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#1 ·
Hi Everyone,

Just picked my V4S up this past Thursday, and I've been busy putting in some break in miles, and I have to say I absolutely love the bike so far. As for a phone mount, I've seen ads for the quad lock, which looks quite good, but as far as i can see, there's no place to mount it.

Has anyone found a viable solution for a cell phone mount? I've run a search, but it looks like no one has talked about this yet. The problem with the quad lock as far as I can see, is that we don't have any free space on our clip ons, and the mirror mount option won't work, since our mirrors stems aren't cylindrical (I'm planning on swapping out my stock mirrors anyway).

Please let me know if anyone has any good options, thanks very much in advance!
 
#3 ·
Revzilla claims this will work on the bike.
https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/ram-mounts-fork-stem-kit

I ordered one along with a magnetic mount (I use rubber-coated magnets to put the same radar detector on all of my bikes, however the V4 Speciale appears not to have a steel tank).

I'll let you know if I can find a place to mount it!

JK
 
#5 ·
****, I actually want to find a way to put that quad lock onto the bike, seems to be the best mounting system (for the actual phone that is), but mounting that to the bike is definitely a challenge.

On the left clipon, there’s a little bit of free space, I’ve measure it at about 13-14mm, the standard bar mount quad lock requires 16mm.

Anyone else with any ideas? If the fork stem mount that jdkerner linked above works, that’ll actually work with the ball adapter from quad lock. I really wanna stay away from a wrist case haha
 
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#34 ·
Thanks for the multitude of answers.



I really like what you did, mate. Keep an update on how well it holds up; overall, it looks pretty legit.

I live my V4S something ridiculous. I simply can’t stop riding it and doing something with the bike. I do a lot of city travel and would like to have the ability to have a gps to avoid shite traffic and shite weather.

I really love the great altruistic nature of this website and its members.
 
#7 ·
The standard RAM fork stem mount won't work w/ the rubber stopper piece, but you can use a dry wall screw in its place and it will hold probably better than using the rubber piece. That's how I ended up doing it; I thought the RAM magnet mount would be sufficient for my radar detector but a bump would knock it off so I currently use rubber bands to hold it down in place and stays put no matter the road or speed (180+mph). I plan on finding thin metal pieces I can use in place of the rubber band so I can just dock/undock easier.

This is the original setup, but I switched to the 1/2" arm so it's smaller as this one was blocking my view of the tac. Also I have a phone cover taped to the radar detector and my phone I lock in place when riding so it looks like a phone mount to the unsuspecting eye. I'll upload photos of the new setup soon.
 

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#9 ·
The RAM stem mount works, but not well. The fork stem is not a deep cylinder, just a ring; there is less for the rubber to grab and my radar detector wobbles. I need another fix.
 
#10 ·
Does this fit on the V4? Not sure which bike you show in the photos.
 
#14 ·
I am using a RAM claw mount to clamp to the top triple clamp. I got an adhesive RAM mount ball and stuck it on the bottom of my Escort Max 360 radar detector. At the moment I zip tied a phone holder to the top of the radar detector. Another option was using the RAM phone xmount with the claw clamp. The Escort has blue tooth and talks with an app on the phone. The frustrating part is that the detector will not communicate with a helmet headset. I have one of those bright led helmet gadgets that shines bright when the detector finds something. Will combine that with running the Escort app on the phone and see how that works. The claw mount is kind of clunky and easy to steal, but also easy to put on and take off.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yKenZMbrwpdDqwB16
https://photos.app.goo.gl/iY4nqmD2MamDtScQ8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/eysRqw99Uhgr79Dq9
 
#15 ·
Which size claw? Can you post a photo of the mount alone? Thanks!
 
#17 ·
Thanks! I ordered the clamp with the X-claw. So is your setup to have the Escort bluetooth with your phone, then your phone bluetooth to headset? Or do you just wear wired earbuds? I use a SENA SM-10 to transmit from a Uniden R1 to wireless earbuds or headset depending on the helmet.
 
#18 ·
At present I do not have a headset. I use this system https://www.legalspeeding.com/HARD-System.htm#.W6P0Ni-ZNBw to alert me that the detector has picked up something then I can look at the phone for more details. Not ideal and it is a work in progress. Very frustrating that I can't send the Escort audio to a bluetooth headset. The escort is great in the car because you can hear the audio alerts from the detector itself. Escort really does need to enable the max 360 to connect to a headset. It already can connect to a phone, so a headset should not require much more work. Probably just a firmware update. I bought the 360 for a car to start with.
 
#19 ·
So here is how I have mine set up, right now I only have a rubber band to help hold it down because the magnet RAM mount isn't strong enough on bumps... I will eventually get around to finding some metal or plastic pieces I can use to lock it the radar detector in place so I can just twist to dock/undock. But the RAM mount has a nice little profile, people don't know what it is and just curious what the heck my phone mount is :p
 
#21 ·
Rubber-coated magnets make a very strong connection between the metal clip of a radar detector and the RAM magnetic mount:

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/products.asp?cat=164

I use these to make a nice mount directly on the tank of most of my bikes; however three of them (Aprillia RSV4 RF, S1000RR and the Speciale) don't have steel tanks. Each bike now has a separate solution though all still involve use of these magnets.
 
#23 ·
Quad Lock Mount works for me

Hi everyone - Brand new to the forum and new to getting a V4 (picked up my V4S just over a week ago).

One of the 1st things I did was to fit a phone mount. I already had a Quad lock mount for my other bike, so used that. Took a while to fit and get the positioning right as there is zero room on the clip-ons.

I found it fitted nicely on the top yoke with the right sized rubber (included with the quad lock). It's sits quite flat, but actually I've found it's perfect, doesn't obstruct the dash at all, not does it touch on full lock to lock. I am using a Samsung Galaxy S9+ so it's a fairly big phone. See pics attached - hope it helps.

(For those of you who haven't used the quad lock mount before, I can highly recommend it.)
 

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#24 · (Edited)
Still playing around with my setup. I had the RAM claw mount to attach the radar detector then the phone on top of the radar detector. That works but bounces around a bit. I already had a small SW Motech quick release tank bag, so am trying a velcro system on top of the tank bag combined with an eBay ignition GoPro mount and a go pro mount phone holder. It is much cleaner than my other install, but I will have to use if for awhile to see how I like it. Also had a "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" moment as I had to make an aluminum shim from a coke can to get the go pro mount to tighten enough:) The idea is to run the Escort Max 360 radar detector and have the escort app running on the phone with a bluetooth connection to the radar detector.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/z4u2tCBND5KJfhwV9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/oZJMC31Vsig5s9Xc6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gMfD41Nh7eQAQSpn6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fLJa4E8UW6m9LcmK8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/R9kWFvzjMv39EaTK6
 
#25 ·
The RAM claw mount is barely large enough for the Escort 360, which is bulky. And I can't find a good mount point for the claw that doesn't interfere with the range of motion for the bars. So I'm still using the Uniden with Sena SM-10 to transmit to the helmet. Where are you getting power? I have a battery-tender SAE plug that won't work with SAE to USB converters. It only works with SAE to cigarette socket and that means using the supplied power cord for the detector. It's a bulky setup. Unlike on my other Ducatis (XDS, SuperSport S) there isn't an available power plug.
 
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