Got A New GPS Unit
Tourer
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The Garmin Nuvi line is mostly for cagers, but there are two models—the 500 and 550—that are waterproof! Awesome for motorcycling, and a lot cheaper than spending $600+ for the motorcycle-specific Zumo models.
And for those who like the purity of riding without a GPS or any electronic gadgets... they all come with "OFF" buttons as a standard feature, so you can enjoy the ride in old-fashioned style until you realize that you have to be at work eventually. Then you can flip it back on to get you where you need to be, when you need to be there.
And for those who like the purity of riding without a GPS or any electronic gadgets... they all come with "OFF" buttons as a standard feature, so you can enjoy the ride in old-fashioned style until you realize that you have to be at work eventually. Then you can flip it back on to get you where you need to be, when you need to be there.
Road Master
Joined: Dec 2007
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From: In the Pacific Northwest, a few hours east of Seattle.
My Zumo came with a wiring harness that would allow me to wire it to one of the two switches on the fork of my 2004 RK Custom. The wiring diagram and instructions were not difficult to understand; it ran from the mount on the handlebars down to the switch and then from the front switch back beneath the gas tank to the battery and wired in there. But I confess that when I came to the line that read: "remove the gas tank from the bike" I balked. Considering my history of solving one electrical problem only to cause two others, and the fact that its an EFI bike, and the fact that I was having both front and rear tires replaced at the same time, I handed the wiring harness to the Harley tech and asked him to wire it up while he was putting on new tires. He did, it works great.
I can understand a purist's point of view that a GPS unit may not be in "the pure spirit of motorcycling...", whatever that is. But I ride with the Patriot Guard, and we will often be given the address of an obscure church or funeral home in a small town in some part of the state we've never been in, and told to rendezvous there at a specific time. When you need to be in a specific place at a specific time, and you don't have time to be screwing around getting lost and then re-found again, the GPS can be priceless. Do a bit of mapquest digging on MapQuest.com, enter the address into the GPS, and hit the road. The GPS eliminates a lot of issues before they become issues. Guess I'm just not a purist!
Just MHO. YMMV.
I can understand a purist's point of view that a GPS unit may not be in "the pure spirit of motorcycling...", whatever that is. But I ride with the Patriot Guard, and we will often be given the address of an obscure church or funeral home in a small town in some part of the state we've never been in, and told to rendezvous there at a specific time. When you need to be in a specific place at a specific time, and you don't have time to be screwing around getting lost and then re-found again, the GPS can be priceless. Do a bit of mapquest digging on MapQuest.com, enter the address into the GPS, and hit the road. The GPS eliminates a lot of issues before they become issues. Guess I'm just not a purist!
Just MHO. YMMV.
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