New LC RT?

[Bluesticky1]

The GT is just what the video producers have stuck on the vid as far as I can tell - all the dealers are calling the LC RT.

The sat nav looks like it may be an internalised mount for the Navigator 4 - I bet there's a wheel on the grip to operate like on the new LC GS (which I'm test riding next week - report will follow).

Can't compare an RT to a GS as never ridden a GS, but I will say the RT is the most comfortable bike I've ever ridden over long distance (there have been a fair few), and the weather protection is second to none.

 

[Mav]

The GT is just what the video producers have stuck on the vid as far as I can tell - all the dealers are calling the LC RT.
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However I would say the bikes in the vid are distinctly different to the bike in the Wunderlich shots...

 

[Fanum]

Either the seat height is a bit lofty or the test rider on the right is 'vertically challenged'

 

[Bluesticky1]

Just test ridden the new GS - that is one heck of an engine - the RT version should be really quite amazing!

 

[Bluesticky1]

However I would say the bikes in the vid are distinctly different to the bike in the Wunderlich shots...

Surely Wunderlich would have had a fair amount of guesstimation in there mock up? Gonna be a peach either way!

 

[zoltan]

I didn't miss that, and If BMW want to call it a GT I'm not that bothered. I'm just not that convinced BMW would drop RT for GT, especially as I didn't notice it say GT on the bike, did anyone?

The dash looks like is from 1600GT

 

[Deleted account Cooperman]

Navigator V sat nav

 

[zoltan]

Navigator V sat nav

Nő is probably an iPad , so some cock can make a revcounter App . Details in the WC sector .

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

Navigator V sat nav

Fecking hope not. Sh1tty, sh1tty Garmins.

About time BMW saw the light a did a tie up with Tom Tom.

 

[Bluesticky1]

If its the same dash as the K16, which is what it looks like, surely it's a Nav4 in the slot thing(as on the K16).

 

[Nutty]

Fecking hope not. Sh1tty, sh1tty Garmins.

About time BMW saw the light a did a tie up with Tom Tom.

I dream of that day

 

[ebbo]

I’ll bite, what’s the attraction of TomTom Rider over a Garmin Zumo or Montana

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

For me the Garmin is over complicated and takes the most ridiculous routes.
To do my European trip this year I've had to plan the routes myself on the laptop, find the hotels on the laptop, then load everything into my Navi III.
Now, pardon me, but isn't the point of a Sat Nav that it should do all that for me?

I also had a very, very poor experience last year when updating the maps.

Never had any such issues with my Tom Tom.


*****As an aside you weren't at Seaways last Sunday were you Ebbo?

 

[Mr Bean]

I had a TomTom Rider 1 and it suffered from the well documented problem of refusing to charge in the cradle.

Even though it was less than two years old they refused to supply a new cradle as I didn't have a receipt - it was a present. The serial number was less than two years old they wouldn't replace it as - wait for it, I may have stolen it!

They wouldn't accept an email from the supplier as proof. Because it was over a year old the original supplier wanted £25.00 to dig out the original receipt and copy.

The problem is well known and they are a shower of shit who should have apologised and sent the replacement rather than act like pseudo police and cause further hassle.

I now have a Garmin 660 and very happy with it.

 

[Deleted account Cooperman]

Nő is probably an iPad

Look closely

 

[ebbo]

For me the Garmin is over complicated and takes the most ridiculous routes.
To do my European trip this year I've had to plan the routes myself on the laptop, find the hotels on the laptop, then load everything into my Navi III.
Now, pardon me, but isn't the point of a Sat Nav that it should do all that for me?

I also had a very, very poor experience last year when updating the maps.

Never had any such issues with my Tom Tom.


*****As an aside you weren't at Seaways last Sunday were you Ebbo?

I was! late afternoon, but they were closing. You should have said hello, I'll talk to anyone

Back to Tomtom v Garmin, I have a Tomtom for the car, it works fine and the display while routing is better than any of the Garmins I've owned, but, in every other way the Garmin beats it with the likes of PC mapping in Mapsource and Basecamp, waypoints, routes, tracklogs and with the Montana, home made custom maps, total configurability and even temperature monitoring via remote sensor! (Tempe).

Yup, I do know about Tyre for Tomtom routing...

 

[sven]

I was! late afternoon, but they were closing. You should have said hello, I'll talk to anyone

Back to Tomtom v Garmin, I have a Tomtom for the car, it works fine and the display while routing is better than any of the Garmins I've owned, but, in every other way the Garmin beats it with the likes of PC mapping in Mapsource and Basecamp, waypoints, routes, tracklogs and with the Montana, home made custom maps, total configurability and even temperature monitoring via remote sensor! (Tempe).

Yup, I do know about Tyre for Tomtom routing...

If I want to go from point A to point B, my Tomtom Urban Rider takes me on a logical route. My Garmin, on the other hand, takes me on some very strange routes - what's the point in all the features you mention above when it can't perform the basic function of being a sat nav system?

Point A to point B using shortist route or winding roads routing also works really well and takes me down some really interesting roads.

When I want to go from point A to Point B via points C,D,E,F etc., I just use Autoroute + ITNconverter and it's much easier than that crappy Mapsource programme

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

So we're agreed. They're both crap.

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

I was! late afternoon, but they were closing. You should have said hello, I'll talk to anyone

Just caught sight of you as you pootled through the car park. I gave you a winning smile but you ignored me. Can't say I blame you though.

 

[ebbo]

Just caught sight of you as you pootled through the car park. I gave you a winning smile but you ignored me. Can't say I blame you though.

Sorry, I was probably trying to look cool