Backmarker
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Chisurz said:
You dont mention money, so I am assuming money is no object, then from your list I would say a Garmin 2720 would best meet your needs.
You dont mention money, so I am assuming money is no object, then from your list I would say a Garmin 2720 would best meet your needs.
Steveremf
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Blimey I,m even more undecided than before.
To sum up so far Tom Tom Rider
Can,t plan routes on PC
Sound level not great in helmet - isn,t it possible to get a blue tooth ear piece
Possibly doesn,t come with European Map - anyone know if this true
Apart from these points Tom Tom seems a better buy.
Most of my meetings will be a case of punching a post code or place in the unit,
I hope to be clod hopping round Europe in the summer with no itinery meaning I don,t need PC plotting capabilities. The Tom Tom is made for bikes so I reckon a lot of gripes you would have using a car designed unit on a bike should have been ironed out.
These units are not cheap so I will gladly take on board more comments.
To sum up so far Tom Tom Rider
Can,t plan routes on PC
Sound level not great in helmet - isn,t it possible to get a blue tooth ear piece
Possibly doesn,t come with European Map - anyone know if this true
Apart from these points Tom Tom seems a better buy.
Most of my meetings will be a case of punching a post code or place in the unit,
I hope to be clod hopping round Europe in the summer with no itinery meaning I don,t need PC plotting capabilities. The Tom Tom is made for bikes so I reckon a lot of gripes you would have using a car designed unit on a bike should have been ironed out.
These units are not cheap so I will gladly take on board more comments.
Pondboy
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Steveremf,
And the unit locks its controls when its on the bike so you can't change your A-B route without removing it from the cradle.
PB
And the unit locks its controls when its on the bike so you can't change your A-B route without removing it from the cradle.
PB
HMR
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Ha, ha, ha, ha..... Great joke!Pondboy said:
Or is it a joke? What would be the purpose with a navigator that you cant use while driving.
Ho do you zoom/in out? How do you order it to repeat an instruction? How do you switch between the different displays (map/guiding/roadbook/info/compass/etc) ?
Are you supposed to stop in the middle of the motorway????? - No way, you are obviously joking.
Pondboy
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HMR,
Safety feature.
PB
Safety feature.
PBSteveremf
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I thought one of the bike related features was a large button touch screen for gloves.
I suppose basic commands must be available (as HMR stated) when you are riding whilst the main route etc that you have programmed in remains locked to stop you spending more time fiddling with your GPS than you do looking at the road.
Or perhaps I know nothing
I suppose basic commands must be available (as HMR stated) when you are riding whilst the main route etc that you have programmed in remains locked to stop you spending more time fiddling with your GPS than you do looking at the road.
Or perhaps I know nothing
Pondboy
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Steveremf
Actually I think you are right. I know they lock the route and I think they might lock other features like switching screen, but I'm not sure on the latter.
PB
Actually I think you are right. I know they lock the route and I think they might lock other features like switching screen, but I'm not sure on the latter.
PBHMR
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Garmin leave it to you to decide what you can, or not can, do while driving. So does all of the built-in car navigators I have tried. TomTom must be very different.Steveremf said:
Or maybe this is a special UK feature?
"the UK bikers are so stupid so they don't know what's best for them" I have met serveral bikers from the-kingdom-of-the-western-islands and they all seemed to be quite normal?
it can be done
you can over ride the idiot mode by putting a piece of insulating tape over one of the contacts on the back of the unit. This will allow you to fiddle, while on the move, otherwise you cant, and the unit goes to a more basic menu. nick
Steveremf said:I thought one of the bike related features was a large button touch screen for gloves.
I suppose basic commands must be available (as HMR stated) when you are riding whilst the main route etc that you have programmed in remains locked to stop you spending more time fiddling with your GPS than you do looking at the road.
Or perhaps I know nothing
you can over ride the idiot mode by putting a piece of insulating tape over one of the contacts on the back of the unit. This will allow you to fiddle, while on the move, otherwise you cant, and the unit goes to a more basic menu. nick
Keba
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The 'Drive Mode' issue is a hardware triggered one.
See this post (and go to the 4th post from the bottom) for a good example of how to disable 'Drive Mode' whilst still allowing the Rider to charge...
http://www.mytomtomgo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4217
To be honest, if you are commuting then 'Drive Mode' isn't actually that bad most of the time. There are many ways and means to making the normal mode far more usable in most cases (like using custom menus and only showing 4 buttons per menu page) if you do wish to disable Drive Mode.
Just be careful if you do I guess!
[edited to say that I had this post in a different tab ready to reply for a couple of hours and didn't see Nick's post before I actually got around to typing and hitting Save... Silly me!
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See this post (and go to the 4th post from the bottom) for a good example of how to disable 'Drive Mode' whilst still allowing the Rider to charge...
http://www.mytomtomgo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4217
To be honest, if you are commuting then 'Drive Mode' isn't actually that bad most of the time. There are many ways and means to making the normal mode far more usable in most cases (like using custom menus and only showing 4 buttons per menu page) if you do wish to disable Drive Mode.
Just be careful if you do I guess!
[edited to say that I had this post in a different tab ready to reply for a couple of hours and didn't see Nick's post before I actually got around to typing and hitting Save... Silly me!
)OK all - thanks for the advice. What I'm hearing is that:
It has to Garmin - otherwise I won't be doing PC based route generation;
The 2720 is the 'stuff the cost' weapon of choice - as the whole of Europe will fit in the memory...;
Have I understood that correctly?
What I'm trying to work out is the total cost of the options, as it would seem clear that to get the same with each I have to purchase different memory and different mapping options....
So more research to do then...
It has to Garmin - otherwise I won't be doing PC based route generation;
The 2720 is the 'stuff the cost' weapon of choice - as the whole of Europe will fit in the memory...;
Have I understood that correctly?
What I'm trying to work out is the total cost of the options, as it would seem clear that to get the same with each I have to purchase different memory and different mapping options....
So more research to do then...
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