Couldn’t you just use a metal washer between the bolt and the tube? Or am I misunderstanding where the tube goes?
I think you are misunderstanding, we are discussing the single bolt, it pulls the band/internals into the body of the bell tightening the bell to the handlebar but it almost uses the bell itself as a washer so we are discussing placing a piece of material between the bolt head and body of the bell.
Looking for an image of the rubber piece I found this: https://cyclingtips.com/2016/08/a-tale-of-two-bells-spurcycle-vs-the-counterfeiters/
Also, not sure if you had the same problem but I found it hard to hold the rubber piece in place on the Rockbros version. Mine naturally wanted to squirm away from the clamping piece
The one on those spur bells look highly superior. The one that came on on the rockbros was awful and fell apart
I got a spur for my birthday, I can’t wait to have a bike to put it on.
The spring arm on my Rock Bros started to feel super shitty and wasn’t giving a positive ring, so I bought a Dimension headset bell for my Elephant. It’s nice to have a little real estate back on my stem (with my Swift box, that was the only place the Rock Bros fit).
A drop of lube on the rock bros spring arm has kept all 4 I have kicking around workin fine.
I tried that. Also, the rubber backing piece was starting to rot away, I suspect because the Elephant lived more or less entirely outside for nearly a year.
Rokbros bell immediately came to mind while I was watching this (at 4:25)
WTF, the “fidgetcube” raised millions of dollars? I’m ashamed of you, people of the world.
I hate that Yancey guy
Oh my god! What a smug piece of shit!
Spurcycle protip: you know how those annoying rubber bumpers never stay put and squirm away as you tighten the bell on to the bars? Stick a leather washer in there to keep em spread while you work.
[quote=Andrew_Squirrel]Spurcycle protip: you know how those annoying rubber bumpers never stay put and squirm away as you tighten the bell on to the bars? Stick a leather washer in there to keep em spread while you work.
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I feel like it’s a pretty specific subset of Tarck that has a plethora of different sizes of leather washer sitting around for this type of use.
Was thinking the exact same thing. Basically, “it’s so tarck to fix a weirdo bell problem with a leather washer”
I made my own leather washers last night for a non-bike project, so this protip is aimed at me pretty squarely.