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Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2011 - 07:44 pm: | 
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map, compass, spot emergency locator
we have some very off grid, out of service areas up here, GPS is not as 'global' as y'all think. |
Cataract2
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2011 - 07:46 pm: |
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You have to be smarter than the thing you're working with. |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2011 - 07:49 pm: |
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Birdy, I'm sure you're talking about I-285... and I don't use it no matter how the traffic is downtown. That perimeter highway is the worst maintained road in the state.
Besides, the people here don't know about real traffic. I lived in So Cal most of my life. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 11:46 pm: |
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quote:Paper is great when you have a number of you gathered around trying to plan where to head next.
My 10.1" tablet does wonders then too. 
quote:Apart from that - having all that junk on the handlebars like Court has would really annoy me.
I think a fuel gauge is overkill.
Hmm, guess you wouldn't want to borrow my 1125R.
quote:A couple of weeks ago down in Franklin, TN my GPS wanted me to go up an expressway ramp the wrong way
While I've never had that happen, I've seen it try and tell me to get on a ramp on the other side of traffic instead of the ramp to my right. I use the GPS to plot me to work every day, I'm not sure why out of the blue it wanted me to make the left instead of the normal right. I just made the right.
quote:My Nuvi is a couple years old, and works great in most situations. The live traffic is a complete joke, however... and the pop-up ads are pretty annoying.
265WT? It was one of the first Nuvi's to get free traffic, but to be free you get an occasional ad if you are in a covered area. I find that it and weather works great on my Zumo 550, but the they are provided by XM and are not the same as the FM based ones.
quote:Downtown Atlanta, the Garmin spins around in circles saying "recalculating, recalculating"....
You are driving too fast 
quote:map, compass, spot emergency locator
we have some very off grid, out of service areas up here, GPS is not as 'global' as y'all think.
With WAAS enabled, coverage is pretty solid. That reminds me, good luck finding a phone that supports that!
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Danger_dave
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 01:57 am: |
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Yep. Although trying to dislodge them while stunting could be fun. |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 07:49 am: |
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Ha I use painters tape on the Tank I write the route on it , I carry a roll and a sharpie works great so far till I hit a closed road anyway But I seriously don't care if I get lost while riding MOF I kinda like it |
Xl1200r
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 09:36 am: |
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Lots of good discussion and opinions, here, but I think the biggest advantage hasn't been mentioned yet.
When I'm riding with a GPS, I'm not constantly slowing down at every intersection so I can read the street sign to see if that's where I need to turn. I just ride until I'm told to change something.
If I miss a turn, or make a wrong one, I know about it right away and the 'machine' gets me back on track one way or another. With a map, you may not realize your error, and if you do, it generally means stopping to get out the paper and figure out where you are and where you're heading.
Planning routes electronically (for me I just use Google Maps on my computer and plan a route to mimic it) means I can see very quickly the details and the big picture and how changes will affect my mileage and time.
All that said, I did use a paper map on my x-country trip for the sole purpose of trying to locate the road that led into the north rim of the grand canyon. I would have found it eventually using my phone, but it was easier on paper for that. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 11:24 am: |
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When I'm riding with a GPS, I'm not constantly slowing down at every intersection so I can read the street sign to see if that's where I need to turn. I just ride until I'm told to change something.
It can go deeper than that. It's the difference between leading a ride and just merrily following along. There's a whole lot of mental activity that goes into navigation when you are the one making decisions on where to go. You get to avoid all the mental gymnastics and focus more on enjoying the ride when you are following someone else. With a planned route in the GPS you get the wide open views of leading the ride, but still get to just follow the GPS. Of course you still have the freedom to deviate from the plan at the drop of a hat and go exploring blindly the old fashioned way.
I find it to be one of the best ways to get from A to B in an unknown area while trying to keep on the best roads. I'm leaving Friday to head south and will spend a good deal of time on roads I've never seen going through KY. There's going to be a lot of turns to get right or wrong while still trying to get toward NC. The smaller roads are often poorly marked and often marked differently than my map. I would also be making way too many stops to check the maps. |
Dfbutler
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 03:35 pm: |
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As the originator of this thread, I did forget one thing. With the GPS you can save your actual track that seems others on the ride like to see. The phone doesn't. I can see me using both. If I have to find a place, like a restaraunt, I'd use the phone to get me there. If I'm going on a ride and want to end up somewhere, say the Rock Store, I can meander around the Santa Monica mountains and my GPS will tell me where to turn at the next intersection. |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 05:32 pm: |
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I don't use a mobile phone either.
I've got one. The cheapest handset I could buy, but it hasn't been used this year yet. |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 09:30 pm: |
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I lead quite a lot but I enjoy reading a map a few times and making a pre-ride or two of any scheduled event we do they can be awful fun . But it truly depends on each individual,I see no reason not to have one I just don't enjoy it that much I like and am comfortable doing a ride from just a puddle jump to leading 150 mile ride through the mountains my way , but I don't mind a guy using a GPS. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Friday, July 15, 2011 - 09:27 pm: |
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I rode almost 500 miles today, much on roads I've never seen before. Never once had to wonder about missing a turn. Tomorrow the real fun part begins. Stopped in Slade, KY for the night. |
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