Where do you carry your mobile 'phone when riding?

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Where is the best place to carry your mobile phone? I used to carry it in my back pocket until a doctor pointed out I could seriously damage myself - and it - if I was thrown and landed on my hip or bum. A friend used to carry hers on the front of her leg, till it got knocked off in a gateway having worked its way around. There's no point carrying it on the saddle becauase if you come off the horse has the phone! In winter my jacket has a breast inside pocket, and in summer I inelegantly shove it down my bra. Where do you carry yours?
 
I always put it in the pocket in my jods. I dont even notice it there. I have got a pair of Musto jods which dont have a pocket and I stuffed it down my boot but it managed to work its way up and fell out whilst I was riding!
 
In my jods, when I put it in the pocket I think "oooh that's going to annoy me, but it never does".

If the weather is cooler and i'm wearing a fleece it has pockets and it goes in there.

I did try a mobile phone carrier with a clip to clip onto my jods but it banged around too much and that REALLY ANNOYED ME !!! LOL
 
Many thanks. Am just off riding so into the jodhs pocket or underwear it'll go. My mother used to tell me to have clean underwear in case I was knocked down by a bus. Now I'll have to make sure I've got a clean mobile phone as well!
 
I normally put mine in my joddy front pocket - mine all have zip pockets. I also have a little velcro armband thingy that carries my phone but I never use it.
 
I use a small bumbag in summer as have iphone with protective hard cover so not small enough to put in pocket comfortably also carries treats and tissues. In the winter - pockets of coat. Inner ones if available.
 
i tried one of those strap on arm holders and it was hopeless - slipped down my arm all the time, so it got chucked. Now use either a jacket pocket, my jods pocket, or my hi-vis tabard pocket.
 
I keep mine in the top of my boot when I ride but otherwise have it in my zipped jod pocket. I don't ride with it in my pocket as I've heard stories of broken hips when people fall with a phone in their pocket!
 
I have mine in myjacket pocket or my jods pocket, but have heard (or might have been dreaming it lol) that if one falls wrong (as if there is a right way - and if there is, I obviously haven't found it lol), then if in the jods pocket, it could dig into the body causing internal damage.

Hard to know where to put it really.
 
Pocket of my jodhpurs or in the phone pocket of my hi viz jacket for hacking in the winter or in the phone pocket of my hi-viz tabard for hacking in the summer :) Or if i don't have a pocket and am riding in the school i give it to someone watching or leave it in the tackroom or put it in my grooming box
 
i got an phone which won't go in my pocket, so I got a bumbag !!!!! It's ok tho, it's an Eastpak one. It holds sweets and a hoofpick too. I put it round my tummy so if I fall off I always land on my hip or arse and so I won't land on my iphone! I have used it all summer, it's been great.
 
I have a bumbag - it's my 'handbag' (because I don't carry one) so it holds money (great for nipping into the shop and getting a drink while we're hacking), my phone, my keys and a small penknife.
 
Either jodhs pocket or side of my bra, or if it's colder then just in my coat pocket.

I'm surprised how many of us put it in their bra! Makes me jump a mile when it rings/vibrates though!
 
I've got a little mobile pocket on the inside of my gilet. I turn the vibrate off just in case I get a shock at the wrong time! It helps to keep it clean and dry in the case of rain or possibly a tumble as the gilet's waterproof.
 
Bra! Read a few stories about people having serious injuries from falling off on theirs (someone in H&H mag not long ago reptured her spleen I think) and broken pelvises etc. Can't seem to fit my brick-phone in one of those phone holders so bra it is :D
 
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