All the later generation Garmin devices have an option for setting a "Transportation Mode" . There is a small icon on the top left of the screen, press and hold it and you get 3 options "car", "motorcycle" and "off road". Although there is mention of how to change it in user manuals (I have these for my 390, for the 590 and Nav V) there is no mention I can find of how these are set up in the first place. For the past couple of days I have been trying to see if there is any difference when using this "motorcycle" transportation setting.
Yesterday a short pre planned route worked although it did take me down a couple of single track roads which may have been slightly more direct but were slow going (settings are faster time, avoid motorways and unmade roads). Using the home function the return route worked OK at first but then tried to take me off the local by pass, into the town and out again. Since the town is to the west of the bypass and I live to the east this made no sense at all.
Today did not go well A downloaded route (made using Mapsource) transferred perfectly and appeared to work correctly. However as soon as I went off route (very short distance for fuel) it recalculated in the most bizarre way, adding nearly two hours to a one hour ride and trying to take me off in the wrong direction for miles. The only way I could get it to plot a sensible route was stop the planned route and ask to go directly to my destination. On leaving to come back home I pressed "Home" and it started to calculate, stopping at 80%. I set off (I knew where I was but wanted to test the device) and rode for 20 mins-the screen still showed 80%. I stopped and re tried it several times with the same result. I then re set he transportation road to "car" and the device worked perfectly.
So has anyone any idea how these settings are arrived at? Can they be changed or am I stuck with tis useless setting? I had though it might be through Basecamp possibly connected to Basecamp's Activity profiles but my Basecamp had had the driving and motorcycling profiles matched since before I got the 390. Anyone any ideas?
Obviously I can just carry on using the "car" transportation mode which works as I require but since there is the option it would be good to know how to set up an alternative (one that actually works that is!)
If my device's "Motorcycle" settings are replicated on others it might explain some of the problems people are reporting
John
Yesterday a short pre planned route worked although it did take me down a couple of single track roads which may have been slightly more direct but were slow going (settings are faster time, avoid motorways and unmade roads). Using the home function the return route worked OK at first but then tried to take me off the local by pass, into the town and out again. Since the town is to the west of the bypass and I live to the east this made no sense at all.
Today did not go well A downloaded route (made using Mapsource) transferred perfectly and appeared to work correctly. However as soon as I went off route (very short distance for fuel) it recalculated in the most bizarre way, adding nearly two hours to a one hour ride and trying to take me off in the wrong direction for miles. The only way I could get it to plot a sensible route was stop the planned route and ask to go directly to my destination. On leaving to come back home I pressed "Home" and it started to calculate, stopping at 80%. I set off (I knew where I was but wanted to test the device) and rode for 20 mins-the screen still showed 80%. I stopped and re tried it several times with the same result. I then re set he transportation road to "car" and the device worked perfectly.
So has anyone any idea how these settings are arrived at? Can they be changed or am I stuck with tis useless setting? I had though it might be through Basecamp possibly connected to Basecamp's Activity profiles but my Basecamp had had the driving and motorcycling profiles matched since before I got the 390. Anyone any ideas?
Obviously I can just carry on using the "car" transportation mode which works as I require but since there is the option it would be good to know how to set up an alternative (one that actually works that is!)
If my device's "Motorcycle" settings are replicated on others it might explain some of the problems people are reporting
John