Phone holder to follow maps

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What are you using as a smart phone holder to follow google maps?
I'm hoping to find something the mounts in the steering stem....
 
I'm in the camp of "I want my phone in my pocket in case I get separated from the bike in a crash".
I use my Garmin to see the map. If I use Google maps on my phone, I just listen to the turn by turn prompts through my headset.
There are lots of stories of guys crashing and the phone is thrown from the bike to God knows where. Or, you are thrown from the bike and injured where you can't get back to the bike.
However, tons of guys ride with their phones attached to their bike.
 
klaproth said:
Just a word to the wise...a lot of people have ruined phones mounted on bikes, due to vibration. Apple actually has warnings about it in their literature.
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There have been posts on the NC750 website saying the Quadlock vibration damper works and your iphone will survive when mounted on your bike. Fact: Apple's warranty does not cover vibration damage to their phones, so it comes down to your choice - risk the image stabilization hardware on your phone or not. This is one of those situations where there are no independent, statistically significant studies and you will be guessing based on a 'I believe it will be ok'. YMMV - or better, YAMV (apple).
 
Mellow said:
You can also land on your phone and break it.

Thousands of scenarios, you can't account for all of them, just do what you want is all you can do.
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Or go sliding for some distance and it comes out or the pocket is ripped open ... :think1: ;)
 
I think we need a SDC (Safety Drone / Crawler)...

Mounted to top box and always in idle mode.

When a crash is detected it detaches and flies - your phone is actually mounted to the drone - when it locates you via the small gps tag mounted to your jacket - it lowers or drops your phone via a parachute or cable depending on wind settings.

If, due to gps location, it detects lots of trees, it goes into crawl mode - 6 legs pop out and crawl towards you to get your phone to you.

If no heartbeat is detected it shocks you... if that doesn't work it posts an ebay link to a lightly used motorcycle for sale - along with a like-new drone/crawler.
 
If you wish to use your phone for navigation I would suggest installing one of those screens that mirror your phone on the motorcycle. Not only will you have access to all of the features of your phone but it will be on a much bigger screen. This way you still get to use your phone and your phone stays in your pocket safe from the weather and the vibration.

The below are just examples that I pulled at random. These units can be had much cheaper if you don't include things the front and rear cameras, built-in cell network connectivity, etc., etc.
There was also at least one discussion about this option- Carpuride ? anyone used this yet?

Carpuride is one example- Carpuride Car Play Screen.
Chigee is another- AIO-5 lite Motorcycle Smart Riding System.

Can anyone guarantee you that your phone will always be safe in your pocket, that it will always stay there, and that it will still work after a crash and allow you to make that emergency call for help 100% of the time? Of course not, anyone who believes or makes that claim is a fool. If you do not have access to your phone because it is not on you however, and you can't get to it after a crash, in those circumstances you are guaranteed that you will not be able to make that call 100% of the time.
 
I caved and got the quadlock. no regrets. That being said, i didn't exactly buy the quadlock. I couldn't bring myself to spend quadlock money on something i didn't know if i would use or like. I bought the aliexpress version that comes with the adapter that uses double sided tape to stick to the back of your phone and the anti-vibration thingy. All in for about $10 canadian. Since then, i bought the legit quadlock case. I have the mount on each of my bikes now, and I went and bought the quadlock case for the phone I just got as well. It's a good system, and the whole thing is modular so if you take it apart you could literally mount it to just about anything. If you've got a RAM ball that goes into your steering stem, you could attach a RAM ball the quadlock too and mount it that way. That's how I've got it on my ST right now - my helibars have the ram ball so I've attached it to that and I'm using the arm from my garmin.
 
Andrew Shadow said:
If you wish to use your phone for navigation I would suggest installing one of those screens that mirror your phone on the motorcycle. Not only will you have access to all of the features of your phone but it will be on a much bigger screen. This way you still get to use your phone and your phone stays in your pocket safe from the weather and the vibration.

The below are just examples that I pulled at random. These units can be had much cheaper if you don't include things the front and rear cameras, built-in cell network connectivity, etc., etc.
There was also at least one discussion about this option- Carpuride ? anyone used this yet?

Carpuride is one example- Carpuride Car Play Screen.
Chigee is another- AIO-5 lite Motorcycle Smart Riding System.

Can anyone guarantee you that your phone will always be safe in your pocket, that it will always stay there, and that it will still work after a crash and allow you to make that emergency call for help 100% of the time? Of course not, anyone who believes or makes that claim is a fool. If you do not have access to your phone because it is not on you however, and you can't get to it after a crash, in those circumstances you are guaranteed that you will not be able to make that call 100% of the time.
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Just to be a little picky - it doesn't "mirror" your phone. It mirrors the function of Apple Car Play or Android Auto.

That provides a lot of functionality, but not everything. For example, I would love to have RideWithGPS which is available on my phone, but it's not available on any of those accessory screens for motorcycles. Garmin (and others) makes one for bicycles, but it's too small to use on a motorcycle.
 
I have Apple Maps and Google Maps on my iPhone SE. Would one of those screens serve me well?

I can answer calls on my Sena now. Would one of these allow me to make and add incoming calls?

Are there certain features or functional differences that make some models preferable over others?

Also, if they can have video cameras built in, at least forward-facing, why not? Any disadvantages?

In other words, what's the best cheap one, or the the cheapest good one, that works well for bikes?

Is there a thorough discussion thread? I looked in the technical forum lists, but no topics stood out.
 
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Many engineering universities have an annual egg drop contest of one form of another. Students are supposed to 'package' an egg, then drop it off a designated building. Points are given for size (smaller is better), weight (lighter is better), ease of accessing the egg, etc. Maybe we should contact one of these schools and have them do a 'Cell Phone Skid Test'. The package w/ phone has to fit in a pocket and slide along asphalt for at least 175' (figuring here that @Uncle Phil does not hold the record for distance, nor does he want to.).
 
I use a Tackform vibration proof mount on the Silverwing (because wiring and mounting a Garmin powered GPS mount is a pain) and I have Garmin mounts on both STs. I rarely need to have the phone exposed and it’s normally in the locked compartment on all 3 bikes when riding. I have the Tackform on the scooter just in case I get lost, then can use it to figure out where I am, then put the phone back in the compartment.
 
ddemair said:
Just to be a little picky - it doesn't "mirror" your phone. It mirrors the function of Apple Car Play or Android Auto.

That provides a lot of functionality, but not everything. For example, I would love to have RideWithGPS which is available on my phone, but it's not available on any of those accessory screens for motorcycles. Garmin (and others) makes one for bicycles, but it's too small to use on a motorcycle.
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Interesting. I thought about one of these but I don't have one so I'm not knowledgeable about them. I thought that they were basically an extension of the phone and that whatever ran on the phone would also run on one of these.

I would guess that the primary reason for one of these is for navigation. I would assume that Google Maps and whatever the Apple version of maps is called works on these?
 
Andrew Shadow said:
Interesting. I thought about one of these but I don't have one so I'm not knowledgeable about them. I thought that they were basically an extension of the phone and that whatever ran on the phone would also run on one of these.

I would guess that the primary reason for one of these is for navigation. I would assume that Google Maps and whatever the Apple version of maps is called works on these?
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I know that Google Maps works (I've used it), I assume Apple navigation works also just as it does in Apple Car Play.
 
st11ray said:
I'm in the camp of "I want my phone in my pocket in case I get separated from the bike in a crash".
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This...
and redundancy...
and being bike powered plus fully weatherproof... (like my Garmin)...

At max I use the phone for "the last mile"... like guiding me to the cabin in the woods directly out of Booking.com...
 
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