In May I spent two and a half weeks on the road, travelling south from Glasgow to North Wales, central Wales, south Wales, dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Essex, Derbyshire, Northumberland and then back to Glasgow. I did just around 3000 miles and it was a good trip.
Anyway, on this trip I was using an android phone (used them for years and love them) but I kept having snags with the Bluetooth on my HJC headset and also getting online so when I got back I succumbed to populist endeavours and bought an iPhone. My first one in over 8 years.
:-(
And then last week I did a week away, travelling down to Derbyshire again, North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. The phone was great except that a few days before I got back the camera was going really weird and in the end I had to use my proper camera to take pictures.
What’s this got to do with bikes I can hear you asking. Read on…
Anyway, when I got back I took the phone back to the shop, did a little Apache song and dance and he replaced my phone with a new one. But what I didn’t realise when I left BUT what I did find out when the camera went tits-up and I did some Googling - it seems that iPhones are quite sensitive to vibration. It seems the camera is supported in a rubber housing - a bit like the rubber sheath on a CV carb - and lots of vibration can knacker the mounting around the lens.
I didn’t mention this to the bloke in the shop, or the fact that it had just done about a thousand miles sat on the handlebar of a Vstrom (as I don’t think he would have appreciated it) but I am buying a rubber dampener for my quadlock…
Strangely enough though, the camera on my my Chinese Android is fine. Must be a moral to that story somewhere there…
