I was looking for a GPS mount for a motorcycle and the only ‘good’ one I found was about $12 USD shipped, plastic and cheap looking. Being a cheap bastard I decided to spend ~$2 and 15 minutes building a simple mount for a Camera(GPS as soon as I get to the store again).
It’s not pretty, but it works and is much stronger than the massproduced plastic junk I’d wager.
Take a piece of 3/4″ Birch Flooring(Any wood may work, hard wood is less likely to break), and drill hole the size of handle bars in the center of it.
Then drill 3 holes vertical on the flooring, 2(Clamp holes) beside the 1st hole(as close as possible) and 1(GPS/Camera bolt) through the middle of the fist hole.
Counter sink as desired.
Then cut/shape the wood, with 1 cut down the middle through the 1st hole purpindicular to the last 3 holes.
Obviously I didn’t mesure(Except for bolt sizes) or try very hard with the one pictured, maybe next time.
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A friend was browsing kijiji(Like craigslist but Canadians use this; “we” like the slower html and ads I guess?), and came across Honda ACTY ads for sale in Nova Scotia… 1993 Models for $8000. I found on wiki that the new models sell for $8000 USD NEW!, and after e-mailing the seller and researching it a bit. Canadian law doesn’t allow importing of these until they are 15+ years old. I don’t really blame the sellers of these cars as they are just taking advantage of the ignorant(as most business do to some level(Walmart sells many dollar store items for $4-18 each)), but if Canada didn’t have so many laws like this in place at least it would be possible for those smart enough to use google to not get ripped off AND be able to buy a NEW car for about the same cost(driving the used prices down where they should be, $1000).
Incidentally, many of the 15 year old Honda ACTY’s have 35,000-85,000km on them, and have 660cc engines, if the ‘general rule of thumb’ for motorcycle engines applies(I think it would), a 500cc motorcycle engine needs rebuilding(low compression) after about 60,000km, and a 1000cc engine @ 120,000.
So these small vehicles won’t last nearly as long as conventional cars/trucks, and will likely need rebuilding in the near future, wasting!!! even more money.
I was looking for a GPS mount for a motorcycle and the only ‘good’ one I found was about $12 USD shipped, plastic and cheap looking. Being a cheap bastard I decided to spend ~$2 and 15 minutes building a simple mount for a Camera(GPS as soon as I get to the store again). 