A few years back now. My mate and I were coming back home from Maindenhead Bahnstormer Motorrad dealer. I was in my GSA, he on a 690 Duke.
Through the lanes and back roads we rode. My mate had his Ram “X-Grip” and then only a few weeks only iPhone clamped in it. The roads through the lanes aren’t smooth as you can imagine. Next thing, he isn’t in my rear view mirrors. Shit I though, has he made that corner after hitting a rather horrible bump in the road before it. Turned around, rode back to said corner. Phew he's ok, bike is on a side stand, (albeit facing in the opposite direction from home )indicator on, he’s stomping though bushes and general undergrowth whilst panting heavily in his helmet.
Transpires that he had hit the earlier mentioned bump, enough for thr”X-Grip” thingy to compress and to release the phone, which then cartwheeled it self along the road and into the undergrowth. Some twenty minutes later, between the pair of us, we found it, after he had managed to log into his iCloud (web based) account on my phone and make it do whatever it did. It looked well and truly mangled. It was not repairable at all. He was very crossed, especially as this “X-Grip” was mean to have been really good at holding any phone rock solid. The fecking thing ended up looking similarly mangled before he got back on the bike.
He swore to never to put his phone on the handlebars of a motorcycle or his mountain bike.
Luckily he had it insured via his bank.
I know the likes of ShiteLock or is it a QuadLock have come along since….
Still, if I was to mount my phone to the handlebars of a motorcycle, then it would have to be a rather nicely engineered
Peak Design product. Far more sleeker, smaller, superior and refined materials used and most importantly, a hell of allot easier to use compared to ShiteLock. Plus you do not get robbed by mean of having to buy a separate vibration damper, as it is already built into the mount.
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