Designing and printing a bike mirror

What I needed didn't exist, so I made it

Over the years, I've bought at least four of these Origin 8 handlebars. They're attractive, comfortable, versatile, and cheap.

But they have an unusually small internal diameter, which makes finding mirrors that fit very difficult. Most all are made for bars with a larger inner diameter.

And also, most bike mirrors are as ugly as homemade sin, or so I'm told.

So, armed with my new Bambu printer, I set about creating one that solved both of those problems.

The model is on MakerWorld now.

For the print, I used this nice bone ivory PETG. PETG is a must for something like this, that needs to be strong and UV-resistant. I used this mirror, although most any 3" mirror should more or less work.

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