Tomtom Urban Rider (Twisty Roads Option)

[Tusky]

If anyone is tempted to get an Urban Rider because of the twisty roads option, don't waist your time.

I pride myself on my sense of direction and knowledge of roads, so I think I am well qualified to say what a pile of rubbish this feature is.

It totally ignores some very good biking roads in preference to completely random ones that shoot off at a tangent.... The shortest route seems to be a far better option, as does not take you all around the houses on some rubbish roads..

Surely a better feature would be 'recommended biking roads' rather than the gibberish twisty routes that it devises....... Thank god for TYRE and the fastest route option is all I can say.

Don't get me wrong, I am not slaging off Tomtom, I stuck it on shortest route yesterday and it took me on a blinding array of B roads but my point is that the twisty option would have probably missed all those gems and stuck me on something it perceived as a twisty

Other moan is IQ routes.... what utter rubbish this feature is on a motorbike.... If I wanted to use rat runs around the back streets of some god forsaken French town at rush hour, I would be in a car not a motorbike !!!

and breath

Apart from that...... very happy with the unit and still score it 9 out of 10

 

[TomTom GS Rider]

lol, very honest.

If you go into Planning Preferences you can disable or enable IQR. Its enabled by default as a kind of "local knowledge" inside the device.

Regardless of bike or car is should actually save time on the journey although this may not be your preferred route it will get you there statistically quicker with that option enabled. Its the speed profiles for that road of the last 4 years recorded by other TomTom users show that at the time of day you are travelling you can achieve a higher average speed so will therefore get to your destination earlier.

Winding Roadshas been something requested for a long time now by TomToms userbase and they have integrated it into their latest Urban Rider products.

It helps select you a scenic/tecnical/entertaining route for you to play on and avoids unneccesary use of motorways and dual carriageways which most sat nav products will overproritise. It doesnt however know a score of the road by users which is what I think users presume, it could potentially be a horrible road or the best road you have ever ridden but it is grading the road on the data the TomTom does have, grade (A / B / Motorway / etc) and complexity or twisty-ness.

http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/rider2010/refman/TomTom-Rider-en-GB.pdf - page 13 for more info

 

[Tusky]

lol, very honest.

If you go into Planning Preferences you can disable or enable IQR. Its enabled by default as a kind of "local knowledge" inside the device.

Regardless of bike or car is should actually save time on the journey although this may not be your preferred route it will get you there statistically quicker with that option enabled. Its the speed profiles for that road of the last 4 years recorded by other TomTom users show that at the time of day you are travelling you can achieve a higher average speed so will therefore get to your destination earlier.

Winding Roadshas been something requested for a long time now by TomToms userbase and they have integrated it into their latest Urban Rider products.

It helps select you a scenic/tecnical/entertaining route for you to play on and avoids unneccesary use of motorways and dual carriageways which most sat nav products will overproritise. It doesnt however know a score of the road by users which is what I think users presume, it could potentially be a horrible road or the best road you have ever ridden but it is grading the road on the data the TomTom does have, grade (A / B / Motorway / etc) and complexity or twisty-ness.

http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/rider2010/refman/TomTom-Rider-en-GB.pdf - page 13 for more info

Glad you took my honest appraisal the right way

Yup I soon disabled the IQR feature in France after my fourth bizarre rat run diversion of the day that said, it is probably a pretty damn useful feature when driving a car, which I intend to use, if and when Tomtom get their arse in gear and have sufficient stocks of the in-car mount to supply the resellers with !!!

Your comments on the twisty roads option are very interesting and it does support my theory of the random nature of the routes, perhaps Tomtom are missing a trick on providing a Europe wide version of 'Best Biking Roads' as a download upgrade. scrub that idea..... I am not sure the internal memory will be able to cope with that

 

[zerocool]

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