If you ride a motorcycle of any form, description or size we are 1,000% certain that you have tried to find a properly decent and safe mounting for your GPS or phone so that you can use the navigation function while riding. In our case, we’ve used prestik, Duct tape, sellotape and all sorts to try and hold our phones in place. It’s a doff idea…
The problem with a lot of the products on the market these days is that they are not designed for serious or competitive motorcycle riders. They can be poor quality, are often awkward to fit and use, and sometimes your very expensive electronic device moers off and gets damaged or lost.
Curtis Mobile has a great solution.
By riders for riders:
In 2004 Curtis Mobile founder Darryl Curtis became a Garmin dealer and Bandit GPS was formed. A decade later, Bandit GPS and Boltons GPS warehouse merged and formed Navworld. In 2015, Darryl’s involvement with off-road racing and the Dakar Rally identified a need for off-the-grid connectivity. After exiting Navworld, Curtis Mobile was founded to pursue satellite communication solutions. Off-road racing is in his blood, and he is often off the grid exploring remote areas, looking for new adventures, so he knows what works and what doesn’t.
The company has expanded their offerings to any overlander, 4×4 enthusiast, adventure biker, cyclist and any off road racer or enthusiast. They do satellite phone sales and rentals and really rough, rugged cell phones and tablets. The stock the full range of top shelf Garmin wearables as well as GPS’s. They carry a wide selection of Flex Adventures portable fridges. They sell C-Tek battery chargers, and they do the J-mounts.
With races like the Roof Of Africa coming up, proper GPS mounts and cell phone mounts are taking center stage. Whether you are a racer looking for the next waypoint or following your Roadbook or a spectator trying to shortcut it to the next spectator point to cheer your favourite competitor on and you are on a bike, they tell us that the J-Mount is the right bit of kit to keep your preferred electronic device. It secures to your handle bars, is dust proof to a degree and your device can be slipped in or removed fairly quickly for that pic or video.
The mount is made from durable rubber, with a mix ‘n match set of mounting base plates and clamps so that you can adapt the units to best suit your requirements. The cell phone units come in three sizes to fit most cell phones on the market these days. The Tablet mount is to fit a standard 7” tablet used for road books. Some of the world’s top racers like Msr’s Young and Lettenbichler swear by their J-mounts.We will get one soon, put it through its paces and give you some feedback on the product.
Here is Darryl to tell you a bit more about the J-Mounts….
Go check out their online shop and have your credit card ready…. Or hidden very far away, YOU ARE GOING TO SPEND MONEY HERE…
