Some interesting items geared towards the cycling community pop up on Kickstarter every now and then. One of the most recent items is the brainchild of Mathijs Wagenaar, called hidemybell. The idea is simple really, take a Garmin mount and adapt the underside to hold a bell so that you can be a safe and courteous cyclist, without the eyesore of a bell on your fancy race bike handlebars. Watch the video above, and visit the hidemybell Kickstarter page for full details.
Hi John, good question! You can put a Garmin 520 in the two mount option. On a Fizik R3 stem combo with the hidemybell the distance to the center of the first mount option is 49 mm and to the second 59 mm. So the 520 have an 73 mm housing, then there will be an option to have 25 mm or 45 mm spacing to use the front buttons.
Thanks for all the comment, very much appreciated! @Eddie indeed the design looks a Bar Fly SL, so does it looks like an SRAM, K-edge and an original Garmin mount. To make an real minimalistic design with an small as possible clamb around the handlebar and the computer just in front of the the stem there are not many design ”challenges’. Still it is an challenge to make it stiff / strong and enough flex for the lever to ring the bell. The first prototype gives a real good ring so the bell is defently usefull 🙂
