Phone mount recomendations
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Phone mount recomendations
Hi all
I'm wanting to mount my phone on my handlebars* for sat nav. Doesn't need to be waterproof as I'm a fair weather rider.
What have you guys and girls tried, what's good and what's not ?
TIA
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I'm wanting to mount my phone on my handlebars* for sat nav. Doesn't need to be waterproof as I'm a fair weather rider.
What have you guys and girls tried, what's good and what's not ?
TIA
*mandlebars
Re: Phone mount recomendations
I use one of these for trail riding. Strong, sturdy hasn't broken.
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
What phone?
If it's a top end handset with a floating focus style camera, you need to be extra careful about mounts, the vibration can damage the moving parts in the focus mechanism.
If it's a top end handset with a floating focus style camera, you need to be extra careful about mounts, the vibration can damage the moving parts in the focus mechanism.
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
Quadlock seems to be the one most widely used but its not cheap.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:51 am What phone?
If it's a top end handset with a floating focus style camera, you need to be extra careful about mounts, the vibration can damage the moving parts in the focus mechanism.
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
Don't get the cheapie XLMoto 'basics' one... the nut stripped the thread off the clamp bolt first time I tried to use it.
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
Honor hawai x8 or somethingKungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:51 am What phone?
If it's a top end handset with a floating focus style camera, you need to be extra careful about mounts, the vibration can damage the moving parts in the focus mechanism.
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
I like Brodits, but they're designed for internal use in a car and need a little modification for external use on a bike.
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
I Have a Quadlok - but I don't dare use. It has already buggered on iPhone.Scotsrich wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 11:27 amQuadlock seems to be the one most widely used but its not cheap.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:51 am What phone?
If it's a top end handset with a floating focus style camera, you need to be extra careful about mounts, the vibration can damage the moving parts in the focus mechanism.
That said, they sent me a free vibration damper - and refunded the money for the mount.
Until I have an iPhone in warranty, I still won't use it!
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
I'm in the quadlock camp but won't use a bike mount, mostly because the one time you really really need a phone is when you chuck your bike up the street and I reckon my phone has more of a chance surviving in my pocket than on the handle bars.
My sat nav was found 20 yards down the road.
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My sat nav was found 20 yards down the road.
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Re: Phone mount recomendations
I got 2 of these, wireless charging is handy and seems to hold phone tight, any size. Doubled in price though.
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