Garmin Varia Radar Seat Rail Mount

Pleased with this bracket. I have carbon rails and it states this is for metal seat rails but I was able to fit it and torque it to the recommended 3 nano meters. Caused no damage to the rails. Looks better and my carbon seat post can now be used to hang my bike on the maintenance rack. Easy to adjust. It needs to be level. Pointed straight back. Love my new 820 Varia Radar Light with this bracket. Yes $50 is a lot for this but it's a precision built thing, Garmin is great for cycling. 840 Bike Computer, Power meter pedals RS200. Good stuff. Measure to motivate.

I always hated how the varia mount looked on my seatpost. I have tried all sorts of other cleaner 3D printed options but they never worked well. This one is rock solid and it looks very neat tucked up under my saddle! All the parts are very high quality and I haven’t had even a hint of slippage so far. I see another reviewer who returned this item because (in their defense) the description does say “for alloy rails” in the description. I have had no issues after a hundred or so miles on my carbon rails. Carbon is not as fragile as people make it out to be as long as you work within the limits of its material properties. I put some carbon grit paste on the clamping surfaces and have it torqued to ~4Nm and there is zero slippage. 4Nm is well under what my rails are rated for, my seat clamp is torqued almost twice as much, and those also bear my full body weight. I am not worried about an item as light as a varia clamped to such a low torque spec. Obviously proceed with whatever caution you wish, but I think these are fine for carbon rails!

I wish I'd figured this out sooner. This mount fits perfectly on the headrest supports on my ICE recumbent trike. I did wrap a little electrical tape around the posts to make sure it wouldn't slip, but it's solid as a rock. The mounting screws even come with Loctite Blue already applied. It was a piece of cake to install. No more broken rubber bands and my Garmin Varia tail light tumbling down the road behind me...

Have been using a much cheaper (about $15) rail mount made out of "reinforced nylon." Worked great for about 3 years until it didn't, and the mount broke off and I had to go back and retrieve my Varia from the ground. Road bike, so wouldn't think nearly the maximum stress the part would see. Just got this as a replacement. All metal part. Three times the price, but worth it to me (assumes it holds up as well as I expect it to). Fits my bike well, just able to install it and my saddle bag without any additional parts.

At the moment, Garmin decided we need a lever lock handle to keep the RCT715 mounted. Guess they feel the extra weight under certain circumstances can defeat the quarter turn system. So rather than keep a common solution so you can use older units with the quarter mount solution (RCT515) they expect you to ditch your old equipment or come up with a homegrown solution for either seat mount or seat post mount. Looking at seat rail mount, without a longer extension, this will not fit past most bags. If I was reviewing on this, a 1 star would be in order. But there is a silver lining here. The kit gives you a female quarter turn to go pro style friction mount as well as a lock lever mount to go pro style friction mount. Obviously they feel the go pro style friction mount is strong enough for both units in this chain. So if you, like me, have many bikes with a quarter turn female mount on your seat post, you can buy this kit and buy a separate male quarter turn to go pro mount and simply put the latter into your seat post mount and have a common interface. Good enough for Garmin on their seat rail mount so good enough for seat post mount (may run some extra electrical tape over the rubber stretch piece). Just in case, I put a loop style go pro safety wrist strap behind the lock lever and wrap it around the seat rail (similar to provided in RCT515 in case something goes wrong). No problems so far but no crazy terrain yet either. So if you want to repurpose this it is an over priced but good piece of kit

This is a great little item for safety on regular bikes, ebikes and even on motorcycles (Garmin has one for motorcycles and it has more to it though). My wife bought this for me for my ebike and it works great ! I decided to try on my new Kawasaki KLX230 DF and it also works great on it (you will need bluetooth earphones in order to hear the warnings). However I also have the phone mounted so I can see the warnings also. Great safety device for any two-wheel vehicle !

This mount works great on all my road bikes. Keeps the Varia out of the "wheel" reflection. And it gets the light up higher for better visibility. Mounts securely and properly tightened, does not move.

Solid construction, hold the light firmly and slightly higher so less chance of rubbing the tire. You can still use a saddle bag and a work stand without having to remove the light. Less risk of the rubber bands breaking on the seat post attachment that comes with the light. Is it necessary, not really, but is a nice upgrade if you have the spare change. Also allows you to use racks or bags that don't have a way to attach the light to them.

Amazing! I anticipated solid plastic but this is all metal, perfect to protect the $$$ investment of the radar. Works well with saddle bags there also!

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10x better than the in-box mount that came with my Varia RCT715. It does depend on how you adjust it but my RCT715 now sits 6” further back and around 6” higher up than it was, which are both great bonuses. A word of warning though, the bolts that go through clamps to fasten them to the seat rails are VERY tight. As with all Garmin products, it’s not cheap but it is money well spent.

Muy bueno, ya que si traes bolsa parea herramientas, se puede colocar por arriba de esta

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