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    MTB Riders: how do you secur your watch from falling?

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    • OktanO Offline
      Oktan
      last edited by Oktan

      Hi all,
      Does anyone found a nice idea to secur your watch from falling of the handlebar while riding,
      in case the strap diattached?

      Suunto 9 Baro Titanium & Ambit 3 Peak

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      • surfboomerangS Offline
        surfboomerang @Oktan
        last edited by

        @oktan I use a small wrist lanyard during windsurfing to secure the watch. Loop the end through one of the holes in the strap. Maybe you can use it for moubtainbiking too.

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        • ? Offline
          A Former User @Oktan
          last edited by

          @oktan I always used something like this and the had watch never fell of. Maybe because my aliexpress strap is more “rigid” and it is well fixed.
          https://www.decathlon.pt/suporte-relogio-bicicleta-id_8487015.html

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          • freeheelerF Offline
            freeheeler @Oktan
            last edited by

            @oktan
            I am not very scared of loosing my watch… …never used it in the atlantic as I don’t think my surfing skills are worth tracking 😂
            But I use it for MTB at the wrist and always on top, for Ski Touring sometimes on top, depends on the weather and temperature… sometimes it’s hidden in the gloves gaiter/sleeve.
            For MTB, I recently did my short lunch trails and managed to catch the same branch of a tree 4 times with the watch. When I came home I still had bark that shaved off the branch sticking to all 3 buttons…
            Compared to the A3PS strap attachment I was a bit unsure if S9B is robust enough… but 1.5 years with me proof that it is quite robust 😀

            living sideways

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            • OktanO Offline
              Oktan @Guest
              last edited by Oktan

              @andré-faria Hi, I use similar of Suunto (see below). But, if one of the 2 of the watch connections to the strape (dont know how its called) will break/get loose - the watch will fall. This is what i want to secur.

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              Suunto 9 Baro Titanium & Ambit 3 Peak

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              • Mff73M Offline
                Mff73 @Oktan
                last edited by

                @oktan
                😂
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                • freeheelerF Offline
                  freeheeler @Mff73
                  last edited by

                  @mff73
                  place them where A3PS had the bezel screws 😉

                  living sideways

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                  • herlasH Offline
                    herlas Silver Members @Oktan
                    last edited by

                    @oktan so far using Suunto bike mount and my S9B default strap has worked fine on the mtb rides, it’s the only situation where I use that strap at all 🙂

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                    • OktanO Offline
                      Oktan @Mff73
                      last edited by

                      @mff73 😀

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                      • EfejotaE Offline
                        Efejota Bronze Member @Oktan
                        last edited by

                        @oktan I used the Decathlon handle bar holder. I have bought an Amazon strap which seems a bit more rigid than Suunto and use it for the bike. I was not particularly concerned abut this issue (until now). Maybe a small lanyard passed through some of the holes. I will decrease the possibility of losing the watch in a 50% or, if passed by both sides, 100%. But it will also increase the inherent complications for starting an activity.

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                        • freeheelerF Offline
                          freeheeler @Efejota
                          last edited by

                          @efejota
                          100% is a lot

                          living sideways

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                          • EfejotaE Offline
                            Efejota Bronze Member @freeheeler
                            last edited by

                            @freeheeler 😁

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