Mounting SatNav to Speedo

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Originally Posted by joshmac

It's a Road Angel Navigator 6000. Not listed by RAM

Nor by any of the others it would appear Might be possible to adapt a mount but looking at what looks like the cradle it not obvious.

I stick mine on the pointy's rev counter. It's never fallen off on it's own, but has come off in my hand and thats because when I stuck it on it was overlapping the edge of the rev counter slightly compromising the airtight seal. If its sealed properly it's not going anywhere. I teather it with a short strap around the top yoke anyway so if it falls off it's not going further than the bottom yoke.

I've tried a freezer bag in the rain but it flaps about and mists up you can't see the screen, in the rain I use a tankbag map pocket.

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave

I don't think the TomTom Rider is actually fully waterproof, think it is shower proof.

There's a lot of misinformation to this effect*, but it's actually IPX-7 compliant. I know you know what this means, but for other people's information, that's half an hour's complete submergance in water of a depth up to one meter. That is considered a suitable level of protection for most marine equipment, with only devices intended to be used underwater requiring the more stringent IPX-8 (completely waterproof) rating. I ride for prolonged periods in the rain regularly and had encountered several shoddy examples of biking equipment manufacturers' definitions of "waterproof" so looked into this in a great deal of detail when deciding which bike sat nav to buy.





*Due largely to reviews that hypothesise this, for no reason other than the reviewer's guess, "I wouldn't however expect it to survive submersion in water so consider it weather resistant rather than waterproof." from
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-rider.php

Oh and on an unrelated note; the sucker on the tomtom rider's car mounting kit denatures over time, so I imagine their other suckers also suffer from this. 30 seconds in some near-boiling water restores the sucker to its original shape and stickyness.