Does anyone use GPS on road trips?? I'm think about getting a unit. I noticed some company's sell "handle bar mounts" for motorcycles. Anyone have any experience??
Never used it on a bike. I have a handheld that I take along road trips. The Garmin eTrex has handlebar mounts and I've heard they're not bad.
ASLAM.
I've just purchased a Garmin Street Pilot 2610 to use on my GS500. I will not be mounting it on the handle bars as these are not in the normal field of view, and would require tilting my head down to read. I will be mounting it atop the instrumentation panel with a custom made mount using the cradle availble from Ram Rod, and may be a few other bits and pieces - check out www.rammount.com for more info on available mounts.
Regards,
Gergatron
they take away some of the excitement because you know you will never get lost....i like taking back roads just to see where they go....a gps kinda spoils the suprise
Quote from: johncam4gps kinda spoils the suprise
dunno... How current is the database? I find this the mayor problem with mapwork. I once was stranded in a town in front of a gym hall where my map clearly showed a road going through.
I use my GPS to find jeep, log, & fire roads to take my DRZ on. I use the software that came with it to print out street maps if I plan a road ride into unfamiliar territory. :cheers:
I use it on trip alot. I put my Meridian in the plastic tankbag pocket, and atach it to the 12 volt outlet (I'm very proud of it... did it myself...well sort of...ok my electrical engeneering buddy helped...ok he instaled it for me while I watched, but that's not the poin... :mrgreen: ) It works great, but sometimes I need to take it out of the plastic pocket to see the details.
Cheers
-Denis S.
My brother and I just bought a Sony PDA with TomTom GPS hardware and software. We also bought a 128MB memory stick to upload maps.
It supports turn-by-turn navigation, voice instructions etc... Unfortunately, the provided maps only cover Germany, Austria and Switzerland (in various maps). And some of the maps are so large that we have to get a larger memory stick (512MB or 1GB)...
The TomTom for Palm software isn't ideal - for example, you cannot exclude highways from your route (you have to edit the route manually and remove all highways).
And you cannot set your route using multiple "via's".
And a PC version would be great (planning a route on a 17" or 19" display with 1600x1200 resolution would be much easier), with options to export the route to the PDA and combining all the maps into one map with only the required data would be good too!
D.
Lots of GPS stuff at Aerostich, including actual GPS units and lots of bracket/mounting/accessory options. www.aerostich.com