M3+ + bike mount + loop carabiner + spine mount adapter

Volker 1 month ago

I bought the new, necessary bike mount (€ 17,99 including shipping costs), and the new spine mount adapter (€ 22,99 including shipping costs). I don't know if I'll use the M3+ mounted on my handlebars very often, but I was curious to see what it looks like. The spine adapter attaches to the M3+ with a screw, and you can then attach the loop carabiner to it if needed. The spine mount adapter itself weighs 12 grams, and the loop carabiner weighs 14,5 grams, the M3+ weights 126 gramms, so the total weight of the three components is 152,5 grams. I think I'm too lazy to unscrew the adapter and it will stay permanently at the device.Here are a few pictures:

A nice little detail on the bike mount: when you slide the device onto the bike mount, the movable part marked 1 locks and secures the device. To remove it, you have to press the lever (marked 2).

0 alegarto 23 days ago

Hi Volker, thank you for the pictures, everything is a bit more clear to me now. However, the spine mounter in Italy is sold with the (translated) description "belt clip adaptor". By the pictures you posted it doesn't seems to have the belt clip. Could you please confirm there is no clip? Thank you

0 Volker 23 days ago in reply to alegarto

Belt clip. No. As far as I know, hasn’t Garmin released a belt clip for the new mount system yet. I fear, people have to wait until a third party company is releasing stuff for the new mount system (tusita for example), but I haven’t seen third party stuff for it yet.

0 BeneGi 21 days ago

It looks like a belt connector is printed pretty easily.
I would prefer to use it without the spine mount. The spine mount seems to be adding more weight then necessary if you don't want to switch mounting options that often.