Harley Ride Planner HELP
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Road Warrior
Joined: Mar 2012
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From: Holly Springs, North Carolina
Harley Ride Planner HELP
Has anyone figured the new redesign out? I'm trying to do a day loop. It's wants you to put a begin location & and end. I don't want to put an end, but I have to. My start place (breakfast place) then head north & loop around counter clockwise to the south. It creates a straight shot down south to my "end" spot. I've tried dragging and can create my loop, but the original line is still there also & it creates short cuts I don't want to take. Any advice? The new mobile app...the end spot is optional. Only drawback to mobile app, is you can't export, even though you can see it on the laptop website.
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From: Northford, CT
Takes some playing with it but here is what works for me. You have to put in a start location. Then pick your route right click will ask if it is destination click continue with you route right click add a location until you get the route you want. May have to work at moving locations around to get what you want. Now go back to second location (destination with a flag) right click change to wa wy point keep doing that along the route until you get to the end and change to destination. Make sure the way point is on the road (zoom in) if you are off no telling where it will really take you. Hope that helps you some. It does take some practice to get what you are looking for.
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Road Warrior
Joined: Mar 2012
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From: Holly Springs, North Carolina
I tried again. Still can't eliminate the straight shot line & it still creates multiple shortcuts that I can't eliminate. Guess I'll stick to the Honda Trip Planner. Much easier to use. Law Abiding Biker has a video explaining to new design & mobile app. But I shouldn't need to pay $20 to figure webpage out.
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Joined: Jun 2013
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From: St. Michael, MN
HD ride planner is very finicky, no doubt. I've also found you should make as sure as much as possible that the route guidance on your bike's nav is also set to match your preferred route plan in ride planner, twisty, longest, etc. If your bike nav is set to fastest, and the imported route is setup to follow twistys, I think the nav gets confused and can't figure out the route you really want to take.
I have had success dragging the route to the roads I want, but I am careful to double check with google maps to make sure that it's not an unpaved road, toll, ferry, etc. as if those options are checked in my nav as avoidances, it REALLY screws stuff up.
Then I'll add waypoints to the newly dragged route. But, when adding waypoints, try to place them just "around the corner" of turns you want it to take you on so it sort of "forces" the nav system to cross the waypoint, if that makes sense.
If using the ride planner app, my buddy figured out that it works best if you DON'T have an ending destination, rather, just a start and waypoints only. It may have changed with recent updates, but that's just our experience.
I have had success dragging the route to the roads I want, but I am careful to double check with google maps to make sure that it's not an unpaved road, toll, ferry, etc. as if those options are checked in my nav as avoidances, it REALLY screws stuff up.
Then I'll add waypoints to the newly dragged route. But, when adding waypoints, try to place them just "around the corner" of turns you want it to take you on so it sort of "forces" the nav system to cross the waypoint, if that makes sense.
If using the ride planner app, my buddy figured out that it works best if you DON'T have an ending destination, rather, just a start and waypoints only. It may have changed with recent updates, but that's just our experience.
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Road Warrior
Joined: Mar 2012
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From: Holly Springs, North Carolina
HD ride planner is very finicky, no doubt. I've also found you should make as sure as much as possible that the route guidance on your bike's nav is also set to match your preferred route plan in ride planner, twisty, longest, etc. If your bike nav is set to fastest, and the imported route is setup to follow twistys, I think the nav gets confused and can't figure out the route you really want to take.
I have had success dragging the route to the roads I want, but I am careful to double check with google maps to make sure that it's not an unpaved road, toll, ferry, etc. as if those options are checked in my nav as avoidances, it REALLY screws stuff up.
Then I'll add waypoints to the newly dragged route. But, when adding waypoints, try to place them just "around the corner" of turns you want it to take you on so it sort of "forces" the nav system to cross the waypoint, if that makes sense.
If using the ride planner app, my buddy figured out that it works best if you DON'T have an ending destination, rather, just a start and waypoints only. It may have changed with recent updates, but that's just our experience.
I have had success dragging the route to the roads I want, but I am careful to double check with google maps to make sure that it's not an unpaved road, toll, ferry, etc. as if those options are checked in my nav as avoidances, it REALLY screws stuff up.
Then I'll add waypoints to the newly dragged route. But, when adding waypoints, try to place them just "around the corner" of turns you want it to take you on so it sort of "forces" the nav system to cross the waypoint, if that makes sense.
If using the ride planner app, my buddy figured out that it works best if you DON'T have an ending destination, rather, just a start and waypoints only. It may have changed with recent updates, but that's just our experience.
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