Mounting your GPS on your motorcycle.

There’s no doubt that mounting your GPS on your motorbike is a bit of a challenge. In the past when there were no dedicated motorcycle GPS mounts available we had to make do with what we could scrounge up or make ourselves, or adapt from other motorcycle mounts or auto mounts.

And of course back then there were no dedicated motorcycle GPS units either, so we had to use a GPS system from a car, or an adapted handheld or something like that.

However there are a few things that are unique to using a GPS unit on a motorcycle and none of these makeshift fixes did the job properly, and we had all sorts of problems with vibrations ruining our GPS units, or water, or just getting it pinched.

Fortunately GPS manufacturers like Garmin and Tom Tom came to the party and started to produce GPS systems that were motorcycle specific, and didn’t have the same problems that our makeshift methods resulted in in the past.

And equally fortunately these GPS manufacturers also included dedicated motorcycle GPS mounts with their GPS units so that we could mount our GPS on the handlebars and do it properly.

There are of course other places to mount a GPS, and I’ve seen mounts for GPS units and other things in places like mounting on the mirrors and on the fairings.

However as great companies like Garmin and Tom Tom are now providing us with great GPS systems like the Zumo 550 or the Tom Tom Rider 2nd edition, both complete with mounts, you can’t go past using the mounts they provide us.

So forget about some fancy mounting system, stick with the mounts made for the job and enjoy your motorcycle GPS mounted as it was intended.

And here’s an amusing little video we’ve come across recently about motorcycle GPS, enjoy.

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