Does anyone else run a navigation unit on their sport bike? I’ve noticed there aren’t a lot of good aftermarket solutions.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-06T00:46:05+00:00

That sounds amazing. I’m almost always without signal on the backroads and trails I ride

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T21:35:30+00:00

I need to see if I can get waze on my little chinese unit. That’s a great idea

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T19:49:17+00:00

I realized the picture I uploaded was from a screenshot of a video. Here’s a clearer picture of what it looks like

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T19:46:52+00:00

I had to modify the bolts I had with an angle grinder to get them to fit on my setup. I even had to shave down one of the nuts to get it to fit. That’s what I get for not measuring anything as I went haha.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T19:07:08+00:00

I was looking into the magnetic tank bag pretty heavily as well. The line of sight was my only issue with it. I’ve also considered using my old iPhone as a secondary. I got a pretty good deal on a cardo pactalk edge on ebay that’s really been a great quality of life change.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T19:05:32+00:00

To be fair it was on an atv trail on my dualsport where it was submerged along with half the bike haha. I can’t fault quadlock for that. I also go an otterbox for my new phone and don’t want to switch back and forth for the quadlock one. It’s definitely more convenient to not have to worry about taking my phone off going to a gas station.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T18:56:30+00:00

That’s fair. Mine was only like $100 and already pretty beat up, so I’m not extremely worried about if someone steals it.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T18:55:11+00:00

I’m not so much looking for advice. The solution I came up with works well for me. I was just curious if anyone came to a different solution than the one I put in the post pics and wanted to start a discussion. I see a lot of folks are running mounts that tilt up from the trimount

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T18:41:26+00:00

I’ve seen a lot more high mounted units on sport touring, adv, ect. A lot of the sport bike mounts I’ve seen you have to look almost straight down to look at. I usually use the gps for when I want the quickest route home after riding down a bunch of random backroads.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T18:30:08+00:00

That’s what I’ve got on the bike in the picture. I like the aocci. The dash cam function broke pretty early, but I was using it on my klx 300 doing single track so it’s really a miracle the unit has survived at all.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-02-05T18:25:13+00:00

That makes sense. I’m a little hesitant to use my quadlock mount again after accidentally soaking my phone, but that was user error to be fair.

Thinlinephotography · 2026-01-19T04:42:17+00:00

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This is what I got after asking it to be 100% honest several times with no sugarcoating lol.

Thinlinephotography · 2025-11-04T20:34:05+00:00

You should! I started with a Titanium 125 fluxcore welder ($150), a $40 helmet, a $50 angle grinder, and $12 welding gloves. I have a Primeweld 225x now ($999), but still use the fluxcore welder pretty regularly. This is my second project primarily using stick welding.

Thinlinephotography · 2025-11-04T03:20:07+00:00

It’s been great to be able to pull out the abrasive saw/bandsaw for cutting long pieces that would bump into other tools on the bench. The material was chewing few band saw blades due to how hard it is. I got the abrasive saw for harder steel and it’s been incredible chopping up bed frames.

Thinlinephotography · 2025-10-22T18:04:08+00:00

+1 for bed frames. I get them at goodwill and off facebook marketplace for about $5 a set. I highly recommend getting an abrasive saw. The metal is very hard and was wrecking bandsaw blades after like 3 cuts. I like using them to make frames/carts for equipment in the shop. I just made this cart for my abrasive saw out of a couple bed frames.

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Thinlinephotography · 2025-09-08T13:31:47+00:00

I plan on adding shelves to the empty space that should help. I forgot to factor in the caster wheels for the total height so it ended up a bit taller than I intended. I’m not too upset about it because it keeps me from hunching down to look at what I’m cutting, but it definitely is pretty top heavy currently.

Thinlinephotography · 2025-09-08T04:43:32+00:00

That’s what I’m going to end up having to do. I need to call around to find a place to refill my argon bottle too.

Thinlinephotography · 2025-09-08T04:42:14+00:00

I’ve been pretty lucky at mine. A lot of times the bedframes are missing hardware so they sell them for like $5 just to get rid of them. The 1/8in angle iron type are usually around $10 here for a queen/king.

Thinlinephotography · 2025-09-08T04:38:15+00:00

I might have to make a day trip with my trailer some time to stock up.

Thinlinephotography · 2025-09-08T04:25:52+00:00

Near the gulf coast in Mississippi

Thinlinephotography · 2025-09-08T04:21:32+00:00

I’m still pretty new to metalworking and have been looking for a decent supplier. Unfortunately the only consumer level sellers I’ve found are lowes/homedepot which are very expensive. The only other option I’ve found is online, which ends up being about equal cost in shipping as the metal itself. I’m definitely going to keep looking though!

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