The Ringer: a Bike Bell for Grown-ups

Wow, the bastard child of an Incredible (Mirrycle.com) and a Hammer bell (rivbike.com), no start up cash needed, a couple of patents to circumvent and an instant online market. And it’s $20 more expensive. Good looking bell, well finished, just hate the context.

people dont care when hear this type of bell

i just got a dimension beehive bell. it was $8 and that sucker is LOUD.

I’ve been using a bell for 15 yrs. Love this little beauty. Maybe not $35 of love….

^What Jeff said.

Neat looking bell……but for $35?

I need a more convenient bell trigger in the clamp of my brakes. I find the triggers too hard to reach over to access when all my controls are positioned the way I like them. Maybe something electronic with selectable ringtones!! Now that is innovation.

This is more hipster /townie nonsense to strap onto your bamboo framed POS with no brakes.

Interestingly enough, the video shows a Bell on a Carl Strong bike, something decidedly not hipster/townie nonsense. All the bikes in the video have brakes, and none of them are bamboo.

Now that the previous assumptions have been shot down, the bell looks like a quality piece of kit. I know that such things don’t rank with the bike snobs and career naysayers, but some people might actually value the quality of the bell and the work that goes into it.

35 dollars isnt even that much. people pay way more than that for waterbottle cages all day.

This is exactly the bell I been looking for. $35 isn’t much for something nice. I see and hear them on my local trails and they work. I just backed them for 2. Since this post went live on bikerumor, their pledge dollars went up over $10,000. I’m MTBer and a Roadie.

I just say ‘ding ding’. It’s free, and you can easily vary your level of audible indignation.

is it loud enough to be heard through the shooting range approved headphones most trail blockers wear? For $35 an overpowered radio transmitter could be made that would blast their ears with an unignorable “ON YOUR LEFT”, but the FCC doesn’t like that, for some stupid reason.

They officially have our money. For made in the USA, quality design and build, they deserve it. This it the only bell I have ever seen that I wanted to put on my bikes…

Lovely.

EricNM- The 5 guys on here who bought one or two…bravo. Proving my point
I will be proven correct but it will take a year or so to run through the very small market and kickstarter money before the producer runs out of desire and money.
BikeRumor will not run a story on the failure of the $35 bar bell so no one will ever know after it fades away like tons of other boutique products designed for the same exact crowd.
I am not anti anything necessarily(well except townies and bamboo bikes), but have been working in and around the industry for 35 years and have seen pretty much everything.

I still say that there is a better bell design out there, this is just not IT.
This is just the same old bell design positioned to take money from the suckers by trying to drive it upmarket.

it’s amazing the amount of comments over a bell. like the usa made part.

It is a modified clothes-pin on an O-clamp with a 1 1/2″ pipe-cap screwed to it.

All you haters sound like pathetic, whining children. So you don’t want a bell. Great, then screw off and complain about something that actually sucks in a forum where people give a rats ass.

Kudos to Spurcycle‘s. It looks like a awesome bell. I break a couple per year because they’re usually mounted to a plastic clasp and I ride/crash a lot. If its actually tough, I’ll for sure buy two or three for a few of my bikes.

People that think this bell is expensive should take a look at their kickstarter page. Not only was this funded in 24 hours but they are $105k over their goal as I write this. The campaign still has 34 days to go…………I guess 2216 backers are all snobs and hipsters. I guess I’m one too, oh well.

People talk about wanting made in America items but then balk at price when they see it. You can’t have both.

$35 bucks for such of beautiful piece of craftsmanship and functional at that, I would this bell
ART THAT WORKS I have been a journeyman machinist for 44 years and have the machinery and knowledge to make one but not for $35 bucks.
What more do you want, it is made in the good old USA.

Cant say its “THE best” because I haven’t tried them all, but as a user of this bell through all-weather commutes on my bicycle over the last year, this bell is EXCEPTIONAL for the size, sound quality, sound intensity, quality of material, style, durability, and domestic manufacturing. Yes, there are cheaper bells, but you compromise on several stated criteria.

Bottom line, if you’ve put $1k or more in a bike and want a bell too, do yourself a favor and get this bell that will last as long as the bike does.