Phone mount

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 12:55 pm

What phone mount are you all using? Need to get one soon.

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 10:35 pm

Quadlock

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 11:42 am

Quadlock as well.

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 6:21 pm

A cheap one off Fleabay. Around £15.

The mount arm fits under a mirror arm onto the top of your switch gear. It'll probably vibrate like hell, I haven't actually used it yet.

Your phone goes into a "waterproof" pouch with a clear plastic window on the front. There's a "waterproof" cable slot under the phone section. I think my powerpack will also fit into that pouch, in a section behind the phone. The whole pouch clips onto a swiveling lock on the top of the mount arm.

It isn't intended to be a permanent fixture, for me. I want to calibrate my speedo, against a GPS speedo on my phone, so I know how far out it is.
Hopefully the pouch won't be too bad and will last a couple of months. It actually looks pretty robust and might even still be usable after a few years. But for around £15, I'm not really expecting to much.

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 9:53 pm

And if you get quadlock get the anti vibration add on

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 11:21 pm

I ruined two cell phones with the Ram phone holder. The vibration broke something in the camera, causing the focus to continually try to adjust. I am using aftermarket "superbike" bars with no bar end weights. After the second phone got toasted, I changed to a Garmin Zumo with the Garmin mount and haven't had any issues since.

Steve

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2026 1:59 pm

SteveG wrote:

I ruined two cell phones with the Ram phone holder. The vibration broke something in the camera, causing the focus to continually try to adjust. I am using aftermarket "superbike" bars with no bar end weights. After the second phone got toasted, I changed to a Garmin Zumo with the Garmin mount and haven't had any issues since.

Steve

I have heard of this happening. Garmin makes good stuff so I will look for one of these thanks

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 9:20 pm

SteveG wrote:

I ruined two cell phones with the Ram phone holder. The vibration broke something in the camera, causing the focus to continually try to adjust. I am using aftermarket "superbike" bars with no bar end weights. After the second phone got toasted, I changed to a Garmin Zumo with the Garmin mount and haven't had any issues since.

Steve

I've heard of this too. I think what breaks is the anti-shake mounting of the camera inside the phone. IPhone are, I've read, particularly prone to this.
Mine is the cheapo Samsung version from a few years ago, an A53. It's due for an upgrade, so if the camera goes crazy from 'the vibes man' Wink

it won't be a disaster Very Happy

Comparing the GPS speedo on my phone, to the cable drive speedo on my bike. My bike speedo reads very much higher.
Bike 20mph, GPS 15.
Bike 30, GPS 25
Bike 60, GPS 52 ish.
Bike 88, GPS 70.
I couldn't remember revs to speeds, as well as speedo to GPS speeds. But in top, it's loping along at GPS 70 on pretty high revs.
I'll increase rear wheel sprocket teeth by 2, at the next chain and sprocket renewal.
It whips up to 70+ no trouble at all, so I'd say it's too low geared.