I have an iPhone 5 in a Lifeproof Nuud Case and a JBL Flip 3 Blue-tooth Speaker. I have flat bars on a Dahon Mariner folding bike.

I'm trying to figure out how to mount the speaker and phone to the bike. I want the mounts to be quick to remove. I also want them to be waterproof.

What's the best speaker mount and phone mount for my situation? What do you use?

Your ears and that stuff between your ears are the best protection you have during a commute. Why do you want to risk overloading them with extraneous information?

GPS and music : )

Podcasts too.

I have three of these:



Can't help you with the speaker.

Put that JBL Flip in the bottle cage.

Just Sing

I have the quadlock phone case and out front mount on all of my bikes. Very sturdy, and the case is good quality. I can pick up the bike by the phone with no problem. the case also is nice enouigh to keep on at all times. You can find it on amazon,

This.

The only reason I have a second bottle cage mounted is to hold a BT speaker. I put the speaker in the cage that's mounted on the diagonal bottom tube so it's aimed up at me. Works PERFECTLY

As for an earlier post about why anyone would want to distract themselves with music playing, it depends on where I'm riding.

If you're in a situation where playing music is a distraction and dangerous then odds are you can't hear the music anyway. On my commute I never listen to music because I couldn't do it anyway. Even minor traffic/road noise completely drowns out even my fairly powerful BT speaker.

But when I'm out in the middle of nowhere on a rail trail with very few other people within 5 miles and absolutely zero motorized traffic, I LOVE listening to music while I ride. And if a horse comes galloping up on me or another biker is yelling at me, I can still hear just fine.

I tried that for a while...

But it's really expensive to try and fight 'noise pollution' tickets in court.

(Personally I think the world is just jealous of my amazing singing voice )

Oh, so you're saying you often ride with your eyes closed? So, like Daredevil. Sounds neat.

I'll have to continue to rely on my eyes as the primary source of information gathering, like a typical sighted person.

UE Boom in the water bottle cage works for me...

I think this is Bluetooth compatible.

JBL Panniers are cool.

I picked up a used fat bike a few weeks ago that had a Rokform headset cap mount on it. I switched it to my commuter and purchased the universal bracket to put on the back of my phone case. Great mount. Picked one up for my wit as well. They have Samsung and iPhone cases made for the mounts. I purchased the universal brackets for both our phones (and in my wife's case the strap on mount for the bars instead of the much more expensive headset cap mount).

So you're one of those people I guess. Do you also drive your car in silence at all times?

There's nothing wrong with tunes during a commute especially. And I prefer a speaker as opposed to sticking earbuds or headphones on your head. I've been using a Buckshot speaker for awhile now, usually just attached with the included rubber strap, and it works pretty well. Battery life is AMAZING on it.

I've never used an actual phone mount, but I recently picked up a Scosche bike handlebar mount that works very similar to my car vent mount (spring loaded side arms to hold the phone). It looks like a nice setup but unfortunately I don't really have handlebar space for it on my bikes in their current setup.

Bike Mount for iPod | Android | Blackberry | GPS Bike Mount | HandleIt? | by Scosche

So I take it you are one of those people who think people need to listen to your music when going out bike riding? I don't care for it but as far as I'm concerned, it's a free world.

By the way, my comment--the one you quoted--was simply an expression of what I thought. I don't honestly give a damn what someone does on their bike. So if you feel the need to transform my comment to some sort of soup nazi rant, go ahead but that's not what I think. I think it's safer to use your ears to listen to traffic but at the end of the day what's safe is up to the OP or to you to decide.

I dunno, do you use your ears to figure out whether cars are approaching or your mirrors? I sure as heck hope it's the latter.

Many times wind noise drowns out all other sounds including my speaker. My mirror (and eyesight) is essential to me far more than my ears.

I use 2 velcro straps and just wrap them around the bluetooth speaker on the top tube, the speaker has a rubber base so it doesn't slip (tecevo s30) for the phone I use a generic phone holder that u found locally for 12$ that has rubber clips and a screw like rotating base.
I don't use Bluetooth speaker much on my bike anymore since I don't want to bother others with my music.