Garmin 310xt mounting?

I switched to the QR (90-degree twist to lock it into place) about two years ago. Have the band for running, but seperate mounts on my tri bike and road bike that "rubber band" the holder in place.

Road bike is mounted on my stem. For the tri bike, my between the bars bottle set-up takes too much room, so I mounted it on the base bar near the bull-horns. You may need to be creative to fiind a good mounting location, but there are lots of alternatives.

Since making the switch, I've had two significant crashes.....one on each bike. In both cases the 310 stayed in palce with no problems. I would rate the bike mounting as very secure. It takes about 1-second to put the head unit in place or remove it. It's very quick and easy.

Same quarter-turn is used on the watch band. The mount does make the unit stick out a little further on your wrist than the normal band. This feels "different" at first and take a time or two to get used to. I don't notice it at all now.

All in all, I give the QR an A-.

Thanks, I was leaning QR, I don't wear a wet suit so it would be wrist to bike back to wrist.

I've heard good things about the QR system and jealous my TGT doesn't have that option. Take a look at DCrainmakers website, he has a how-to on mounting the watch on your aero bars (it's something I'll look into doing when I get my next bike/watch).

Edited by ChemNerd23 2014-08-26 8:41 PM

QR makes even more sense if you do wear a wet-suit.
You can quickly take it off your wrist mount and hold it in your hand until you get the wet-suit off that arm

Definitely go with the QR.

QR works great. For races I don't wear it during the swim for fear of getting it kicked off and in the water I don't look at it for pace. I leave it on the bike and then remove and use for the run

picked up the QR kit and its solid had a pain getting one of the pins into the band but got it eventually.