jaxgtr

Appreciate it, a friend just pinged me and said he has an extra and will bring it to me today. Love the bike by the way, what color is that?

Mojo31

Thanks, it's a combination of matte and glossy navy with silver logos.

jaxgtr

It matches up with the wall color perfectly

SoSmellyAir

I am shocked at the price of its universal saddle rail rear mount for a Varia.

njkayaker

Having the mount closer to one end means it can fit in places where it wouldn't with the mount in the middle.

njkayaker

I don't think there's a big market for these.

Note that the other 3D printed mount mentioned up-thread (that was less complicated) was $40.

Note that Garmin sells the latest out-front mount for $39 and they make many of them.

chaadster

I suppose that would depend on the angle of the mount.

njkayaker

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With the mount near the top (near an edge), you can put the mount close to something else (like the bottom of a seat.

The Varia can be mounted upside down.

The mount would be close to an edge if it mounted horizontally. But there might be issues with it being wide (some of the prior versions were horizontal).

jaxgtr

Hey thanks again, that mount worked perfectly.

Mojo31

Promised pics and one bonus pic to show the color better.

The mount fits really close to the seat post. There is barely a gap where the flat part is. It has never moved. I attached the mount high enough where it clears the light, but where the Varia does not rub the painted seat mast.

Mojo31

Cross posted!

jaxgtr

Cool. I have a lot more seat post available, so I had some additional area to work with, but glad you mentioned it. I really like that color.

Seattle Forrest

​​​​​​More pictures of bike, please! 😁

Mojo31

Okay, but bike is on the wall and cars are in the garage, so maybe tomorrow.

Flattered you ask, but its just a 105 level Domane, not one of those superbikes that everyone gawks over.

yaw

Here is an image of the stock Varia mount as it sits on the Trek seat mast cap thing. It's not making the bike prettier but it can be lived with.

Seattle Forrest

Whatever it is, it's good looking, and you're good at photographing it. 🙂

Mojo31

Just for you, and taken with a cell phone.



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Bike is 2020 SL5 with some adds -

Fizik Carbon 3D print saddle
Carbon bars
Roubaix tape
BBinfiniti bottom bracket
BBinfiniti larger pulls wheels
Garmin 1030+
Bontrager lights
Varia
DuraAce rotors (cause black looked cooler)
Bontrager Aeolous Pro 37 wheelset
Bontrager R3 tires in 28
Stages left crank power meter

jaxgtr

So I went for a long ride today in both heavy and very light traffic. The varia worked fantastic and really glad I bought it. Appreciate everyone's input.

dilbert2000

I had an old Garmin mount laying around, so I cut the disk off and epoxied it to a piece of aluminum. I put another piece of aluminum inside the seat bag and bolted it together.
I don't want anything touching the seat post.

drewguy

I have a saddlebag that covers much of the seatpost length (the rest is a small blinky). Can the varia be mounted to the loop on the saddle bag that's made for such things, or does added motion create problems?

Mojo31

Motion shouldn’t affect it.

Seattle Forrest

Bouncing around shouldn't cause problems. Buy it from a store that has a good return policy though in case I'm wrong. 🙂 REI, backcountry.com, and many others will let you return something that isn't defective but does not meet your requirements.

I hope this is clear but just in case. The radar itself has a quarter turn mount, like most Garmin Edges. The female side of the mount that accepts the radar is made to attach to a seat post. You can attach that mount to a loop on a saddle bag, it won't be super clean or tight.

yaw

I've done a few rides with the radar-only Varia now and it certainly works well.
One of the main benefits is the ability to use much more of the road with confidence when nobody is around, without sticking to the side just in case.

The only time I can hear a car before it gets picked up on the radar is in the hills where the road twists so tightly that a car is pretty much on your tail as soon as it is in line of sight.

I've also tried it with the RWGPS phone app and counter to all previous reports/complaints and their own current user guide pages where grey means no cars and green counterintuitively means cars, the display is now green when no cars are around and then goes orange (cars) and red (fast closing speeds).

Seattle Forrest

​​​​​​I noticed this came up (at least) twice. I do the same thing. The entire city isn't gridlock like miles and miles of downtown, most of Seattle is residential with main arteries and there are a lot of quiet streets that are less convenient to drive on. I mostly choose my routes to avoid traffic (and for scenery 🙂 ). Those streets get less maintenance too though.

​​​​​​I ride out in the middle of my lane always, and consider the whole lane mine to get around potholes, and then move over to let the driver pass more easily when they're there.

That wasn't really something I had in mind when I bought it, but it seems like everyone does it once they get used to the thing. 🙂

yaw

I always ride in car tyre tracks because one of the things that stuck from motorcycling was that car tyres clean that part of the road, flinging all the crap to other parts, and specifically the centre of the lane is where all the nasty oil drops are from those who haven't transitioned to EVs yet.