Triumph Scrambler 900
Until Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are common on motorcycles, those who love Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Glympse will have to continue mounting smartphones on motorcycles. The Peak Design Motorcycle Bar Mount is an easy and secure way to mount your phone on your motorcycle, provided you have a handlebar with a bit of spare room. Yes, we know that Apple discourages doing this—we’ll get into that later.We have lots of motorcycles running through the Ultimate Motorcycling garage. When we got the Peak Design Motorcycle Bar Mount, we had to search around for a couple of compatible models. Although the Peak Design unit will attach to round or tapered handlebars, you need room for the Motorcycle Bar Mount, and the mounting must be at an angle that works for viewing the phone. If your bike has clip-ons, you’ll want to investigate the Peak Design Motorcycle Stem Mount.After some poking around, the new Honda Monkey (round bar) and Triumph Scrambler 900 (tapered bar) got the nod.The Peak Design Motorcycle Bar Mount is a sophisticated and robust design, yet it attaches easily to an open inch of bar space—all that matters is the angle. Three included pairs of vibration-absorbing EPDM rubber collar inserts allow fitment to bars 7/8-inch to 1.25 inches in diameter—a wide enough range for most motorcycles with a handlebar.Mounting the system is intuitive, though it takes some time and consideration. If you have a wide-open handlebar or a split handlebar clamp, it’s easy. However, that is often not the case.Start by figuring out where you can mount the anodized machined-aluminum handlebar clamp on the handlebar. Then, loosely attach the mounting arm (also aluminum) and see if you can arrange it so you can directly view your phone’s screen. This may take a bit of experimentation, as it did with both the Monkey and Scrambler.As it turns out, we attached the Peak Design Motorcycle Bar Mount in entirely different places on the two motorcycles’ handlebars, though the mounting is basically the same.For the Monkey, we settled on attaching the mounting head next to where the handlebar’s left mirror mount. That gave us enough room to use our iPhone 12 Mini as a portrait display.After assuring ourselves that it would all line up, the Large Collar was inserted in the handlebar clamp so it could properly grasp the Monkey’s standard 7/8-inch handlebar.After trying a few options on the Scrambler, we decided to mount the Peak Design Motorcycle Bar Mount just to the left of the motorcycle’s handlebar clamp. In this position, we mounted the smartphone as a landscape display so it didn’t block viewing the speedometer. The Scrambler’s tapered handlebar used the mid-sized collar, allowing secure attachment.It’s easier to assemble the handlebar clamp, mounting arm, and mount head off the motorcycle. Keep it all loose for fine-tuning—hand-tighten the two arm mounting bolts first, then cinch them down a bit more using the included 3mm hex key. You’ll leave the clamp-mount bolt out until it’s time to attach it to the handlebar, as it must be out for the clamp’s jaws to open around the handlebar.With it on the handlebar, you can use the hex key to tighten it down for riding. If it’s not exactly as you like, you have three adjustment points—at the handlebar and each end of the mounting arm. The adjustments on the mounting arm are detented, so you …….
Source: https://ultimatemotorcycling.com/2022/09/22/peak-design-motorcycle-bar-mount-review-for-smartphones/