The mount and clip for the XT looks to me to be a little fragile. Is it secure or should I look for some kind of locking mechanism?
The mount and clip for the XT looks to me to be a little fragile.
Ant links to those tethers
Ant links to those tethers
Ant links to those tethers
I’m sure that if Garmin and other makes of GPS devices were prone to fly out of their cradles regularly or be stolen by scrotes frequently, we’d have read pages about it in MCN or here on UKGSer. After all, there was pages devoted to scrotes stealing TFT screens and others - often mounted on scooters - stealing entire motorcycles, to ship them off to the Baltic States or Romania. That we don’t, leaves one with the only reasonable conclusion that they don’t fly out and don’t get stolen.
Conversely, if they didn't, the manufacturers and retailers of aftermarket lockable mounts would likely not produce such a thing...
They produce all sorts of ‘must have’ kit, that bods bolt on. All it does is feed bods’ paranoia and, in some cases, vanity. A good example would be the security oil filler cap, to protect all of those thousands of bikes from having sand (or was it sugar or piss) poured into their engine. Look through any Touratech catalogue, there are pages upon pages of the stuff.
To put “It’ll fall out of its mount, mate” into perspective, in all my many years of being on a bike with a GPS unit and/or years when I ran the Wapping Wanders (10’s of 1000’s of man miles) there was only ONE GPS unit that popped out of its mount. It was, I think, a Garmin Quest, which probably dates the incident.
It’s odd that I see bikes, abandon to fate all day on the street in London with no locks at all but with a lockable GPS mount and some bolt on bling to protect the rear brake reservoir. In other words, no thought or care that someone may well pinch the entire bike but paranoid that someone will pinch a GPS unit whilst paying for petrol…. And worried to hell about the rear brake reservoir. The same bods probably leave their helmets dangling on the mirror stems.
To put “It’ll fall out of its mount, mate” into perspective, in all my many years of being on a bike with a GPS unit and/or years when I ran the Wapping Wanders (10’s of 1000’s of man miles) there was only ONE GPS unit that popped out of its mount. It was, I think, a Garmin Quest, which probably dates the incident.
ahem... cough cough...
well...
Zumo 660...