disagree with a bell being sold for that much.
Dude, are you serious?
Also the Incredibell Omnibell and Adjustabell2.