| Author | Message | ||
     Midknyte |
Poking around for an affordable GPS... Anyone have any experience or comments on this one or similar? http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexLegend/ Seems to be a nice unit, with map style navigation. Under $200 & *bonus* the perfect color [to go with my Blue 9R].  | ||
| Cataract2 |
Recommendation. Always keep a map with you. The GPS is a good guide but a good map is always good to have also. | ||
| Blasterd |
Midknyte, I just bought that GPS today, althought I haven't had time to really check it out yet. I do have a Garmin GPS 72 I am going to sell. Ken | ||
| Midknyte |
Do these things need to be oriented in a certain way to operate? I dunno how I'd mount this to my R. Could I stick it in a jacket pocket and still track... | ||
| Mike_bolts |
Whitehorse Press http://www.whitehorsepress.com Has a variety of mounting systems and water tight cases for electronics. | ||
| Mbsween |
I have the Emap version, same sort of thing with less onboard memory if I remember correctly. Orientation doesn't matter much, although mine takes a good 3 - 5 minutes to acquire a signal at startup. I have mine mounted to the bars with a clip from garmin. (cost was about 10.00) Search for garmin legend on ebay, you'll be able to get power/data cables/cases etc at reasonable costs. I've also bought the north america streets map and a 64mb data cartridge. The maps are great and their updated pretty frequently. The real PIA is that the GPS I have only talks serial and it can take quite awhile to download maps to it. I bought the AC/data cable to deal with this. Th neat thing is you get a record of where you went, how fast etc. Don't be surprised to se speeds in excess of 300 mph occasionally (I'm thinking software glitch or I have the fastest Buell on the planet) One of the best features is when you go someplace new, set a waypoint from a known location (gas station , store whatever) ride around for awhile then have the GPS tell you how to get back. Its great for rallies an such. Mainly just play with the damn thing to get used to the features. And remember the GPS i going to show you what you're about to hit, so look at the road, not the GPS  | ||
| Cruisin |
Mount it off the handlebar - www.gpsdiscount.com might have one you can use. There's a perfect spot on the left handlebar of the R:   | ||
| Midknyte |
I just bought that GPS today Blasterd - I just came into a little, as yet unaccounted for, mad money (the SO does not know about it yet...). Was looking at this a little bit harder again. This eTrex Legend comes pre-loaded with north american maps of "major roads". I'm wondering what you have found constitutes a major road? Also, is this basemap updatable or is it in a burned ROM. How difficult is it to "fill in the gaps" and load map data for your destination(s) area for a ride? Do you need to purchase the extended map data? | ||
| Blasterd |
Bradley, Just found the post again, boy there are alot of new threads here lately. The "major roads" in my area were mainly I-state, state roads, and county roads. It did also recognize some "back roads" as well. I loaded the Mapsource CD and it gets every road I come across so far. including those dirt road short cuts you hear about here in the dirty south. It's pretty easy to use, you can load data by address and navigate from there. I still haven't used it much but it works well so far. The screen is kind of small though. Did I mention I have a GPS 72 for sale cheap? You going to be in Daytona? Hope this helps. Ken |
