Now with added field testing!
OK, so just as I complained that there were no safety pins in the modern world, two arrived the same night, pinning tags to some dry cleaned upholstery. Nice! I used one at the top of the plastic sleeve as discussed yesterday, and it worked just fine. I think a future mod, if this goes forward, would be the use fo a snap or a glued in piece of velcro. The safety pin just takes too long to implement.

It worked as designed. While riding I could look down and see what was playing, and if you a) enabled the screen to stay on indefinitely and 2) allow auto-rotate, it works as you might imagine, swinging the image into view as you bring your arm up. I generally wear fingerless riding gloves (on two fingers anyway) and so obviously as I said yesterday the finger to plastic interface worked fine with the touchscreen. Today I wore heavy winter long finger gloves and with some effort I still made it work with touch, but realistically that’s not convenient. But that is an issue that goes back to any interaction between touch and gloves. Get capacitive gloves, take the gloves off, muscle it, use a sausage, whatever.

I like threading the earbuds up the sleeve. Keeps the cables out of reach. Also, putting the Cutter sleeve on top of arm warmers helped it stay snug.

Success, I bellow to the heavens with an outstretched fist, the iphone displaying Rage AGainst the Machine cover art.

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