has anyone had any experience with switching the hard breakable antennas for a different style? are they working on flexible antennas? something that won’t break as easy?
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They are testing flexible high mounts. I don’t know what the status of that is. Perhaps @Yarbo-Forum could provide further details there. There isn’t really a flexible antenna option that I am aware of. There are third party antennas that have thicker plastic. Some automotive grade that seem like they would take a lot of abuse well. Most likely the SMA connector would break before the plastic casing on some of those. I would love to see some different antenna options that could take more abuse offered by Yarbo.
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As Bryan mentioned, we’ve tested the flexible antenna high-mount, and it has proven effective in reducing antenna breakage cases. For the antenna itself, however, we don’t have plans at this time to switch it to a flexible material.
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I would recommend these 3D printable ones. I was manually driving around a board yesterday and hit one pretty hard, but it fully flexed and then went back just fine.
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@kinglerch Where can the 3D printable source be found?
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thanks. how do i download it. 
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Any chance of posting this separately from facebook? Some of us are, never facebook type of people.
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yes please.
You can download here, note that it must be printed in TPU for flexibility
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@kinglerch - thank you
What I can’t get over is a new mower model has come out and there has been no attempt at fixing what I can only describe as a major design flaw.. the m1 has been out for 2 years? antennas have been breaking the whole time…
This is the level of attention that Yarbo thinks is sufficient? 2 years and have no plans to switch materials or any other concrete plans for a remedy for a design flaw?
An example of how this design flexes when I accidentally back into a tree, and then bounces right back.
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Nice design!
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Hey, who put that tree there!?! 
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Could you please share again the link to the latest file as file by link is not available anymore? I am fine to pay for 3d file if this is the case. Thanks.
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Gravity….
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Here it is again. That tree has been “falling” for 20 years now. A skunk has taken to hanging out there, so I let Yarbo do the dirty work. I don’t always take the turns right, so having a flexible (yet not so tall) antenna mount works very well.
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I had one of those. Was still alive but leaning on other trees for like 10 years. Even survived a derecho. Finally just up and died one day and then a few years later rotted enough to start falling down completely.
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