Garmin Mounts

[XTC OKE]

Is it possible to take one of those garmin mounts to an engineering place?? will they be able to build one using metal???

[turtlek]

Give it a bash dude i am sure if you make enough garmin might buy the patent from you but it would be pretty expensive but i dont think it is as expensive as buying a new garmin everytime a taxi decides to jump on top of one!!

[spano]

everything is possible if you are willing to pay enough...

 

it will be possible, but why do you want do it? (presume yours cracked aswell?? )

 

a while ago I took my campag spacers to an engineering company and asked them to increase the inner diameter, they charged me R120 for the jobs (about an hours labour!)

 

but the thing that you want made, out of a manufacturing point of view is going to be difficult to make,, so be prepared to pay a few $$$$.

 

 

[scotty]

Would think metal might damage the unit, but something must be done about the cr@p mount.

[TNOSE_E]

Any ideas of how to double secure the unit? Zipties or Tape?

[Guest Big H]

I once lost my Cateye Unit. To stop it from happening again I used a piece of thinly woven braid I used to make loops for fly fishing and epoxied the one end to the unit. The other end I looped through the handlebars. It worked very well.

 

[TNOSE_E]

What epoxi did you use?

[spano]

I once lost my Cateye Unit. To stop it from happening again I used a piece of thinly woven braid I used to make loops for fly fishing and epoxied the one end to the unit. The other end I looped through the handlebars. It worked very well.

 

 

if you do that with a garmin would it still be under warranty??

[Canaris]

I use a tie cord or two to secure the garmin on the stem (just incase)

[Flemish Lion]

I once lost my Cateye Unit. To stop it from happening again I used a piece of thinly woven braid I used to make loops for fly fishing and epoxied the one end to the unit. The other end I looped through the handlebars. It worked very well.

 

 

if you do that with a garmin would it still be under warranty??

 

If your mount breaks and the unit goes missing (happened to Both SLO-Jo and IanJ) there is NO warranty either!!

[Speed Devil]

I think the problem with the brackets is that the ?curve? under the bracket has a bigger diameter than a standard stem. So when tightening the cable ties, the bracket is forced to take the shape of the stem, and thereby putting it under undue stress, whereby  the little ?lugs? under the bracket will eventually break off over time.

Wouldn?t fitting a piece of rubber under the bracket help with cushioning and a better fit over the stem?

I think due to different stem diameters on the market, this is not a problem that can have a general solution to the problem.

[jmaccelari]

I had the little tab on my mount break this Sunday. It was still

attached, so it looked OK, but was not holding the unit it.

 

My frikkin' 705 came off on the tar at 40kph.

 

I wish Garmin would sort the cr@p out...

 

[fandacious]

i remember someone contacted garmin and got replacement mounts...

 

who do i speak to?

 

[mountain_lion]

 

 

i remember someone contacted garmin and got replacement mounts...

 

who do i speak to?

 

 

PM Breeze; I received an envelope in my mailbox this week containing 2 mounts.

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=42208

 

I use rubber under my Edge 305 mounts (MTB & road). None broken yet after more than a year's use.

Needed extra mounts for training bikes for myself and Mrs mountain_lion.

Thanks again Breeze!

 

mountain_lion2009-04-04 15:16:59

[The Crazy German]

I once lost my Cateye Unit. To stop it from happening again I used a piece of thinly woven braid I used to make loops for fly fishing and epoxied the one end to the unit. The other end I looped through the handlebars. It worked very well.

 

 

if you do that with a garmin would it still be under warranty??

 

get a 60 series they have aspot prepaired to attach a strap like that

[Daxiet]

Good news to hear after just aquiring a 705, at that price the though of having it fly off at speed is very disconcerting.

 

So from what I can gather, the actual "hole/slots" that the cable ties go through break lose due to the strain?