Car navigation(PND) on your bike

[kawashima]

I had my bike shop attach my car navigation(portable one) on my bike today.
My bike navigation became really old, so I decided to use my PND on both car and bike.
It was a little bit tough for me to find bike stay for my PND but I could find them.
They were combination of Herbert richter mount system and Japanese attachment.
PND is Panasonic Gorilla GP510VD.
It had cigar socket electic option only so I attached cigar socket under the seat.
Now the screen is larger, the map is the newest and navigation is really reliable.
It's not waterproof so I bought the smallest Ziplock bag, it fit well.
I will put the ziplock bag in the pocket of riding jacket.
I'm really happy now.

It costed me 20000yen (£140) total(stay, code, fee) but I'm pleased with it.

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Does anyone use car navigation on your bikes?
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[Doovy]

Nice. Big screen!

I do similar with a Tomtom in the same place on handlebars, securing the mount with cable ties.

Other than that, my iPhone with Maps/Google Maps/Tomtom running through earphones also works fine as voice instructions are usually clear enough!
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[bridgedino]

Great idea, how does the zip bag do when traveling? Does the wind catch it?

[keggyhander]

Don't need the bag.

Rain would need to be coming down like stair-rods to affect it.

[weasley]

I agree - I use my car TomTom on my bike (lashed on with double-sided Velcro) and it has survived some foul weather unprotected (well, protected only by the screen and some forward speed).
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[kawashima]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

It's very rare when I need to use a sat-nav (PND), and when I do it's in a jacket pocket or tankbag via headphones.

I find them annoying and the screen distracts me. I prefer to write the route down on paper and memorise most of it. Google street view is handy for imprinting the image of tricky junctions, so often my written list will have things like 'Left onto the B4505 at The Swan pub..... Follow signs to Bovingdon....' etc.

Travelled 130 miles to the 2012 BCF BBQ with a piece of paper smaller than a postcard and used the sat-nav for music on the motorways.
Handy to have a back-up should there be road closures.
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[kawashima]

[lukamon]

Android smartphones FTW. music only occasionally interrupted by sat nav voice
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[Tungtvann]

Good price too! I looked up bike sat navs and they were very expensive, the sort of price that car ones were when they first came out.

[Doovy]

[kawashima]

[anthony_r6]

The bike-specific sat navs are a ridiculous amount of money for what they are. I have a Garmin car satnav and I use it in a waterproof case. I say use I haven't actually used it yet.
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[Snorty]

BlackBerry with GPS, headphones in pocket. Sorted.
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[Shinigami]

I've a cheap car nav. Was about 30 quid. Swapped the software on it for igo primo. Does the job well enough. Mounted with a waterproof case mount cheap from ebay. Eould work well with my phone in it too
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[calyx]

A nexus 7 and a 10 quid bike mount should cost almost the same amount.
No offence but £140 is proper rip off.
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[Moo.]

I bought a cheap givi car sat nav off ebay for a tenner, mount it in a hein gericke streeline gps bag

https://www.hein-gericke.co.uk/streetline-gps-tasche.html

Bought when they have one of their may sales on for a tenner too, it mounts around the handle bars with a few velcro straps, but has multiple attachments for other things like buttons and more velcro I dont think its claimed to be waterproof, but does a good job of it! Mounts it nicely where its visible too


Btw, anyone tried that free sat nav software stuff.. Openstreetmap i think its called. You can load it upto givi sat navs and is basically like a wikipedia map where people update it themselves. Wondered if it was worth a go
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I did play with my sat-nav when I first got it. Image shows Time. Altitude and average speed. 56mph one way and 53 mph the other. It's downhill so the CB250RS had a better run back into town.

I can't remember the name of the software but remember it was a faff installing it.
Using the gps speedo was useful. Now I can go through speed cameras at 35mph.

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[thx1138]

that's a nice big screen

yeah, I just lash up cheapo car sat navs to my bike, I just run of the battery, generally I can get to most cities and big towns without checking a map (well, I look before I set off of course), but I need the sat nav for the last couple of miles

bike sat navs too pricey

[magpiemale]

When I use a GPS I have a Garmin nuvi 760T mostly I use my android phone for Bluetooth to my helmet for music.
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