Bracket for light and speedometer too small

Just yesterday I purchased a brand new Specialized Allez elite bike. Well today I started
transferring some of my accessories over from my old bike such as my lights and speedometer.

My speedometer is the Specialized SpeedZone Sport. Well the problem is that the handle bars on this
new bike are much larger than my old handle bars and even with taking all the rubber padding out
from inside the brackets, the handlebars are too big around to mount the brackets. I know someone
else has to have come up against this problem, could you please tell me how you dealt with it.

thanks

Dan

>My speedometer is the Specialized SpeedZone Sport. Well the problem is that the handle bars on this
>new bike are much larger than my old handle bars and even with taking all the rubber padding out
>from inside the brackets, the handlebars are too big around to mount the brackets. I know someone
>else has to have come up against this problem, could you please tell me how you dealt with it.
>
>thanks

Contact Specialized and see if they have a mount or the larger diameter. Phil Brown.

In article <voimjm9eho1ba@corp.supernews.com>, "dlakey" <dlakey@NOcox-internetSPAM.com> writes:

>Just yesterday I purchased a brand new Specialized Allez elite bike. Well today I started
>transferring some of my accessories over from my old bike such as my lights and speedometer.
>
>My speedometer is the Specialized SpeedZone Sport. Well the problem is that the handle bars on this
>new bike are much larger than my old handle bars and even with taking all the rubber padding out
>from inside the brackets, the handlebars are too big around to mount the brackets. I know someone
>else has to have come up against this problem, could you please tell me how you dealt with it.
>

Hi Dan,

Remove the small bolt/screw from the mounting bracket of you speedometer....put it in a "safe" place
for later use. Install a THIN rubber shim between the mounting bracket and handlebar, insert a small
(black matches color) "zip tie" throubh the two holes normally filled by the bolt. screw you
removed, cinch the two parts of the mounting bracket band together TIGHTLY with the zip tie, cut off
the excess zip tie...and your done!!

Regards,
Bill