Why buy a bike specific sat nav?

I was watching a Quest 1 today that hadn't moved from 99p with no reserve, but complete with Ram brackets and chargers etc.

It went for 31 quid, and my max was at 30 or so......still a stonking bargain though, as long as you're not after the all singing all dancing posey models for ace cafe kudos :D

(you could have got the cost of the whole shebang back by splitting it and re-selling it)

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There are dozens of various models of Nuvi on Ebay as well, for between 15 and 50 quid for a basic to an all BT enabled one......sure, not 100% waterproof but seriously, that's either really easily dealt with or not a problem in the first place.

Yah I know, I'm a cheap bastard :blast :rolleyes:

Quests come up every couple of days and it's definitely worth following IMO.....you CAN get mapping that's nearly up to date (a year out at most for Europe at the moment) and the parts that fail (batteries and ariel) are also dead cheap to replace.

Horses for courses, and yes, as always, it's down to the person who wants to piss their money up the wall :augie
 
I was watching a Quest 1 today that hadn't moved from 99p with no reserve, but complete with Ram brackets and chargers etc.

It went for 31 quid, and my max was at 30 or so......still a stonking bargain though, as long as you're not after the all singing all dancing posey models for ace cafe kudos :D

(you could have got the cost of the whole shebang back by splitting it and re-selling it)

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There are dozens of various models of Nuvi on Ebay as well, for between 15 and 50 quid for a basic to an all BT enabled one......sure, not 100% waterproof but seriously, that's either really easily dealt with or not a problem in the first place.

Yah I know, I'm a cheap bastard :blast :rolleyes:

Quests come up every couple of days and it's definitely worth following IMO.....you CAN get mapping that's nearly up to date (a year out at most for Europe at the moment) and the parts that fail (batteries and ariel) are also dead cheap to replace.

Horses for courses, and yes, as always, it's down to the person who wants to piss their money up the wall :augie

If they're so good why are there so many going so cheaply? Do the owners just stop travelling or buy a map, or buy another (better?) GPS?
 
Sadly not as the Quest is limited to non NT Garmin mapping. However up to date and free OpenStreetMapping works very well indeed and is easily loaded via Mapsource

Not enough memory on quest & no option of cf card. Better to get a Garmin 2610 off ebay or similar with 2 gb cf card which is needed for Openstreetmaps.
 
If they're so good why are there so many going so cheaply? Do the owners just stop travelling or buy a map, or buy another (better?) GPS?

depends what you want your gps to do if its getting from a to b then its fine I have an ipod or phone for music
 
Not enough memory on quest & no option of cf card. Better to get a Garmin 2610 off ebay or similar with 2 gb cf card which is needed for Openstreetmaps.

Plenty of memory if you use it correctly :thumb2

I regularly used to use mine for crossing France and Spain, then off and on road around Morocco and back home.

Bit like panniers really...you get bigger ones, you'll still fill them and want more space even if more than half what you have packed is irrelevant :)
 
Plenty of memory if you use it correctly :thumb2

I regularly used to use mine for crossing France and Spain, then off and on road around Morocco and back home.

Bit like panniers really...you get bigger ones, you'll still fill them and want more space even if more than half what you have packed is irrelevant :)

Do you still use it?
 
I've used my Tomtom 510 on my bike for the best part of the last 8 years it's a basic car unit with euro maps. It's been saturated in Belgium, France and Spain bounced of the deck a few times and has never ever failed me. The speaker is loud enough to hear at about 80mph on the bike so no need to use blue tooth of have silly speakers in your ears. If i go offroading on the gasser i have a Garmin 60csx whch i use for orienteering which i load routes on from memory map.

If my Tomtom goes tits up i'll buy another unit very similar to it either a Tomtom or Garmin. CAn't see the point in Zumo's or Rider's they are only glorified Nuvi's and tomtom's the software is the same but they are double the price as they have bigger screen buttons and are supposed to be a bit more waterproof
 
Do you still use it?

Yep.

In fact, putting my money where my mouth is, I bought another one from Ebay last week......it should be here by mid week :)

This lot for 40 quid delivered.....the cradle, chargers and ram mount kit is worth that alone :blast


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I have used a Nuvi 250 which was £80 new.
Never felt the need to hear directions as you always need to double check by looking at the screen anyway in town if you have two junctions near each other or a complicated junction. The worst thing that can happen is that you take a wrong turn but you then get corrected anyway. Bike specific ones are a rip-off.
 
Yep.

In fact, putting my money where my mouth is, I bought another one from Ebay last week......it should be here by mid week :)

This lot for 40 quid delivered.....the cradle, chargers and ram mount kit is worth that alone :blast


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no real loss if it gets nicked broken or wet:thumb
 
Yes you do have to have a bike specific GPS.

It has to have MP3, bluetooth, it has to play video and it has to have as many other farkles on it as possible.

It has to be one that has already had a lockable, expensive billet aluminium GPS mount for it in the Touratech catalogue.

You won't EVER need any of these things, above the basic routing from A to B of course.

BUT....if you don't have all of the above, you will be looked down on by all the wankers here who sadly, have to self-justify their own purchase of a similar unit.



A lot of them (not all, being fair) are the ones who have plastered their expensive Tesco panniers in stickers that they have ordered from EBay, have the most expensive jackets and trousers and a peaked MX style helmet.

The only place they need these things is IN THEIR HEADS.......most of them barely get out of Britain, let alone Europe.

These people are really easy to spot....if you look at their bikes, they usually have things like extended mudguards (carbon fibre of course) but also have knobbly tyres (WTF :nenau) or other pairs of items that utterly contradict eachother.

Nearly all of it is utter bullshit....they just like expensive farkles (hey, and why not, man toys are good :thumb2) and will try and convince you to get the same, so they are happier with their choices and can pretend that they are in some adventurer's club rather than just having rather smaller reproductive organs than normal.


If it makes you happy and you want to, go out and buy one of these uberGPSs........but no, you do not need one, and a 15 quid second or third hand Nuvo from Ebay will do a bloody good job......you can stick it in a 5p ziplock bag if you can't position it out of the rain, but IME you don't have to.

Aluminium mounts? bollox.....two bits of velcro pad, 30p (it's a quid a metre in a haberdashery)

Power on the bike......1.49 free shipping from Ebay, plus a quid for an in-line fuse.

You can spot the most insecure wankers by the way...they'll be the ones who most vociferously try and defend their buying of the uberGPS....just watch, some will be along here soon :augie

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Total cost <20 quid.....has lasted 2 years so far, 2 winters (all year around riding) and rain, snow, sleet, fog, heat and bird shit.

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Great post.

Based on this, just bought a Nuvi (with European) for £21 (£2.80p&p) in A1 condition.
Some ram mounts to fit onto 1" ball £28 delivered and a new charger £2.80.

So just over £50 and if it goes bang £20.

I had a bike specific peaklife satnav (£100) that got the charging issue after a few uses so didn't want to keep spending too much on bike specific sat navs as I just go from A - B :)
 
So what is the latest on this issue, what cheap as chips perfectly functional bike specific sat nav would one buy today in 2017. I'd be looking for a bright screen as unlikely to bother with bluetooth. Unlikely to fiddle with the buttons on the move so little or no buttons suits me. Use an old TomTom in the car and that works just fine for me.
 


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