Mounting Touratech brackets?

[ianf]

After an extraordianarily long wait I've finally received a touratech bracket so that I can use my gps76s on the bike.

The question is, should there be a piece of protective material to stop the alloy backplate scratching the bar it's mounted to? If not what's the most useful lash up to prevent the crossbar getting marked up.

Ian

 

[Paul G (BHT)]

Wrap insulation tape round the cross bar first.

 

[gazza]

Thats how they come

Unfortunately thats how they come, had three and they were all the same and they are not that good a fit, however used a bit of bicycle inner tube the last time never left a mark when I took it off so it must have worked. Better solution get a RAM mount.

 

[ianf]

Thanks guys...

I've still got the rubbery strip that came with my garmin 2 bicycle mount so I'll add that to the flat side and some insulating tape to cover the clamp sides. - and hope it doesn't all work loose in riding.

 

[Mick_rw]

After an extraordianarily long wait I've finally received a touratech bracket so that I can use my gps76s on the bike.

Ian

So you were kept waiting for your kit from Touratech......so did I after phoning them up to find out what was going on, found out how it works, this is the impression I got, order stuff over internet, order goes to germany, who parcel up what your after and send to touratech in UK, they then parcel it up again and send it on to you. my order went in on the 19th, money vanished from my account on 20th recieved kit on the 28, or is that normal and I am just being finickey...

Used insulation tape when fitting bracket.

Mick

 

[ianf]

6 weeks in total... I think the order goes to tt.co.uk, who then order it from tt.de, who then post it to Wales. tt.co.uk repackage it, without bothering to add english instructions, to the billing address rather than the delivery one (work). Money goes out of accounts at internet speed though. - I thought it was good practice to charge a card only when the goods were ready for dispatch.

If it gets lost (like this one) between tt.de and tt.co.uk, then it's the customers problem rather than theirs, and emails are very slow in their replies. Phonecalls get way too elaborate with where 'your' lost delivery is. - certainly not an amazon.co.xx way of doing things.

I'll order from tt.de in future, as forcing you to use a uk distributor has to be dubious under EU regs.

Still got to figure out the fitting instructions for their aux socket via babelfish tomorrow morning too.

 

[Ghost Rider2]

Look out! TT.co.uk charge like a wounded rhino as well!!!

£51.46 for an Etrex power lead THEN had the cheek to charge £5.28 postage and packing.

When it arrives the postage STAMPED onto the jiffy bag was:

£1.39p Last time I bought a jiffy bag it was:
£0.80p No doubt they are cheaper if buy in bulk!
---------
£2.19p Total.

ANOTHER £3.09p profit for TT.co.uk

Rip off Briton again.

 

[Howard Millichap]

I'll order from tt.de in future, as forcing you to use a uk distributor has to be dubious under EU regs.

I totally agree, but they won't send an order from Germany to the UK.
The prices are cheaper in Germany and France and under EU law we should be able to buy from where and whom we like.
Could be a case for the EU competition minister. Whoever it is this week.

 

[ianf]

I've got mates/an office in Germany, easy to get around this. - Bet it is dodgy to not ship to other EU countries though.

I wouldn't mind ordering it from the uk distributor if they kept stock and it was in the hands of the post office on the day you order it.

Anyway the bracket & power socket do the trick, now to find some new roads...

 

[boxer]

Look out! TT.co.uk charge like a wounded rhino as well!!!

£51.46 for an Etrex power lead THEN had the cheek to charge £5.28 postage and packing.

When it arrives the postage STAMPED onto the jiffy bag was:

£1.39p Last time I bought a jiffy bag it was:
£0.80p No doubt they are cheaper if buy in bulk!
---------
£2.19p Total.

ANOTHER £3.09p profit for TT.co.uk

Rip off Briton again.

A tactic often used by eBay sellers. When I was buying a data card reader [about the size of a small mouse] on ebay the a seller was asking £20 P+P. When it didn't sell it was put up again only this time P+P was £10.

I've just brought a Siemens phone from Siemens UK site and it was delivered in 3 days direct from the factory in Germany.

Russ.

 

[BawdyMonk]

.....

Rip off Briton again.

Too True, I tried to buy my H&B bars through Motobins a couple of months ago.. £160 p&p!

50 Euros from Germany..

Profit is one thing, taking the P*** is another!