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> Attaching your iPhone to vehicles with small-volume or electric engines, such as mopeds and scooters, may lead to comparatively lower-amplitude vibrations.

No superbikes for you Apple users :D - recoils in anticipation of onslaught of downvotes -

In all fairness I expect it's going to be difficult to design anything with such small delicate moving parts to be invulnerable to arbitrary frequency vibrations. It can also be challenging to accurately model the resonant frequency response of composite "stuff" prior to manufacturing it (many bridges have failed). Better luck with the next model I guess...

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I keep my iPhone in my jacket pocket and use the bluetooth module on my helmet. I also have a Garmin GPS on the handebar of my touring bike, although in 2021 you can get GPS built right into the bike's instrument panel.

(To be fair, my most preferred navigation method on long trips is to tape a piece of paper with handwritten notes to the fuel tank anyway.)

> (To be fair, my most preferred navigation method on long trips is to tape a piece of paper with handwritten notes to the fuel tank anyway.)

Nice to know I'm not alone. This is how I drive cars long distance (but without taping it to a fuel tank), smartphones are handy for quick short navigation, but I feel uncomfortable trusting it for longer journeys - I want to know where i'm going and how i'm going there.

The funny thing is that the act of writing down a summary of the journey, even with diagrams is usually enough for me to remember the whole thing.

> The funny thing is that the act of writing down a summary of the journey, even with diagrams is usually enough for me to remember the whole thing.

This is well known.. planning navigation by reading maps engaged our brains actively.. following navigation basically makes us dumb spatially

To clarify, on most motorcycles the fuel tank is directly in front of the rider's pelvis.

I think the problematic engines are big Harley twins which vibrate like hell and run relatively low revs. Superbikes engines are usually operate on high RPMs and vibrate less.

Quite possibly, in which case "No Harleys for you :D"

Nope, happens with pretty much every bike. Have heard all sorts of riders talk about this.

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