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Plenty of people (including myself) also experience really bad Bluetooth audio quality with the Riders too ____________________ 1998 ZX9R C1
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I bought an old Garmin car sat nav off ebay for £20 allied with a cheap handlebar mount. Does the job of getting me home when I'm lost. If it rains I'll stick it in a clear bag. 99% of the functionality but with minimal cost.
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I use the TomTom app (GO, I think it's called) on the iPhone, and then Bluetooth the audio to my helmet using the Sena intercom that my wife and I use. The app costs quite a bit (I think it's £20-ish a year?), but a fraction of the cost of a Rider. Last week, we used it to navigate to the centre of Antwerp to a hotel and then (later in the week) around Normandy.
It has a few downsides. The app will very occasionally shut itself off if you just use it in your pocket with the screen off. It doesn't have this problem if I leave it plugged in to the usb charger with the screen on in the top box. In really complicated situations (navigating around the middle of cobble-stoned medieval city, for example), you miss the screen. When we use it in the car, we put it on a phone mount and the screen directions are clear and easy to follow. The voice prompts alone sometimes leave a bit to be desired. But if you go wrong, it'll recalculate quickly and bring you around. ____________________ Current: '14 VFR800X Test passed 31/10/12.
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I have used the phone on the car a few times and google navigation has worked very good so far. Also Lidl is doing a phone holder for £6.99, it is for cars and just the holder but may work in motorcycles. Also a Bluetooth hands free kit for £9.99 Interesting if your phone have voice control functionality. ____________________ A por ellos, que son pocos y cobardes. |
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Moo. wrote: | I have a TomTom400, personally I've never had too many problems with it.. The screens suffers from trapped condensation inside which is a known problem, and sometimes when riding a straight road it rotates to portrait mode for no reason. |
You know you can lock the screen orientation, right? I have mine locked to portrait as I found it would randomly switch round when I needed in the most.
I used a TomTom400 last year round Europe and will be using it again this year. I haven't used a Garmin so can't compare but I found it adequate for my needs. Gets you from A to B via short routes or long routes and tells you where speed cameras/toll roads/petrol stations are along the route. And being able to use it with gloves on is very helpful. Mine has been great in a variety of weather conditions but with glaring sun the screen does get hard to read.
They all do similar things, just get the one that you find the easiest to use. ____________________ Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
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Just dragged myself into all this with a Zumo 345LM. Seems ok so far, even I could figure it out.
I nearly didn't bother with a sat nav at all, price being one thing, but also, reading about them all, all seem to get a hammering for one thing or another. But if mine is anything to go by, they'll all do the job up to a certain standard - enough to be worth consideration it seemed to me, so I went mid-priced and plumped for the 345 as it seemed to get generally good reviews. Having it has certainly improved my confidence for a first solo Euro trip somewhat.
And you can pre-plan your routes on it; I have several loaded up ready for my Spain trip, although it's possible I haven't used the best method to do it, as I'm still figuring it out really. I hear that using Garmin's own software is one method of doing it on a computer, but for now, I've just plugged in a series of map co-ordinates from Google maps as waypoints to plot the routes. I have been told that trying to upload routes from anything other than the Garmin site is a pain.
Also gone for a Scala Rider QZ bluetooth. No problems with volume from the sat nav - it's capable of being set to an absolutely deafening level, although I haven't figured out yet if I can balance the volumes from my phone and the sat nav properly. Not a problem for me if I can't as I was only trying to set up music from my phone anyway, and I'm not bothered about that really. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 334 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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