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First you create the planned route on the Harley planner web site keep in mind each point you create is considered a way point on some devices. For the motorcycle unit you can only have 8 or 9 points. Once you create the trip you want to export it to a gpx file on a USB drive.
After you have it on your drive you want to import it to you motorcycle by going to navigation home page, the the top right it has a button called menu push that and then go to import and pick the device from the choices and then the route you made.
To ride that route you go back to the navigation he page then to Where To, the more and finally trips and it should be there.
A note about this make sure your points are easy to get too because you have to ride within like 50 ft of the point or it will keep routing you to that point. It takes a few try's to get this and I would suggest you plan a trip around your town or street so you see how it works.
After you have it on your drive you want to import it to you motorcycle by going to navigation home page, the the top right it has a button called menu push that and then go to import and pick the device from the choices and then the route you made.
To ride that route you go back to the navigation he page then to Where To, the more and finally trips and it should be there.
A note about this make sure your points are easy to get too because you have to ride within like 50 ft of the point or it will keep routing you to that point. It takes a few try's to get this and I would suggest you plan a trip around your town or street so you see how it works.
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I have been suffering with the NAV too! Much easier for me to mount the Garmin on the bar, but I am attempting to figure it out. The waypoint thing drives me crazy also, I see the waypoint is a bit off my desired route, so I keep on going and everytime I come to a street it wants me to go back to the waypoint. I have stopped the route and then reloaded it in an effort to miss that particular waypoint, sometimes it works, most times it doesn't.
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I have been suffering with the NAV too! Much easier for me to mount the Garmin on the bar, but I am attempting to figure it out. The waypoint thing drives me crazy also, I see the waypoint is a bit off my desired route, so I keep on going and everytime I come to a street it wants me to go back to the waypoint. I have stopped the route and then reloaded it in an effort to miss that particular waypoint, sometimes it works, most times it doesn't.
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Still working on the NAV system
I spent some time working on a route that was different than I have entered previously, just to test the system. It's like the NAV has a mind of it's own, it never made some of the turns I had programed into the trip and I had to turn it off again as it was going somewhere else. I will try the next waypoint, but I am rapidly getting a non-trusting feeling towards the new system. I may go back to mounting the Garmin Zumo on the bar. OH, and don't use an Apple computer either.
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I had the same issue at first but then realized that the route only uses the waypoints and then routes the trip based on your settings. So if you have the default set to avoid highways and toll roads it will make a route with those settings. It's not following the same route you plan unless you use the same settings on both the planner and the bike.
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sorry about the delay in getting back to this. I don't see any route settings in Ride Planner. I just start with an address and a destination, then move the way points to follow the roads I want to use.
Again, the gps has a mind of it's own. I did have the bike gps set to scenic, but don't see that option on the computer.
Again, the gps has a mind of it's own. I did have the bike gps set to scenic, but don't see that option on the computer.
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I have using the 6.5 since last August and have endured a lot of frustrating moments. I feel like I have a much better handle on it now. I will say, that once you get it programed correctly it is better/ easier to ride with than any other GPS that I have used. During the least two months I have put together and ridden 6-8 200 mile rides in the Texas Hill Country and it has performed perfectly (there is no way getting around the 9 waypoint issue).
A couple of things that I do that have not previously been mentioned.
1. I personally only use Ride Planner
2. Always start and end the route with a "location" and use waypoints in between (if I use locations in the middle of the route, the system will break the single route into multiple routes).
3. You must be very precise in the placement of waypoints. Zoom in for each waypoint and put it exactly where you want it.
4. When you upload the route to the bike, only upload the primary route
5. The thing that I do, that I always did with my Zumo 665, and for some I didn't start out doing with the 6.5 is to preview every route on the GPS prior to the ride. The 6.5 has a review mode but it runs at travel speed/time (a 100 mile trip could take 2 hours) so it is not practical to use. You can, however, you the touch screen and move throughout the route pretty fast, once you see a variance you will have to go back to ride planner to correct.
I have found that all of the variances occur because my waypoints were not placed accurately enough or I was trying to conserve waypoints (due to the limit of 9). The more I use the 6.5 the fewer variances I am having.
A couple of things that I do that have not previously been mentioned.
1. I personally only use Ride Planner
2. Always start and end the route with a "location" and use waypoints in between (if I use locations in the middle of the route, the system will break the single route into multiple routes).
3. You must be very precise in the placement of waypoints. Zoom in for each waypoint and put it exactly where you want it.
4. When you upload the route to the bike, only upload the primary route
5. The thing that I do, that I always did with my Zumo 665, and for some I didn't start out doing with the 6.5 is to preview every route on the GPS prior to the ride. The 6.5 has a review mode but it runs at travel speed/time (a 100 mile trip could take 2 hours) so it is not practical to use. You can, however, you the touch screen and move throughout the route pretty fast, once you see a variance you will have to go back to ride planner to correct.
I have found that all of the variances occur because my waypoints were not placed accurately enough or I was trying to conserve waypoints (due to the limit of 9). The more I use the 6.5 the fewer variances I am having.
Last edited by emu309; May 3, 2014 at 07:49 AM.