Show Me Handlebar Phone Mounts.

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In readiness for our upcoming trip, I fancy getting a bar mounted phone holder.

Obviously want a safe, waterproof one.

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If your phone has OIS or any kind of mechanical focus/zoom (rather than a digital one), like a lot of high end phones do these days... then solidly mounting it to a vibrating bike will proper fuck up the camera.
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Bollox. Nowhere to mount it.
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 1:59 pm If your phone has OIS or any kind of mechanical focus/zoom (rather than a digital one), like a lot of high end phones do these days... then solidly mounting it to a vibrating bike will proper fuck up the camera.
Pssst, it's Yorick asking :shhh:
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Yorick wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:53 pm Bollox. Nowhere to mount it.

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Ball mount in steering stem / nut, add quadmount, profit.
You also need to top off your brake fluid
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MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:03 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:53 pm Bollox. Nowhere to mount it.

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Ball mount in steering stem / nut, add quadmount, profit.
You also need to top off your brake fluid
Cool.
And thanks for being observant. Just whipped top off and it's right on the full mark.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:01 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 1:59 pm If your phone has OIS or any kind of mechanical focus/zoom (rather than a digital one), like a lot of high end phones do these days... then solidly mounting it to a vibrating bike will proper fuck up the camera.
Pssst, it's Yorick asking :shhh:
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Ah, it looks like RAM actually make their own version now.

https://www.ram-mount.co.uk/activity-am ... ith-1-ball
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:34 pm Ah, it looks like RAM actually make their own version now.

https://www.ram-mount.co.uk/activity-am ... ith-1-ball
Cool. I remember seeing them in the past, but didn't twig what they were for.