00:00Lately we've been doing a whole ton of on-bike radar testing and after talking
00:06with some of the brands riding a bunch of radars, we've come up with some kind
00:10of best practices that you should know about when using a bike radar. The very
00:14first thing is know the cone. Every radar is going to have its operational zone of
00:20where it's casting its beam. So the very first thing here is you look like a
00:25Garmin here for example. It's going to be a 40 degree angle and you're also going
00:29to have a cone up and down. So when you know this sort of area don't mount
00:35anything in that in that zone. So avoid having say bags there, a rack there,
00:41fenders. If you have you know a low seat post bike you can mount your radar up
00:49higher to avoid interfering with that zone. Second thing always mount your radar
00:55vertically. Don't mount it horizontally. You put that thing on there horizontally, now
01:00you're going to be messing up the beam pattern. So unless it is a horizontal
01:05radar, mount the thing vertically. Next thing is if you do need to get a little
01:11more space, a little more clearance from your rear wheel, a saddlebag, something
01:14like that, with a Garmin particularly, you can flip that thing upside down. So we know a
01:19lot of you you are using Garmin's. Feel free to flip that upside down. Now last
01:24thing is battery life. Knowing what your battery life is. The published battery
01:29lives, how can I say, they're often optimistic at best. If you know what the
01:36mode you're riding in is and approximately how long that's going to last, you can
01:41sort of use that after a few rides to really ration how often you're gonna have to
01:46charge your device and make sure it's staying running on each and every ride.
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