majicmaker
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YIKES!! Was all of this Crap Worth it?! I'm Scared of even Thinking about GPS's Now! :assassin:
Somebody Close this thing Already!! :lol:
Somebody Close this thing Already!! :lol:
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God Please!!! MAKE THEM STOP!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well PanAmerican I'm with you on the GPS thing. I have been using one for a few years now and I haven't had any voice prompts in my helmet and I have done fine. I purchase the Nuvi 220 because it is (or was)the cheapest waterproof gps that garmin sold. I think I paid $200 for it. I meets all my needs and it really is waterproof.I have been reading up on all the GPS posts here with a keen interest. I want to get one myself. Garmin seems to be the logical choice by popularity and features. So I looked at their four motorcycle offerings. Being an engineer I always try to do an analysis first.
The Garmin Zumo 665: Read a lot of bad Juju on many different sites and on Youtube. It seems to not be fully developed yet. Plus you need to mount the antenna off like some sort of afterthough doo-dad. I am not sure I want to use my telephone or listen to XM when I ride. I wear ear plugs and want my full attention to the idiots I share the road with.
The Garmin Zumo 660: The junior Zumo 665. All the problems with less features.
So that left me to campare the Zumo 550 and Zumo 220. After reading all the product review on the global interweb I though it would be a slam-dunk decision. I was wrong.
The best choice, for me was the Zumo 220. It cost less. It had enough battery to run a full day. And it had more features.
Geez, I have found a brother. Lets have peace and quiet while you are riding and just pay attention to the world around you . It is beautiful, but if you are listening to a radio or someone on a phone you are not even on vacation. Shut it out, have some peace and quiet and enjoy the world as it should be.+10The deal breaker for me would be no headphone jack. I could never hear voice prompts from the unit itself and taking my eyes off the road in an unfamiliar place where I need GPSdirections equates to bad things happening!
The coolest and most essential thing about a GPS on a touring bike is, having carefully plotted in the route, and being far far away from home in unfamiliar territory, that the lovely GPS bitch tells you when and where to turn. Even when it's dark and raining. No audio jack out would immediately remove a unit from consideration for me, no matter what else it might do.
To me it is the last thing I want a GPS to do. I can follow the visual queues thank you very much. Besides when I'm riding - I'm listening to what's going on around me. I don't want to hear a voice telling me which way to go.
To each his/her/its own.
Well, if you have used a GPS on a motorcycle before then I guess you know what works for you, but I tried it without listening to the voice and it was much more distracting to keep looking at the GPS that any voice commands. I also missed a lot of turns because I didn't look down at the GPS often enough.
For 42 years I have navigated my way around America with a paper map just fine. I've also got a Casio Pathfinder watch which can give me atomically accurate time, a compass, altitutde, barametric temperature and the temperature. I've got a GPS built into my car and I've muted that SOB too. When I'm traveling up WI Hyw 67 snd and looking for County Road F I don't need a voice telling me it's 2 miles, 1 mile, 1/2 mile, 100 ft, here. Seriously, maybe I'm old school about it. Just give me an arrow which way to turn.
What I want is to travel, see an interesting road, take it and know that the damn GPS will get me back home. I'm not frickin' Ferdinand Magellan tacking around the Cape of Good Hope. I can figure it out. Sometimes, I might even stop and ask directions. Meeting interesting people is part of a good ride experience too.
I'm not in that big of a hurry. I don't want people calling me on my cell phone when I'm riding. If I have to make a call, I'll pull over, park the bike and make a call. I don't want to listen to Howard Stern. NPR, FoxNews, CNN, the ball game, religious talk shows, that same rock and roll I've listened to for the last 50 years. I want solitude. It's me and the road. And this little device which can help get my tired ass home for dinner.
That's all.
Some people are afraid to be alone with their thoughts. It maybe just a case of unfamiliarity.Geez, I have found a brother. Lets have peace and quiet while you are riding and just pay attention to the world around you . It is beautiful, but if you are listening to a radio or someone on a phone you are not even on vacation. Shut it out, have some peace and quiet and enjoy the world as it should be.To me it is the last thing I want a GPS to do. I can follow the visual queues thank you very much. Besides when I'm riding - I'm listening to what's going on around me. I don't want to hear a voice telling me which way to go.+10The deal breaker for me would be no headphone jack. I could never hear voice prompts from the unit itself and taking my eyes off the road in an unfamiliar place where I need GPSdirections equates to bad things happening!
The coolest and most essential thing about a GPS on a touring bike is, having carefully plotted in the route, and being far far away from home in unfamiliar territory, that the lovely GPS bitch tells you when and where to turn. Even when it's dark and raining. No audio jack out would immediately remove a unit from consideration for me, no matter what else it might do.
To each his/her/its own.
Well, if you have used a GPS on a motorcycle before then I guess you know what works for you, but I tried it without listening to the voice and it was much more distracting to keep looking at the GPS that any voice commands. I also missed a lot of turns because I didn't look down at the GPS often enough.
For 42 years I have navigated my way around America with a paper map just fine. I've also got a Casio Pathfinder watch which can give me atomically accurate time, a compass, altitutde, barametric temperature and the temperature. I've got a GPS built into my car and I've muted that SOB too. When I'm traveling up WI Hyw 67 snd and looking for County Road F I don't need a voice telling me it's 2 miles, 1 mile, 1/2 mile, 100 ft, here. Seriously, maybe I'm old school about it. Just give me an arrow which way to turn.
What I want is to travel, see an interesting road, take it and know that the damn GPS will get me back home. I'm not frickin' Ferdinand Magellan tacking around the Cape of Good Hope. I can figure it out. Sometimes, I might even stop and ask directions. Meeting interesting people is part of a good ride experience too.
I'm not in that big of a hurry. I don't want people calling me on my cell phone when I'm riding. If I have to make a call, I'll pull over, park the bike and make a call. I don't want to listen to Howard Stern. NPR, FoxNews, CNN, the ball game, religious talk shows, that same rock and roll I've listened to for the last 50 years. I want solitude. It's me and the road. And this little device which can help get my tired ass home for dinner.
That's all.
Mac
Buy a digitizer + LCD screen assembly on ebay for about $35-40, as your digitizer is needing replacement. Easy to do yourself. If you buy the digitizer only, it is harder to do.I've got the 550 and it works great aside from teh touchscreen being alittle squirrely at times when I'm tring to enter information.
I am NOT a fan of the scrolling alphabet keyboard input feature and mine ocasionally selects random letters that arent even on the screen at the time.
ADMIN INTERRUPTION!Please tell me where I made inquiries about this topic or where I solicited others for advice on this matter?
Thoughts? What thoughts? There are supposed to be thoughts in there? :dribble:Some people are afraid to be alone with their thoughts. It maybe just a case of unfamiliarity.
Well said. A little succint, but still, well said.
Well said. A little succint, but still, well said.
before anyone replies, are their conditions/constraints/expectations?So, I'm looking at this to mount the Garmin.
It's from Yamaha of Canada and I can't seem to find it anywhere else. I like the fact that it brings the device closer to my eyes (just a bit), it looks nice, and it's a Genuine Yamaha part.
Anybody ever seen this one before?
https://www.yamahagenuineparts.com/Motorcycle/moreinfo.asp?ID=699&shopcat=accessories&Class=Sport Touring&Year=2009&Model=FJR1300
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