An Uncompensated Endorsement

Due to a change in the weather and as a result of this post, I decided to go for a moderate bike ride yesterday (~16 miles with the only hills being at the beginning and the end).

It was the first ride that I was going on since I received the Rocketfish iPhone Bicycle Mount (provided by An Outside Observer) and I was curious to see how the mount would work.

It was nice. I was able to use the speaker function to play music, while using the GPS functions to track my speed and distance (I was listening to Bloc Party and using TrackThing and I was happy with my ride, but not so happy with my level of fitness. Running both the GPS with the music on the speaker did drain the battery quickly (which means that if I do this again, I will have make sure the phone is fully charged) and I was looking forward to the ride up the hill from the river to my house with music or GPS (or a phone for that matter).

While I was still on the bike path, one of my neighbors (yes, one of the people from the Mansion Neighborhood) was down in the Corning Preserve with his two awful Pomeranians and of course he was taking up the entire path...so I hopped off the path to avoid an incident and pedaled on. About 100 meters past them, I decided to get back on the path and thinking that I was fifteen again, I decided to hop the curb.

There are moments when I realize that I am no longer young. I am not quite old, but I am not young. On occasion, the strong pimp hand of fate needs to remind me that I am thirty five years old.

I missed the hop of the curb and went flying ass over ankles. Yes, I caught air. Yes, the bike quickly followed...

But...when I hit the ground hard (my wrist is bruised but not sore) and my bike hit me and the ground hard, the iPhone did not move.

Hence, this product from Rocketfish deserves an endorsement because it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

There it is folks, I have a product, I tested the product, I made myself look foolish in the process and I had a story to tell.