Tested brutally! Bicycle smartphone handlebar mounts

welcome to another episode of burn peak express and today we're going to do something a little different but pretty much the same, we're going to review

handlebar

mounts

that hold cell phones. Now you must ask yourself why you would do it. I want to do that sometime, there are two main reasons, one of them is navigation, if you are a traveler, even if you are a mountain biker, you need to find out where you are going and there are many apps that do that for us. Now, the other reason you might want to mount your cell phone on your

handlebar

s is data.

If you're using Strava or Map My Ride, you can have Bluetooth heart rate monitors, power meters, and of course there are other devices that help you monitor data, but a cell phone is the easiest entry into that, for which we have a lot of people who are actually mounting their phones on the handlebars of their bike. I want to see which of these supports will really do the best job and we. We are going to torture these tests, we are going to put the phone and we are going to hit it hard, we are going to use the new drop.

I'm not too excited about putting my iPhone in there because I have a hard time. of money and I don't want to break it, so I was able to get a sponsor to send us a phone. Samsung sent us its new Nebula that is replacing the Galaxy. This is an advanced copy. We're going to mount it there as a kind of stunt double on my iPhone, so let's start with this first one, we'll call it Mount the silico that seems to be made entirely of rubber, okay, interesting, it's actually quality, it's a little bit heavier than I thought it was going to be, let's install.

First on the handlebars it doesn't look bad. I don't like how it hangs off the back so much. I mean, whose handlebars are so big where you need all this extra. That's certainly strange. It seems safe enough. Now let's place our Samsung nebula. Here, oh guys, I think we're running into our first problem. Samsung made an interesting decision instead of going thinner, they put a 100,000 milliamp hour battery here. I don't think this phone fits in here, so I'm just going to use it. The iPhone hopes for the best, they make it quite comfortable, it's not that easy to put on and take off so it moves around a bit and honestly I think that's probably a good thing if you hit bumps you don't want.

Be rigid, snap and break something you want to move. One thing is for sure. My Face ID doesn't work because it's covering my phone's camera, so I have to type the passcode to open it. I can't do it either. There are a lot of gestures on the phone because the corners are covered, the whole phone is hard to use, but I say let's get this out on the road and see if it actually holds a phone, it's foreign baptism of fire. The tire is underinflated and I think. It may have gone out of account. I barely have any air in it which made The Descent more interesting and if you look at the phone case it doesn't look like the phone is in danger of falling out but it definitely moved.

Do you want to ride a mountain bike? With this, I think that from that test I could say that it is probably not because of our own curiosity. I think I want to get this out of the driveway and see how it will have a big impact. The stranger didn't move as much as the rock guard is in the same place none of this slips out of the way. I say let's take it out of the Memorial drop drama and see what happens, so we've already learned something, many successive bumps, like the rock garden, are actually more killer. on these phone holders, it's just big, single impacts, which was by far the biggest impact of the day.

I mean, I applauded, my suspension worked well, it might be the kind of thing you have to take care of and that's the only thing I'm worried about. This, like I said, has a tendency to drag, that's something we're going to pay attention to with the other phone cases, do they want to drag? Handlebar guys, we really did a number, ah, we really did a number on this tire. oh no God, I'm not even thinking about what I'm doing. I'm trying to rush this right now. I just hate tire problems. Go to the next one. This is the vup plus.

The universal bike

smartphone

mount is very similar in design to the silica one, but it's a little thinner, it doesn't have as many things hanging off it, so you push it in and it comes off. One thing I will say is that it is easier to put on while out of the phone it feels tighter and more secure than our last model, that's good. The nice thing about the vup is that when you don't have the phone connected, you can still leave this holder here and not have the rest hanging up. around and I like that, wow this is much more streamlined so after tightening it to a certain point the thread pops out it's a plastic strap so no wonder now we should be able to hook it directly yeah it's Oh , ooh, that's not good, we push it in and twist it, how do I put it in?

So I have to give this a low usability rating. This thing moves very easily. It drags across the handlebars. I'm not going to fall into a rock garden with This thing can't squeeze it as tight as the other one. I'll just say that this is a straight flop. You don't want to put even a cheap phone on this because even a cheap phone costs a couple hundred dollars. so we have the Samsung nebula. I'm going to put this on the bars. Oh, I get a call. Hey, don't worry guys, it was an unwanted call. Well, we have our nebula secured.

We have this on. bars as tight as I can, let's drop into the rock garden and see how it goes. I don't know, I underestimated this thing. I think you could use it walking around a city, no problem, you hit a couple of potholes. get a big hit you'll be fine, I wouldn't recommend it for mountain biking, it makes too much noise, it rattles and like I said there's that handlebar slipping issue, it moves too easily so if you're going to hit a lot of bumps for a couple of hours, you'll be constantly taking care of this thing and putting it back where it's supposed to be, so maybe for traveling it's good, but for everything else, I'd say no, for those of you who They are crying because I tried this. thing with a big, heavy phone, I'll let you know it weighs less than an iPhone.

The Samsung Nebula weighs 5.5 ounces. The iPhone weighs seven and a half ounces, so we were actually being careful. Well, the next product here. I have the perfectly reasonable name for Gub. a phone holder. I hear a lot of metal here, it seems to be a lot beefier than some of the others, like I said, although being stiff isn't necessarily a good thing, sometimes you want it to give a little when we're having trouble, this seems well thought out. In fact, I'm just going to look at the instructions and make sure I get it right, just to be fair, they are using texting-like lingo in the instructions, they said. please PLS this is awesome so the controls here are pretty simple just turn this and it closes unfortunately it's not going to block our nebula it's like it's twisting so I'm going to use my iPhone.

The good news is that it seems. to be pretty sure, oh yeah, there's nothing you can do to make this work, we have to go up here on the handlebars to make it work. I would say that for a mountain bike this is definitely not ideal, now the good news. Is everything very safe? I don't feel weird tightening this on my handlebars because there is a rubber pad between the clamp and the bar stem. In an accident, not good, this could be a prohibited option for mountain biking. the door let's take it to the rock garden and see how it does overseas so it's going to be the hardest hit you can take with a handlebar mounted phone so I'd say this passes with flying colors it's great for a motorcycle Maybe for a bike commuter, the fact that it sticks out and is metal and has sharp things sticking out doesn't feel great to me for mountain biking, so we've explored three different styles of handlebar phone. headlines and we move on to the fourth and last, this is very popular, it is called quad lock, you will not find any spelling mistakes in the instructions here, it has one major disadvantage and that is that you have to change the case of your phone and then you can get a variety of holders .

I chose the stand that I thought was the best, so we're going to put my iPhone on this one, hopefully it fits. The case is super pretty. I actually like this case better than the one I got from Apple, it has grip but is still soft enough that I can get it in and out of my pocket. I could just leave this case behind. The build quality of this stand is truly superior to the rest of the ones we reviewed today. It means it's lightweight, it's solid, it's well designed in each piece, they list the actual diameter of the bar and this is for 35 millimeters.

I don't have to put any padding. I can attach it directly to my bar. It's plastic over carbon, so it's fine. tighten it reasonably, not too much, now I can put the phone in the case and just put it in place and it won't spin, it won't come loose unless I press this button then twist it and then it will release. It is very intuitive. I heard a lot of people talk about this. I've seen them and they deserve their reputation so far but we still have to go through a rock garden and we still have to do a couple of jumps and falls so that will be the verdict so I have to say pretty spotless, nice and secluded, it provides just enough to provide some shock absorption, it doesn't move when you hit that thing on a hardtail, something I don't like to do.

Hardtail bikes are fun, it's not fun, it's brutal, it's just like the old dramatic crash, so we did it, it seems like this mount was successful too, it didn't even show the slightest signs of giving in, so let's go back to the garage and Let's wrap this up, so what did we learn today? I would say for casual driving. around town or whatever you can use any of these, they all did a good job holding the phone. I would say this was the most iffy one with this little thing on the swivel. I'm not a particular fan. silico, although it was a little bulky and ugly, it was quite secure, it held the phone with a little slip on the handlebars, but it is really secure because it is made of rubbers for the price and functionality, this is not bad.

I wouldn't make any mountains sustained for a long time. the bike goes down with it because it will probably go up the handlebars. I have to say it's really safe, I'm not a big fan of all the metal sticking out in terms of rider safety. I have to say it's a little doubtful now if you're actually mountain biking and want to use your phone as a cycling computer. A Quad Lock style solution seems to be the only way to do it. She's so sure. The really very stylized pose does not pose any kind of security risk.

The only drawback of the Quad Lock besides paying. a bit more is that your phone has to work in your ecosystem, so if you have some new and advanced phone like samsung nebula, they don't justify it because it doesn't work with quad lock, so you would have to have a popular phone. like the Samsung Galaxy or the iPhone. I hope you enjoyed trying out these phone holders with me today. I know it's a silly video but I really enjoy making them and I'm going through some pretty tough times right now and being able to share these experiences with you and just have an excuse to get my bike out of some falls is really fun so thanks for watching , if you haven't subscribed yet, we post a video on Burn Peak Express every Sunday, thanks for riding with me today I'll see you next time abroad