Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)
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> high-power motorcycle engines
Neither “high-power” nor “motorcycle” are words I would use to characterize the vehicle in that advertisement.
Words I would use are 'manipulating gig workers nto thinking they can/should/must own a phone that far exceeds the value of their scooter.'
I have a Mac (computer) that I used for work stuff but I will never get the cult-like fantacism that drives the mobile phone sales side, even this ad screams of RATM No Shelter:
The poor adore keep fiendin' for more
The thin line between entertainment and war
Fix the need, develop the taste
Buy their products or get laid to waste
I had an older iiphone (sub 9) and the reason I got it was because the app I used it for pretty much abandoned Android support entirely, nothing on the Android version worked and was not being updated despite a significant outcry for support. It then died when I took it to EU (where they have almost no penetration) and used a phone charger and lost like $60 worth of Bitcoin on that phone.
I'm glad I'm a millennial that never got sucked into these stupid things, unlike most of my generation: I almost always have a laptop on me that can do everything a mobile phone can do with a much better UX and security/privacy,
With that said, I drove with my older S. Korean made LG Android on my motorcycles all the time and never had an issue, so... blame Foxconn made QA?
Motorbike GPS, and more broadly mapping, is one of the main uses I get from my phone that my laptop can't provide. Also music, when out and about. Other than that, my phone sees little to no action. During COVID lockdowns, it would gather visible dust from lack of use. That's why I like looking out for deals on refurbished iphones, so I can keep them for a long time, while also getting updates.
That was one of the surprising marketing lessons for the early iPhones and is a well known social phenomenon.
I love when people who don’t know any poor people go on these rants.
I don't think that invalidates my position, or argument: hence why I said that laptops provide a better UX, if I had been introduced to the bloated, spyware ridden version of the Internet provided by mobile as my first experience online, I'm pretty sure I would have never bothered. It is such an inferior version of the internet demanding more and more of the person's privacy in order to just to use as Surveillance capitalism relies on it's users data to be the ultimate product.
> I love when people who don’t know any poor people go on these rants.
And I love it when people's biases make them so blind they can rationalize the perverse system, that they likely benefit from one form or another, that underpins it and try to sound righteous (we help the poor) in the process. This is exactly what fueled the cult of effective altruism and why it was as effective as it was as it gave grifters a way to rationalize their cons.
Nah, I'm not blind the the perverse incentives but ...
> I'm glad I'm a millennial that never got sucked into these stupid things,
I'm not blaming the poor people for their problems.
"Poor" people don't ever have the $800 needed to buy an iPhone at one time, like ever.
This makes a lot more sense when you look at less rich countries and see how much less popular iPhones are. It's only in America where people who aren't in poverty but rather deep into the lower class that will make sacrifices so they can buy an iPhone, or worse, pay $1600 over a two year payment plan and then UPGRADE after the plan is through. Americans are so terrified of being SEEN as poor, because they know how they vote for poor people to be treated.
Well said, and hence why I quoted Rage Against the Machine who later go on to say on a track for Sony's Godzilla movie no less:
Godzilla pure motherfucking filla'
Get your eyes on the real killa'
Despite being from the US, I will never understand this 'culture' and it seems so vapid and fake until you realize that is exactly what most people want out of their relationships as a whole: something so trite and cliche that fits in within the confines of a narrow attention span and is equally digestble on social media that signals to other like minded people in kind. The people who I see using phones as a status symbol are often the least economically stable I know: think children/teenagers or those older who simply have no other assets or investments to speak of.
I would assume though that phone cameras are damaged by higher frequency vibrations, a big component of which is speed and type of tyres/road condition
Declining to call it a motorcycle because the motor is small relative to other motorcycles is little more than snobbery, and it's a snobbery that discourages people from buying a (larger) motorcycle that fits their needs, because of a historic arbitrary distinction between small and large motorcycles that require separate licensing for large motorcycles; a distinction that should be eliminated either by applying licensing requirements uniformly to all motorcycles or uniformly eliminating the licensing requirements from all motorcycles.
Here, a scooter like that you can't even drive in a highway - restricting its use to a city makes it much safer.
Last time I looked at it small bikes, generally used by delivery drivers to be fair, vastly overshadowed any other motorcycle accidents.
On the same note death rates per vehicle on the road was lower for motorcycles than all other vehicle classes and a large portion of those deaths were passengers on a motorcycle and not the driver.
This was all from the mid 2010s though. The statistics showed more to me that wearing correct protection equipment significantly reduced your chance of dieing, the displacement of the engine or even the type of motorcycle had some impact but definitely wasn't a major factor.
Smaller bikes/scooters (you can drive them with a car license in my country if they are under 50cc) have a max top speed of 50km/h (31mph).
On the other hand, one of the most popular motorcycles (Yamaha MT-07) does 0-100km/h (0-60 mph) in under 4 seconds and can reach speeds of over 130 miles per hour. There is a lot that can go wrong if you are not careful. Also, it is almost twice as heavy.
If one wishes to take the perspective that licensure helps prevent injuries and death, then apply the licensure requirements to these lighter vehicles too. If one prefers the perspective that all such transport is inherently risky, and thus prioritize personal responsibility and assumption of risk, then let's get rid of the licensure requirements, which will surely help get more people out of their 4-wheelers, with knock-on improvements for the environment, traffic congestion, and parking. My problem is with the arbitrary distinction in the middle.
They require a licence to drive, but the licence tests aren't as thorough as the tests to drive a motorcycle.
At least in my country, it's not a question of engine size but of having a step-through frame. A Vespa with a 300cc engine would usually be called a motor scooter, a CB125R with a 125cc engine is a motorbike.
Of course, my country's parlance is wildly inconsistent. Some motor scooters are also known as 'mopeds' despite not having pedals. E-bikes have motors and pedals, and yet aren't called mopeds or motorbikes. The tax authority considers motor scooters to be motorbikes. Certain motorbike tax bands call the vehicle a 'bicycle'. E-scooters are scooters with motors, yet aren't called motor scooters. 'Bikers' refers to motorcyclists, and 'cyclists' to bicycle riders. And so on.
I don't think it's in any way arbitrary. There are speed, engine, and other differences, affecting skill levels required and potential lethality...
Why does that matter to the government? It requires skill to use a knife, and if it's mishandled it can cause severe bodily harm; should we require people to get a license to use a knife in their own kitchen? If it's because of the potential lethality to others, then surely we ought to require licensing for all motorbikes (including small motorbikes); what if a toddler wanders into the bike lane where these small-engine motorbikes are permitted?
> speed
Non-motorized cyclists can hit speeds of over 120 km/h (admittedly an extreme case, but still): https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/122... . Should we require licensing for non-motorized bicycles simply because the vehicle has the potential to hit a certain speed? Wouldn't it then make more sense to require licensure for anyone who travels faster than a certain speed, and for any two-wheeled vehicle to be registered and plated?
Again I concede that there are naturally differences between large- and small-engine motorcycles. My point is that regardless of which rubric you choose, whether it's safety, skill, whatever, the decision that a mechanical engine requires licensure but an electric one does not, or 125cc motorcycles require licensure but "electric bicycles" do not, wherever that line is drawn is there for historical reasons only, not because of the safety or skill rubric, and therefore is arbitrary, therefore is unjust, therefore should be reformed to be more consistent than just whatever we have today due to historical accident.
It doesn't. It matters to the law, which is a different thing from the government.
And it matters because it matters to society whether someone with insufficient training and testing rides a huge motorcycle, or a truck, or whatever. Especially something like a sports motorcycle which needs more skill than an average car, and is much easier to slip (as accidents stats tell).
>Non-motorized cyclists can hit speeds of over 120 km/h
Rarely and in extreme conditions. Big motorcycles can do it trivially.
The world cycle record is 130 km/h, under very special circumstances and for just 200m or so. The highest end of the speed pros usually achieve is (according to wiki) around 70 km/h, quite less than 120 km/h. Not to mention a motorcycle (especially the kind more heavily regulated) has much more weight than a bike, and thus much more momentum even for the same speed.
>It requires skill to use a knife, and if it's mishandled it can cause severe bodily harm; should we require people to get a license to use a knife in their own kitchen?
I'm pretty sure people are allowed to ride any size of motorcycle in their own kitches or their backyard even. It's when they ride them on the road, and this can kill others, that it gets to be a concern for the law.
The same holds for knives btw. Carrying a knife in the streets in many jurisdictions is considered an offense, similar to carrying a gun. It sure is in mine.
And in general, for all over the US I read "(...) there are often limits on knives or bladed weapons that may be carried. Most states regulate an individual’s ability to carry a knife based on the following characteristics of the knife itself: The type of knife, including the purpose in which it is typically used for; (...) The length of the blade.".
As this is the crux of your argument, please provide data showing how large motorcycles are so much more lethal for pedestrians compared to cars. Because all the statistics I'm familiar with (and I do take issue with them) show risk for the riders themselves, not for others.
I don't deny that, of course, if you hit a pedestrian in a 500cc motorcycle going 50 km/h then the pedestrian will certainly suffer major injuries if not death. The difference is that the rider will as well, unlike a 4-wheeler that wraps its driver in a roll cage, seat belt, and airbags. This mutually-assured destruction, I argue, causes motorcycle riders to generally be safer on the roads vis-a-vis pedestrians, and that this should hold true regardless of licensure.
it has a motor
behold: a motorcycle https://productnotes.com/uploads/default/optimized/2X/5/5313...
This is a motorcycle: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpoydU...
Also: Vibration spectrum and power distribution probably also make a Zuge difference (for the iphone's lens/autofocus mechanism)
Electric motorcycles are also really smooth.
And it does work, I would have over 150 recorded swimming workouts (45 minutes to an hour each) on my Apple Watch SE.
What do I mean? In hardware manufacturing lines, if you guarantee water immersion, you actually do that test as part of manufacturing, either using real water or something known as "dryleak" where you gauge air displacement in a fitted and known volume fixture.
Apple and most phone manufacturers aren't going bother with that test since it's extra labor and time, so they instead live with never warranting it.
It doesn't take much to have a water ingress issue. Even a tiny tiny defect in the adhesive gasket gluing the phone together can lead to ingress.
They'll argue (maybe rightfully so) that a water resistance rating is not the same as the pressures of swimming. Just dunking something does not do anything such as swimming strokes that could force water into the watch. I find it a little absurd that people won't wash dishes with a 100m resistant watch, but then again, I'm not sporting a 5 figure watch either.
Many threads with complaints that people are using their Apple Watches as intended and as marketed, but once there is a bit of water ingress, Apple will not cover the damage (outside of normal warranty period).
*but we don't recommend you use it beyond 40m and may degrade over time.
Worse than that. It was tested and as soon as you pass 40m, it gives a warning, stops displaying the depth and just tells you ASCEND. Once you are above 40m it functions again but the No Decompression Limit is no longer reliable, as it doesn't track the actual depth you were at, while >40m.
Anyone going deeper would be doing tech diving and would need to be using a proper dive computer.
> Always use a dampener with your iPhone when riding as shown. Use only with low-powered bikes and avoid prolonged use.
It always disappoints me regulators just let this kind of faux-disclaimer slide. This is just lying with your fingers crossed behind your back.
(sometimes people who take this pill start pooping and never stop pooping again for the rest of their lives which are thankfully rather short, and on a few occasions people have immediately burst into flames and started screaming in pain but their bodies refuse to die for some reason)
You should ask your doctor if girexamusib is right for you. *images of children wearing white clothing and running through wheat fields and blowing dandelion puff seeds into a beautiful sunset play while the tranquil music of heavens elevator plays softly in the background*
is incredibly terrible for all of the worst reasons.
(though to be fair to the other commenters, the vibration there is probably greatly reduced due to the fact of being more a scooter than a motorbike - being kept loosely on a holder instead of clamped also helps)
Nothing to say about the product, but man I needed to comment on the video that the product page shows. I think they did a fantastic job with it.
There was something utterly satisfying to me, about the detail of adding a "click" sound every time the image shows someone snapping a phone into its mount. I just assumed it as a natural and expected sound since the second instance when it happens.
In olden times, the former would make your phone wet via vibration (how left as an exercise to the reader) while the latter would attenuate or suppress or reduce vibration.
A damper [1] doth damp, dammit.
I eagerly await Steinway's new piano featuring a dampener pedal.
> dampen (v.) 1630s, "to dull or deaden, make weak" (force, enthusiasm, ardor, etc.), from damp (adj.). Meaning "to moisten, make humid" is recorded from 1827.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/dampener#etymonline_v_36691
> dampener (n.) > "one who or that which dampens,"
It's an older phrasing, but it checks out.
> How To Use Damper In A Sentence
The rain put a damper on our plans for a picnic in the park.
...
Examples Of Using Dampener In A Sentence
The rainy weather put a dampener on our outdoor plans.
The vibration-dampening mounts for phones are so ugly and add significant bulk to the phone.
The CarPlay interface is quite responsive. I have it retransmit audio to a Bluetooth speaker bar (Kuryakyn or something of that nature) and there’s a slight delay between clicking the play/pause and it being transmitted in the speaker. It’s noticeable but fine and you could probably reduce it by transmitting directly to the speaker instead of via retransmit (but you’ll have to select the output each time on your phone via this route since it expects to use the CarPlay speaker). You can of course use the CarPlay device’s speaker too but I wouldn’t recommend it on a motorcycle!
I also have a CarPlay wired - to - wireless adapter and there’s more delay with that than with this IMO.
* The screen is not transflective (e.g. Garmin Edge, Nintendo Gameboy -> more light is better)
* The device isn’t made for heat or cold (Garmin allows -20 to + 60, an iPhone can only operate between 0 and +35 which is easily reached in sunlight at modest outside temperatures)
* The battery will be quicker discharged and you want be reachable
* It not hardened against forces, especially the glas display and (even worse) the Glas backside can and will break
* It is a distraction (danger)
* No mount built-in
PS: I cannot recommend any device from Apple for sport. The phones are too big and the Apple Watch cannot even broadcast the HR to an Apple TV. Yes! Lol! Apple is now incompatible to Apple!
Apple will allow you to connect sensors to their Watch/Phone in future (iOS17). Which is again bad because you’re not allowed to connect the Watch to a cycling computer (or Apple TV). Apple just wants your data, not providing a good device for sport or any outside activities. The complete industry outside of Apple is bidirectional compatible (you can connect anything to anything by ANT+ or BLE).
The advice that he gave was: "Well just keep driving, if you make a mistake you simply take the next exit and come back". Which again I think is pretty good advice, you get used to do that and to drive by either memory or instinct.
I do somehow still feel that I need the map, at least in some situations, the city where I'm living at the moment is literally a "spaghetti" of roads and very easy to get confused. Guess time will tell which works better for me.
I feel like (at least in my circles) texting and driving/distracted driving in general was a big deal in the early 2010s, but now people seem to have accepted that they'll send a text on the highway. It's upsetting to say the least.
People texting is what absolutely scares me more about driving a motorbike, when I'm riding I'm always wondering if the vehicle that's behind me is far enough from me and wish just that is not manipulating a phone.
Safety is essentially the only reason I'll give a driver a bad rating.
How?? There's already a screen or at least dials in the same spot (I have my phone mount center bars). I'm not some bird, having my vision distracted by notifications popping up; the dials are moving around anyway. If I need it, it's there. It's a HELL of a lot better than squinting at street signs of trying to figure out what lane to be in. If I don't need it, I feel zero urge to look at it. It's far away, it's the same brightness as everything else, I don't understand what could be distracting about it.
> The advice that he gave was: "Well just keep driving, if you make a mistake you simply take the next exit and come back". Which again I think is pretty good advice, you get used to do that and to drive by either memory or instinct.
Safety on a motorcycle means knowing your escape routes, being early to turn, making sure you aren't even giving drivers the opportunity to be surprised. You want to merge into a lane before it ever gets crowded. You never want to be let into a lane, you want to switch while space is completely open.
Planning is the essential difference between a car and a motorcycle. To turn a car, you turn the wheel. Turning a bike is a 3-step plan. If you just turned, you'd tip over from centrifugal force. So you commit to a lean angle before you even enter the turn. To create the lean, you have to turn the bars opposite the road direction, to countersteer. So you plan that step too. But you also have to plan for avoiding something mid-turn, so you have to get a lean angle that allows you to adjust in a safe direction.
The point is, you need to know where you will be going. Having directions is a major part of that. If you live on a grid with numbered streets- fine, go for it. But in a city with even moderately complicated roads, or a crowded highway, having directions DOES make you safer.
Screen is good enough to be used in a sunny day, phone will easily reach more than 35 degrees if you play a graphics-heavy game, so this is also not an issue, battery with a battery saver mode will easily last for a few hours even if you use Google Maps all the time, and with a good mount there is a zero chance you will drop your phone and break something.
Source: Apples documentation and my own surprise when it did.
I don’t know much about games but assume iPhones can and will limit the core frequency before the self generated heat will be an issue. What they cannot control is the environment.
In this context "don't mount any phone ..." is wrong. If you want to say "don't mount your main phone", you are right, I never do. Only when I cycle I use Strava on the main phone in the pocket, not on the handlebars, but this is not the use case in the article.
Nobody is reading texts on a motorcycle. Well, except maybe those guys on mopeds without helmets. If you're listening to music or directions, having the volume easy to reach is a strict improvement over having it in a pocket.
Reasons:
* Phone interfaces (maps, almost any app) are designed to have your full visual attention. They don't mind changing (zoom levels on maps, the evil bastards) to look more interactive.
* A specialized GPS will have its interfaced designed for "glance interactions." You peek at it, then go back to riding. If you have to touch something, you'll poke it with a high error rate, and the interface has to not completely screw up. That means keeping the "stop navigating" button far away from the "find next gas station" button.
* As you said, physical concerns: vibration, heat, cold.
* The GPS is mounted to be pretty theft proof. Phones you always have to take with you.
* With gloves, the touch screen is only 4x as large as my thumb. The only people I see successfully using it have cut the thumb and forefinger off their gloves.
When biking, I can easily tap on either of these while holding the phone with one hand.
OTOH, Apple Maps and Google Maps require pinch-to-zoom... which is incredible hard to do with the hand that you're holding the phone. And using a phone with both hands while biking is pretty darn risky.
It would seem that nobody at either the Apple Maps and Google Maps teams use their product while biking.
Runners are happy with it. Cyclists already have something else. There's nothing nefarious here.
It also sounds like you don't know that much about motorcycling. MANY bikes include a USB port close to the cockpit so that a device can draw power in use, so the battery thing isn't really an issue. There exist shock-absorbing mounts that will protect lenses and other aspects of the camera.
I don't know any serious cyclist who uses a phone as a head unit, though.
People just starting out often do, and are mostly using an app like Strava to display speed and track the ride, but once they get into the hobby much further they'll buy a Garmin or Wahoo or Karoo and use that. This purchase seems to come soon after the tight pants and clipless pedals, but not LONG after.
A purpose-built device is a better choice for plenty of reasons.
- Phone batteries are better now, but keeping your screen on for 60 miles is not a great move IF you also want to be sure you can use your phone for calls.
- Device screens are optimized for the kind of direct-sun, off-angle reading you're doing on a bike. Phones work less well.
- Phones are big and awkward compared to even the largest bike computers, which makes for a goofier mounting situation.
Using a phone for navigation on a motorcycle makes a little more sense, because you can have a power feed, and there's more room in the cockpit (typically).
Why would you expect to be able to broadcast HR to an Apple TV?
In terms of Apple 'just wanting your data'. They don't get your Health data. It sits on your device. It exports quite happily from Health to, for example, Stava
Use an old or a cheap smartphone or tablet with GPS. Install a decent navigation software with offline maps (e.g. Osmand). Remove the sim card. Turn off Wifi. Familiarize yourself with the software so you don't get distracted by any obscurities while driving. Try it out before you go on long trips with it. With Osmand, you can even freely customize the user interface to suit your preferences and needs.
If you use it like a navigation device, it won't be more distracting than a navigation device. And it's a good way to reuse old hardware.
QuadLock sells a "dampener" accessory, so in total I'd say they're scamming you for not making that the default, and damaging your device in the process.
Official support page on the matter, even iFixit have recommended not mounting iPhone's on handlebars for years
"Exposing your iPhone to high amplitude vibrations within certain frequency ranges, specifically those generated by high-power motorcycle engines, can degrade the performance of the camera system."
No, it doesn't kill your camera, it just "degrades" it to the point of unusability. Your battery didn't explode, it just experienced a "thermal event"! Your screen isn't cracked, it just has "user-induced fragmentation anomalies"!
My rocket didn't explode, it "spontaneously disassembled" mid flight.
That deployment that pushed me beyond my physical and emotional limits, of which I may never recover, was "challenging".
That absolute cluster fuck of a rollout "presented opportunities to improve our organization".
It's just the fact that continued degradation will result in a non-functioning device eventually =)
Contrast that with all the intensifiers used when describing the circumstances. It's not vibrations from motorcycle engines causing it, it's "high amplitude" vibrations from "high power" engines.
All completely non qualified as well. What's high power? As high as you can imagine for marketing purposes, but as low as Apple wants it to be for warranty claims.
Apple calls out motorcycles specifically as being the problem. And also some other small engines but specifically calls out engines.
Motorcycles have motors. Motorcycles vibrate A LOT, cyclically, and constantly. It's FAR more of a thing than the mild jostling you'll get on a bicycle. I mean, just think about it.
Also, it's a repairable issue. Happened to me and Apple fixed it quickly (covered by AppleCare+ in my case)
I have a phone mount on my roadbike handlecars - one of the Quadlock ones - does anybody know if the road vibrations from cycling can cause as much damage as the motorbike?
If anything...I would have thought a fairly stiff road bike would have more vibrations than a motorbike?
It's the fact that a motorcycle will vibrate at a specific frequency for tens of minutes or hours at a time while driving.
On a bicycle it's more random and not uniform, unless you drive on a completely uniformly covered gravel road for an hour at a constant speed =)
Usually the result is that the camera tends to look kind of "smudgy" since the actuators can't correctly position the sensor with a broken spring.
Don't run on a road or asphalt path or other hard surfaces. Your knees are NOT built for that, at least not without degradation you will regret in a few decades.
As long as it keeps working no concern, and it works fine, focus is quick. But yeah I won't be mounting it on motorcycle (or mountain bike) anytime soon
Tsk.
- The sun is hot. Your phone wasn't designed to be out in the direct sun for extended periods of time.
- It rains, often unexpectedly. Every rider knows what it feels like to ride in the rain, even a "light" rain: it feels like needles in any exposed skin (time to lower the visor!). That's not great for your phone.
- Sometimes there's hail. No, one doesn't tend to continue riding in such conditions, but it takes time to find cover. Meanwhile the phone is getting pounded.
- There's potholes and other big bumps. A phone mounted to the handlebars bears the brunt of that impact.
Simply put, phones weren't designed for this kind of operating environment. A lot of Garmin GPS units are, especially the ruggedized ones. Save your phone, use the right tool for the right job. Get a Garmin.
1000s of miles with a vibration dampener, and no camera issues!
I do have a ruined battery though. The positioning + wind result in moderately extreme temperatures (very hot in summer and cold in winter), so my phone no longer holds a charge for very long
By some measures, perhaps. Some Harley-Davidson street bikes have factory solid engine mounts with little isolation though.
In terms of imbalance and vibration, IMO, thumpers are the worst, then parallel twins with 0-degree cranks, then other parallel twins. Triples and v-twins are somewhere in the middle. Inline four is decent, inline 6 is even better, boxer is best.
I've seen the rubber isolation points, like these from a CR250R:
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Other bikes have isolators that aren't easy to see at first glance, as it looks like a bolt passing through the frame/engine. You have to remove the bolt to see it's floating on rubber or nylon isolators.
Some treat the engine as a stressed member (part of the frame) and have no motor mounts. Not all.
At least this would be my assumption, I don't know where this problem comes from exactly.
I had a 650 back in the aughts. Such a good bike!
crap getting into otherwise sealed lenses is in some ways more frustrating. the whole device works fine. There's just the ONE speck of dust, which ruins every shot in exactly the same place. I tried taking 2 images with an offset and doing a join, but its harder than it looks. NASA carry this off very well, they have to do a lot of this with gamma ray damage and the like.
Vibration isolation is only going to take you so far. Interesting to wonder how built-in video devices in cars and bikes avoid the risks.
CMOS is what's used in most commercial applications now
I was just shoving a couple notebooks into a file cabinet when I thought how far we've come with vibration/fall resistant SSDs, but I suppose that constant, vigorous motion is still a danger.
If not, there's nothing vibration could break.