Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
- Region
- Europe
- City
- Mazovia, PL
There is a 2017 thread about smartphone mounts for bikes but it looks like dead for a long while. Your choices and experiences for a smartphone mount? Here are mine.
Several years ago (when we all were handsome and the grass was green...), that is, in 2013, smartphones were relatively small. I used to ride a "mechanical" bike and announced to my friends I was buying a bike mount for my Galaxy S3. The comment of an experienced friend of mine was "That would survive for a day". He was right. On the next day I had a fall from almost a standstill, on a curb and the mount was gone. The phone itself survived as it was kept in some tough case.
That cured me and I have been carrying smartphones in the back pocket of my cycling jerseys since that date. This summer, following the purchase of my first e-bike, I invested in a smartphone mount again. That time, it was a discontinued (I think) Spigen mount, and my smartphone was already 6.5".... The older Spigen mount (Bike Mount Black Spigen A251) was just a disaster. The mating between the handlebar mounted part and the jaw-phone-holder was loose and apt to fall apart easily. The phone was held in the position by set of elastic rubber-bands. The mount survived for how long? Exactly, for one day. I had a bad fall with my e-bike at full speed (I didn't notice a small curb parallel to my ride line...). The elastic band of course broke, the parts fell apart and the phone hit some wall. Even if the glass phone casing cracked, putting the phone in a new better tough case helped. As for me, I had to cure some wounds...
I almost gave up on the idea of a smartphone mount for bikes until I watched some YT demo video of the new Spigen Gearlock Front Mount MF-100. The mount is revolutionary because there is no jaw mechanism anymore and the joint between the handlebar part and the phone part is really smart. You easily install the first part (the mount) on the handlebar using a hex key. Then you glue the other part to your preferred case of your smartphone (of course it is better if the case is reinforced). The smartphone part of the mount comes with a strong 3M tape preinstalled. Then locking the phone to the mount and unlocking is a trifle.
MF-100 is very strong, to some extent elastic, damping any vibration very well. I had no single case the connection failed. The release is done by pushing a small bar and rotating the phone clockwise. To put the phone on the mount is is enough to place the holder on the mount at 45 degrees and turn it anti-clockwise. So simple and effective it is.
The only downside is you probably need to buy another MF-100 for each new smartphone
I installed mounts for each of my e-bikes and keep the extra holder as a spare for the future.
And you? What do you use?
Several years ago (when we all were handsome and the grass was green...), that is, in 2013, smartphones were relatively small. I used to ride a "mechanical" bike and announced to my friends I was buying a bike mount for my Galaxy S3. The comment of an experienced friend of mine was "That would survive for a day". He was right. On the next day I had a fall from almost a standstill, on a curb and the mount was gone. The phone itself survived as it was kept in some tough case.
That cured me and I have been carrying smartphones in the back pocket of my cycling jerseys since that date. This summer, following the purchase of my first e-bike, I invested in a smartphone mount again. That time, it was a discontinued (I think) Spigen mount, and my smartphone was already 6.5".... The older Spigen mount (Bike Mount Black Spigen A251) was just a disaster. The mating between the handlebar mounted part and the jaw-phone-holder was loose and apt to fall apart easily. The phone was held in the position by set of elastic rubber-bands. The mount survived for how long? Exactly, for one day. I had a bad fall with my e-bike at full speed (I didn't notice a small curb parallel to my ride line...). The elastic band of course broke, the parts fell apart and the phone hit some wall. Even if the glass phone casing cracked, putting the phone in a new better tough case helped. As for me, I had to cure some wounds...
I almost gave up on the idea of a smartphone mount for bikes until I watched some YT demo video of the new Spigen Gearlock Front Mount MF-100. The mount is revolutionary because there is no jaw mechanism anymore and the joint between the handlebar part and the phone part is really smart. You easily install the first part (the mount) on the handlebar using a hex key. Then you glue the other part to your preferred case of your smartphone (of course it is better if the case is reinforced). The smartphone part of the mount comes with a strong 3M tape preinstalled. Then locking the phone to the mount and unlocking is a trifle.
MF-100 is very strong, to some extent elastic, damping any vibration very well. I had no single case the connection failed. The release is done by pushing a small bar and rotating the phone clockwise. To put the phone on the mount is is enough to place the holder on the mount at 45 degrees and turn it anti-clockwise. So simple and effective it is.
The only downside is you probably need to buy another MF-100 for each new smartphone
I installed mounts for each of my e-bikes and keep the extra holder as a spare for the future.And you? What do you use?
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