What a total dick you have become.
What a total dick you have become.
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 ) 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 ) 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
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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I really feel for you, the amount of anger you have pent up within your psyche must at times be almost debilitating.
I'm not usually one to retort to this kind of response but.
Fanum,
I really feel for you, the amount of anger you have pent up within your psyche must at times be almost debilitating.
I have over my extensive working career met and worked professionally with many angry people. The stress it ultimately causes themselves and people close to them can at times be very destructive if not managed effectively.
Do yourself and those around you a favour, have a good look at your anger.
Steve
I've had a quest and zumo 550 but the best so far on my bike was the nuvi
I have used car sat navs on the bike with no issue. No world touring just UK and Ireland runs. No issues. Pick your sat nav carefully though. £80 will not allow you to do much other than get from A - C via B.
...and what sort of GPS do YOU have ?
As you can see a Garmin 660. Had a Sreetpilot to begin with - was good in it's day.
As you can see I also have ridiculous metal panniers with the totally stupid external oil can etc.
I remember one of you earlier rants on this paricular subject.
Riding in Chile, two up, metal cases and oil cans are eminently sensible
If you'd bought them just to look good on your way to Tesco though, with no intention of going any further, it would make you a tit
Ah we are as one