Phone cover to mount to bike? (~15mm dia sat nav mount)

[Prof Prolapse]

Due to last weekend's exploits ahead of the Goodwood Festival of Speed my mobile phone is now somewhere in the English channel and I need a phone cover for my newly borrowed iPhone 5SE.

Can anybody recommend a phone cover that is compatible with some sort of mount I can attach to the bike? Ideally for viewing I'd like it to mount to the "sat nav" point, so that's a bar that is about 15mm in diameter.

The ones on fleabay seemed more biased to bicycle handlebar sizes...

Cheers,
PP

Edited by Prof Prolapse on Thursday 19th July 11:33

[Private Pile]

I think Lidls have shove bike cases in at the moment.

[Jazoli]

Have a look at www.sp-connect.co.uk

Quality product

[Hungrymc]

Prof Prolapse said:

Due to last weekend's exploits ahead of the Goodwood Festival of Speed my mobile phone is now somewhere in the English channel

Edited by Prof Prolapse on Thursday 19th July 11:33

Is the story somewhere on another thread? If not, I think we need to hear more.

[Prof Prolapse]

Hungrymc said:

Prof Prolapse said:

Due to last weekend's exploits ahead of the Goodwood Festival of Speed my mobile phone is now somewhere in the English channel

Is the story somewhere on another thread? If not, I think we need to hear more.

Well.. Not much to say really. I was in Brighton on a stag do, drinking on the beach, stripclubs, etc.

We went down the pier and I thought, "this sunset would make a great picture, but best to steady the phone and reduce the blur", so I leant it it on a handrail, didn't realise it was wet, then watched powerlessly as it slipped out of my grip, spun through the air, before flickering as it sank into the abyss. Obviously I'd been ignoring the requests to "login to back up", for a month prior as well.

According to my closest "friends" it was hilarious.

[podman]

I had this Ultimateaddons set up on my Firestorm and have just fitted it to my S1000 using a handle bar mount from eBay, mount only cost £6.

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Case

https://ultimateaddons.com/products/apple-iphone-5...

Its shrugged off a couple heavy showers(remember them..) so cant fully verify the waterproof claim but no reason to disbelieve it....Alas it wont make a phone float...

[mak]

Can you not just use one of these x grip things ? I have a cheap sat nav mounted in mine and just leave it in, I can stomach this flying off or being pinched but if I loose my phone its a world of pain ( obviously I don't back up like yourself )

To be honest I stuck it on there hoping it would allow me to find new routes and have the odd venture away from my usual roads but you cant see fook all when the suns on it, and that 90% of the time .

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[syl]

Ram mounts must have something suitable.

[Prof Prolapse]

Thanks all. The main problem is the fact I want to attach to the sat nav mount and the width of that bar is very narrow. In fact the only two I can see which fit without modification are the "Quadlock" and (possibly) "Ram" variant mounts. They both seem to be designed for wing mirrors, so I need to confirm the adjustment in angle is ok...

As for the light on the screen, yes, very much a pain in the arse on my last set up (I made a bracket myself but it does look a bit st). I'm hoping that by moving it to the new position, it will be much better for reducing glare. Thankfully though we don't get much of that up in Scotland...

[NAS]

Had a Ram Mount with a X-Grip on my SP1. No issues, even with longer autobahn stretches at 120mph+.

[Dibble]

Another vote from me for the Ultimate Addons stuff. Definitely waterproof and used their stuff a few years now.

The only thing I’d be unsure of would be whether they have a “bar” mounting option. I seem to remember they do have ball, ram, handlebar etc options, so it may be worth having a bit of a trawl through their website/eBay shop.

[miconone]

I think a ‘quadlock’ may be ideal, it will hold a phone portrait or landscape.