Twisties Vs Scenic
Road Warrior
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Scenic curves for me. Twisty's require total concentration. Scenic equals enjoy the view. I've ran the backside of the Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho switchback after switchback and while its beautiful is also challenging. Slow rolling curves in a scenic environment equals perfect.
Road Master
Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Port Coquitlam B.C.
I haven't compared the two in question but I do know if it's set on fastest or shortest and you go off route it constantly tells you to turn around. When set on scenic and you go off route it re calculates using the way you're currently going, so I'm keeping mine on scenic.
Road Captain
Joined: Aug 2008
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From: Shreveport,La
I haven't compared the two in question but I do know if it's set on fastest or shortest and you go off route it constantly tells you to turn around. When set on scenic and you go off route it re calculates using the way you're currently going, so I'm keeping mine on scenic.
Mine has often tried to put me on dirt roads as well in Arkansas. Both twisty and scenic. I usually just skip next waypoint and it recalculates the route from where I am most times.
There are many things about the gps that could be better. Most cheap garmin gps's have more data visible on other screens. Ours you have to change the one screen option from distance to destination, or time t. d., or elevation,.... That would be pretty easy to add a separate screen with all that data on display, but then HD would probably get sued because of the idiot that ran off the road again....LOL. I used a Garmin on my other bikes for years and just find I miss not being able to see all the info easily. My only minor gripe with the system.
Cruiser
Joined: Mar 2016
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From: ft worth, tx
So I wonder....
Has anyone done a route on the Rushmore more than once; where they did Twisties and then Scenic on a later ride to the same place?
I'm just wondering how you found the route preferences to actually be.
Does scenic really always give you a more picturesque route?
And as such; do you prefer Twisties to Scenic or vice-versa?
Has anyone done a route on the Rushmore more than once; where they did Twisties and then Scenic on a later ride to the same place?
I'm just wondering how you found the route preferences to actually be.
Does scenic really always give you a more picturesque route?
And as such; do you prefer Twisties to Scenic or vice-versa?
On my non Rushmore bikes in the last 40 years YES I have ridden to the same destination on a different route.
Last edited by 7roper7; May 27, 2016 at 05:19 PM.
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From: Rolla
Mine has never tried to route me onto a dirt road (even in Northwest Arkansas).
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Road Master
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From: NH / VT border
My Wife And I Just Returned From NH to PA trip And I Tried The Twisty Option. It Would Take Us Off Main Roads And Route Us Through Every Housing Development And Industrial Park We Passed, Just To Dump Us Back Onto The Main Road A Few Hundred Yards Further Down. Although Technically The Roads Could Be Considered Twisty Its Not Really What We Had In Mind...
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From: Georgia
My Wife And I Just Returned From NH to PA trip And I Tried The Twisty Option. It Would Take Us Off Main Roads And Route Us Through Every Housing Development And Industrial Park We Passed, Just To Dump Us Back Onto The Main Road A Few Hundred Yards Further Down. Although Technically The Roads Could Be Considered Twisty Its Not Really What We Had In Mind...
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From: Tulsa, OK
Mine put us on a logging road, we left Fontana Dam on 28 headed back to Robbinsville, we came out 2 miles from Deals Gap on Tapoco RD(129) I could hear my wife cussing me and she was behind my bro.
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But it definitely did find my definition of twisty finally!
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