Where is your cell phone when you're riding?

[Stig / Major Tom]

I am left handed.
My phone is in the left front pocket of my riding pants.
Stig

[Iahawk]

Left riding jacket pocket

[randyo]

I don't own one

[rjs987]

Depends if I'm just riding around the local area (shopping with a short ride or...) or on a longer trip across the state or several states.

Shorter riding close to home my phone is in the left pocket of my riding pants.

For longer trips across the state or across several states my phone is plugged into the USB charge port in the left glove box... being used as my navigation device through Noodoe.

Although, I am beginning to rethink using Noodoe for navigation since they updated the phone app at the end of Feb 2024 and dropped one feature I used extensively... The Journeys list where I saved all my pre-planned routes. It's gone now. If I don't figure something out about that I might just have to go back to installing the mount on top the dash and mount my phone there to use Google Maps for navigation.

[Neil955i]

Usually right hand jeans pocket with (c)Realrider App* activated.

* https://realrider.com/

[Stig / Major Tom]

Regarding shirt pocket:
Have read EMS comments, "Cellphone can become a weapon to the heart if shattered when a cyclist is hit."

Regarding storing cellphone in or on the scooter:
Member here:
Thrown from his Yamaha Majesty at night, in a single vehicle accident (= no one around to help), had to drag himself back to his scooter where his cellphone was stored.
He lost a leg.

I wonder...in a single vehicle accident, (@25% of motorcycle accidents involve the bike and no other vehicle), no one around....where is that bar-mounted cellphone going to come to rest?
It's one thing to drag yourself back to your bike, but where did your bar-mounted cellphone come to rest?
Can't see anyone destroying a few motorbikes to give these mounts any real-life impact tests.

Neil - thanks for the prompt - I'll look into that.

Stig

[randyo]

Regarding shirt pocket:
Have read EMS comments, "Cellphone can become a weapon to the heart if shattered when a cyclist is hit."

Regarding storing cellphone in or on the scooter:
Member here:
Thrown from his Yamaha Majesty at night, in a single vehicle accident (= no one around to help), had to drag himself back to his scooter where his cellphone was stored.
He lost a leg.

I wonder...in a single vehicle accident, (@25% of motorcycle accidents involve the bike and no other vehicle), no one around....where is that bar-mounted cellphone going to come to rest?
It's one thing to drag yourself back to your bike, but where did your bar-mounted cellphone come to rest?
Can't see anyone destroying a few motorbikes to give these mounts any real-life impact tests.

Neil - thanks for the prompt - I'll look into that.

Stig

I wear my SPOT GPS tracker on a lanyard around my neck, I suppose a freak accident could strangle me, nothing is 100% safe

[rjs987]

RE: cell phone in glove box on bike... I always have my BT head set connected and can make calls from that. It has a fairly good range.

[Neil955i]

Then again, I suppose I did a good few 10s of thousands of miles on motorcycles before mobile phones were even invented!  Are we getting soft in our old age or just sensible?…

[Stig / Major Tom]

Then again, I suppose I did a good few 10s of thousands of miles on motorcycles before mobile phones were even invented!  Are we getting soft in our old age or just sensible?…

Neil, must the phone be left "on" for that system to be tracking me?
Otherwise - how would it know I've now high-sided into a dark pasture with my bovine friends?
(without thumbs - those guys wouldn't be much help)
Stig

[Tromper]

I do keep my phone with me on a Quadlock mount.
It's mounted on a ball mount on the mirror mount on my SYM, & on a ball mount on the driver's side brake fluid reservoir on the Burgman.
I connect it (Wireless) to a SENA 20S, & use it to listen to music/radio when desired, & navigation when needed, as well as for any other communicaton needs.
I have ways to power it hooked up on both bikes; albeit the Burgman's is a bit neater since I'm too lazy to run the cables on the SYM to make it more easily accessible.
The bright blue tab on the right side of the bike is the top of the mount.  Since I took this with said phone it's not mounted of course.

[rjs987]

For those who mount their phone on the bike or put it in the glove box on the bike... I've read of some riders who do that and also keep a cheap flip phone for emergency calling in their pocket. I've considered doing that myself.

[Neil955i]

Neil, must the phone be left "on" for that system to be tracking me?
Otherwise - how would it know I've now high-sided into a dark pasture with my bovine friends?
(without thumbs - those guys wouldn't be much help)
Stig

I believe as long as the App is on the phone you’re running the crash monitoring in the background. I did wonder myself the other day when I noticed that Apple in their wisdom had sucked the App into the cloud 😡. Had to download/restore it again.

[swoter]

Pants or jacket pocket.

[wymple]

Jacket pocket. I want it to go where I go in an emergency.