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Ram mount alternatives?

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Anyone have experience with cheaper -$20 handlebar phone mounts? Looking for a temporary solution until I feel like buying a ram
 
I bought a cheep one on Amazon Ben working great for 3 years now I’ll send pictures when I get home and brand


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I made one using an otter box belt clip and ram ball components. Worked out at about $25 and works great for me. However if you don’t have an otterbox on your phone it would be useless.


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I made one using an otter box belt clip and ram ball components. Worked out at about $25 and works great for me. However if you don’t have an otterbox on your phone it would be useless.


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Would you mind taking a photo when possible?
 
Sure. I will run out to the garage and take some pics for you shortly.


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Not the best pics, sorry. I will take some screenshots of the components on amazon and post them for you too. I will also update this in a couple of mins showing the phone installed. Just have to swipe my wife’s phone, take a pic and text it to mine and then upload it...y’know haha.


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With the phone mounted. It grips like a gorilla and behind the windshield of my RT gets next to no moisture. I have an iPhone 7 which is waterproof anyway.


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I used the two hole ram ball to mount to the back of the belt clip, the four hole mount is attached to my gps shelf, a handlebar ram mount would also work depending on your bike.

I cut the belt swivel out of the belt clip, notched it slightly on the bottom to allow a power cable to be used.

It’s not pretty at all, however it works great and in retrospect I am happy with the design, I just should have been a little neater with the construction.


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If you really get desperate for some more in depth pictures I can go out and dismount it and take more terrible pics if you like. However we are starting to hit the “you owe me beers” territory haha.


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If you really get desperate for some more in depth pictures I can go out and dismount it and take more terrible pics if you like. However we are starting to hit the “you owe me beers” territory haha.


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That's more than enough! Thank you!

My wife sent me this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWDCSIZ/?tag=twowhetex-20 this morning, which is what brought this about.

Mount will be going on the XRL, with the possibility of swapping between the r60/6 if it ever moves and the other beemer I'm trying to talk someone out of.
 
Doesn’t look bad, the little skinny tensioning screw on the back might need some loctite. I would also prefer that the mount be made of metal rather than plastic (I don’t know what it is made of...this is just what I would desire). That net on the back that locks the phone on is pretty much what ram does with their x grip.
I see no reason it wouldn’t work for you.
The main reason I went the way I did is the lack of handlebars on my RT. The little clip ons just have zero room to add stuff and I wanted it all up higher, the bike came with one of the crap mounts that attached between the handlebars, which made it where I couldn’t use my tank bag because I couldn’t see the gps. So I moved the gps and had an extra spot. I figured I would just pop my phone up there, which has been a good move. However, if I wanted to put a GoPro or something similar there I could do that too.


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Quad Lock but it can be expensive.

I had been eyeballing those too. They look good, sadly they wouldn’t work with the bars and switch gear on my RT. And...again...the extra space on my shelf was calling. [emoji51]

Now...after perusing the quad lock stuff on amazon, there is no reason you couldn’t adapt on if the quad lock bases to work with a ram ball, much as I did with otterbox.


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That also looks good. Did you come up with a secondary retention device or does it inspire enough confidence with its gripping ability? I think that looks like a really easy solution if it grips well enough.

This is waaay more secure than any of the previous ram or ram-style mounts I've tried.

This would be the adaptor, correct?
I used one with a threaded "stop" on it:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LPJ2742/?tag=twowhetex-20

But this is the weak point - it still wants to spin around that a bit. I just need a bit of red threadlock in there. The option you posted might actually work better than mind...
 
This is waaay more secure than any of the previous ram or ram-style mounts I've tried.


I used one with a threaded "stop" on it:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LPJ2742/?tag=twowhetex-20

But this is the weak point - it still wants to spin around that a bit. I just need a bit of red threadlock in there. The option you posted might actually work better than mind...

Yep. I think I would go with some red loctite on either of them. But it looks good. It also wouldn’t be phone case specific like mine.


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Also, depending on your use model...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VQHT97Q/?tag=twowhetex-20

I'm building a "Ram Bar" for my garage fridge with two high-power magnets on the back and six 1" balls on the front to store not-in-use RAM mounts and the like. Using those and small bolts, a retired bathroom towel bar and a pair of cheapie HF magnets with threads- I just ordered the parts last night. Will post pictures when I build it.
 
The making of a RAM Ball Bar. Skip to 7:20 if you just want to see the finished thing.

Added to watched later, gonna have some downtime surveying pipeline tomorrow.

I ended up ordering the cheap mount I posted, plus usb socket and add a fuse.
 
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