Camera death . Sorry to be dramatic , but phones are so expensive now that having the camera die through a lifestyle we hold dearly can be traumatic . I ’ ve been mounting my phone on the bars of both my bicycles and motorcycles five years . This is what I ’ ve found .

TOPO MAPS ON THE BARS I started putting my phone on bicycles to have Topo maps and my route easy to see . I ’ m pretty sure it was an iPhone 7 or something like that . I ’ d tried a couple of bicycle-specific mounts but they didn ’ t work all that well . In 2018 somebody recommended a Quadlock to me , so when I got my next phone , an iPhone X , I bought one . I was also running a TomTom on the bars at the time , which worked well on the road , but didn ’ t allow me to upload GPS tracks and follow them without it re-routing . So , as the Quadlock mount also fitted the bars of my BMW R80GS , it went on there too - giving me Topo maps as I rode . Great .

VIBRATION ISSUES I ran that setup for two years and it was around this time reports started to appear of the camera lens stabilisation modules on both Android and iPhones being ruined by mounting on motorcycle handlebars . My trusty iPhone X had done almost two years on the bars of many bikes without an issue - maybe I was lucky , but I think the X didn ’ t suffer all that much as it did tens of thousands of kilometres on road and thousands on gravel roads . When my

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Camera death . Sorry to be dramatic , but phones are so expensive now that having the camera die through a lifestyle we hold dearly can be traumatic . I ’ ve been mounting my phone on the bars of both my bicycles and motorcycles five years . This is what I ’ ve found .