You don’t have to spend much time on a motorcycle to appreciate the advantages of a quality phone mount. As much as you might savor escaping from the trappings your everyday existence, it’s just super handy to have your device’s navigation, music and communication capabilities in easy sight and reach.
At the same time, one of the biggest hangups is keeping that phone alive, especially with GPS draining its life force like some sort of digital Baron Harkonnen. Yes, you can charge it via a cable, and modern bikes offer ports for doing so, but it’s always a bit clunky — and not always reliable. Until now.
Once the unit is properly installed on your bike, charging your phone will be as simple as dropping it onto the mount, no messy cables required.
Because one of our favorite brands, Peak Design, is rolling out the world’s first Qi2 wireless charging moto mounts — through its tried-and-true fundraising channel, Kickstarter — and they sure look like game changers.
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A track record of mobile mounting excellence
After all, the folks at Peak Design really don’t introduce new products unless they are certain they’ve nailed the execution. When the brand best known for camera bags, straps, clips and tripods launched its Mobile ecosystem in 2020, the Everyday Case and its family of accessories proved to be damn near perfect, even claiming a spot in our own GP100 with the fantastic Out Front Bike Mount.
(What won us over is how smoothly everything works. Thanks to Neodymium magnets, you simply set the cased phone onto the mount to secure it, then tap one of the subtle buttons on the underside to release it. The system is so robust, you can lift up your whole bike with the phone.)
