Poor man's GPS mount

A rainy morning can be very useful, provided that I coudln't go with the bike I decided to build a mount for my GPS ina safe and cheap way. I had seen some home-made mounts but they were too heavy, metal parts, ..., and why not with a plastic bottle?

Step 1: Looking for ingredients

I neded some rigid but not to heavy surface. Some minutes later I came with the ingredients

• 1 Aquarius or Nestea 1L Bottle, the sides are quite rigid and thin.
• 1 Cutter
• 1 Scissors
• 1 Permanent Marker
• 1 Elastic strip (from an old jacket), mine has a locker to adjust it better
• 1 Piece of foam (mine is from isolation foam from the heating system pipes)
• 2 zip ties (got mine from packaging stuff, not in the photo)

Comments

[alieri]

thanks for your instructable. I made my own based on your ideas. You can find it here - http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-poor-man-gps-mount-v-20-for-Garmin-Geko/

[GofishRC007]

use the bottom of the bottle so if it slips down it will stay on.Great idea!

[ildome]

Interesting goog idea! Thanks.

[Sarabeth]

Best one of these homemade bike GPS holders I've seen so far! Thanks for the instructable.

[yzzid]

woah! plain and simple..the essence of Instructibles..hehe Nice one

[chapuzas]

Thank u very much.

[v-dartmaker]

Nice I made one like this Exept i used styrofoam and elastics and a clip to hold the elastice togther at the back and it seams to work well! I can't wait to try it when i go out mountain bikeing. If you want to Build myne email me! at [e-mail]

[biggles]

nice 1

[ehmbee]

Hey, I scored a Garmin Geko like this one for fifty bucks on Ebay...used, but I'm not sure how much cheaper you can get. Nice mod, I might try it.

[chapuzas]

120 is a good price for a new one. so 50 is really good. bye!

[TheCheese9921]

how can you be poor and afford a GPS???

[chapuzas]

Hehe, I'd need 2 rainy years the Poor man's GPS device.

[Liganic]

Nice instructable, can't wait for your next one called "Poor man's GPS device" ;)