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phone stem mount for bike

  • 26-07-2011 11:29am
    #1
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,116 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone know where to get a decent but neat mount for my phone that I can put on my bike stem. I have a HTC Desire, but I am preferalby looking for a universal mount if and when I change phones.

    Have looked on Ebay but any I can find all seem to be really big and bulky


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  • #2
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    I have a HTC desire in from of me just now. I think it's big and fragile. Do you really want to mount it on your road bike?

    EDIT: Here is a previous thread on this topic
    And another one


  • #3
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,309 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Phone on a bike stem? Sounds like a bad idea.


  • #4
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,116 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    I have a HTC desire in from of me just now. I thing it's big and fragile. Do you really want to mount it on your road bike?

    EDIT: Here is a previous thread on this topic
    And another one

    yep cause I would like to use some of the phone cycling apps to see if they are any good


  • #5
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,309 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    stevieob wrote: »
    yep cause I would like to use some of the phone cycling apps to see if they are any good

    Just carry the phone in ur pocket??


  • #6
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    I would buy a cheap cycling computer to put on the bike and keep your phone in your jersey if I were you.

    I did see a phone mount for bikes in halfords a while back.


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  • #7
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,309 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    stevieob wrote: »
    yep cause I would like to use some of the phone cycling apps to see if they are any good

    Save u the trouble..... There not. Battery life on ur phone is not good enough for long spins.


  • #8
    triggermortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭triggermortis


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Save u the trouble..... There not. Battery life on ur phone is not good enough for long spins.

    +1 on that! Mapmyride drained my iphone 3GS battery in just over an hour


  • #9
    markcroninbsc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭markcroninbsc


    Not sure about the androids (i just posted comment on the apps for iphone or android thread) but my blackberry torch will last for about 7 hours with the backlight always on with my cycling app (comming soon to android).

    the best thing ive found for a handle bar mount is to get one of those armband things you see runners with and just wrap that around the stem. sounds like it wouldnt work but it works grand for me. I've got an old cateye or something mount on the stem already, i think the flat surface of that helps to keep the armband thing steady. and the good thing about most of them armbands is that they're a little bit waterproof so they can handle a small shower.


  • #10
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,116 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    markcroninbsc wrote: »
    Not sure about the androids (i just posted comment on the apps for iphone or android thread) but my blackberry torch will last for about 7 hours with the backlight always on with my cycling app (comming soon to android).

    the best thing ive found for a handle bar mount is to get one of those armband things you see runners with and just wrap that around the stem. sounds like it wouldnt work but it works grand for me. I've got an old cateye or something mount on the stem already, i think the flat surface of that helps to keep the armband thing steady. and the good thing about most of them armbands is that they're a little bit waterproof so they can handle a small shower.

    Nice one Marc. might just try that, let me know when you app is on android


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