Originally Posted by
bluehills3149
Have you thought of buying a generic phone just for bike use? I just bought a 2015 Motorola Moto E for $30 (new) off Ebay. If I'm on a longer ride and don't want to carry 2 phones, I pop my phone's sim card into it so it works like a full fledged phone but most cycle apps work without data anyway. It is compact, water resistant and has decent battery life. To mount it I use a cheap Garmin phone mount adapter ($3-$5 on Ebay) which sticks directly on the back of the phone and an "out front" handlebar mount ($3-$5 on Ebay).
Is that one of the mounts with the 3M sticky tape that holds the back of the phone? Where you stick a clip to the phone which can be removed from the mount on the bike so the phone can be easily taken off the bike?
Have you found the glue pads to be reliable? Doe they really hold? I'm in the market for a new mount and I was looking at these but it seemed like a lot to ask for a sticky pad to hold a phone.
I'm interested in your actual real world experience with it