Yesterday I was bombing up and down local mountain trails with a good friend of mine. He was riding his hardtail, and I was riding my gravel bike. After we stopped to take a look at some Christmas lights set up on a castle nearby, I put my phone in my top tube bag and completely forgot to close the zipper.
Fast forward thirty minutes, my phone goes flying on a small jump, and I don't realise. During the next stop, my friend asks me to take my phone out to take a selfie, and there I realized: I dropped my phone somewhere.
At first, I thought I had dropped it when I very lightly crashed, but that hypothesis turned out to be false once I watched the footage. I used Google's Find my device to locate the phone and lock it with a message showing my brother's phone number. While we were heading there, my friend got a call: it was my brother saying that someone found the phone and called him.
Turns out it was a good samaritan who was running with her daughter. He brought the phone to their house which was relatively close to where we were riding, so we rode there and he very kindly gave me my phone back. We will be bringing him a small gift next week.
TLDR: ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE YOUR TOP TUBE BAG
Of how I ended up losing my phone while hammering a MTB trail with my gravel bike
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by Ambitious_Guidance20
8 Comments
How to kill your phone. Even without dropping it like this the vibration from the phone onto the frame will destroy at least the lenses immediately.
Phones go in the jersey pocket imo. Getting bounced around against the frame is not good for the camera or internals.
What’s the actual go-to way to take your phone with you on a ride? Backpocket on the jersey? Quadlock? These zipperbags maybe padded with some tissues?
Probably should have that bag zipped up…… but what do I know?!?!?
“Of” in the title should be “on.”
Peak JoJos reference. I love it
#YEET
Great video, and a story with a happy ending.