R1. 20. 0GS satellite navigation. Satellite Navigation. The Tomtom Rider The Garmin 2. C20F8010FA2213E4.jpg' alt='Tomtom Maps Eastern Europe' title='Tomtom Maps Eastern Europe' />Mounting the Garmin Holiday Route Planning Power Supply. Garmin Zumo. Why Use Them. When I am on a mountain expedition the skill of navigating across open country using OS maps and a compass is part of the enjoyment but I dont get a great kick out following roads in an atlas when on the bike or in the car. I want to enjoy the ride, check out the scenery and improve my riding skills. Being distracted by trying to read a vibrating map on a tank bag or stopping regularly to find my route in an atlas is not part of the fun. For biking satnav is great. A nice clear map which always shows my current position plus a simple arrow and a voice prompt giving me directions is far preferable. No more crawling along trying to find that side street that the local village idiot told me was just down there on the right. With the satnav I know its 5. In the car, the satnav has, with a couple of button pushes, found a way around major traffic hold ups. On the bike its got me all over Europe without ever having to refer to a map and found fuel when I was getting desperate plus hotels and cash machines. My First Satnav Tomtom Rider. Shortly after I bought the GS the Tomtom Rider appeared and it seemed perfect, even at the 6. Installation guide on how to update your device All updates for fixed and mobile speed cameras, every day, for all GPS devices. One of the biggest GPS maps download and tutorials webpage. Kb Sundarambal Tamil Mp3 Songs. Find maps for your vehicle navigation or other GPS device 20122013 Mercedes Comand DVD EUROPE APS NTG1 V. DVD VERSION NEW 2014 VERSION IS HEREI bought one and after a lot of hassle with the Mickey Mouse fitting kit with the chocolate screws fitted it to the bikes screen mount. For a while I thought it was wonderful and it is a pretty good bit of kit for getting from A to B. Then the disillusionment started. The original Rider only had UK maps so I spent 1. Europe and a larger SD memory card. Then I discovered that Europe was divided into a number of maps and although I could get them all onto one card the satnav could only read one at a time. Door to door from France to Germany, for example, meant navigating with one map to the border, then changing to the next to the destination. OK I could live with it but then I found setting up long routes with waypoints was a pig. The final straw was when I had the well documented bracket problems. At that stage, after spending 6. RAM mount to replace the supplied crap, 1. Tomtom Maps Eastern Europe' title='Tomtom Maps Eastern Europe' />SD card, I gave up and bought a Garmin 2. Much better than the Rider but my wife now has a nice new Rider Mark II which full European mapping which was a free gift from Tomtom. Update May 2. 00. Guess what The nice new Rider II has packed up. I guess another Garmin is the only real fix. The Garmin 2. 72. Tomtom Maps Eastern Europe' title='Tomtom Maps Eastern Europe' />After the Rider the Garmin was a breath of fresh air. It came with loads of car mounting hardware and a few extra pounds added a bike bracket which was fitted to the RAM mount. The Garmin software proved to be much more logical to use than the Rider with fewer buttonscreen taps required to do anything. Multi waypoint route planning was a doodle and I never had a problem with the bracket well I had one, more later. The biggest plus however was the Mapsource PC software which, still today, Tomtom have nothing to compete with. At the time my wife and I were planning a European tour and the whole thing was done in Mapsource, we never opened a paper map. Once our plans were finalised it took about one minute to transfer the route to the Garmin and all that was left was to drive it. Mounting the Garmin. The Garmin was originally fixed to the screen bar with a RAM mount which worked OK but it did vibrate a bit so it was changed to a nice aluminium bracket from Motorrad Concepts which fitted above the clocks. It looked smart, did not vibrate and was easy to see. It did however have two minuses. Firstly the little screw that locked the satnav to the mount was hard to get at and secondly, it was hard to reach over the tank bag on those occasions when I needed to tap the screen on the move. Neither of these minuses would have prompted a change until the satnav came off the bike and bounced down the road on a mountain pass in Italy. It was my fault, I had not tightened the little screw, but I lost faith in the Garmin bracket. As our route took us past the Touratech factory in the Black Forest I dropped in and bought a Touratech bracket. It looks like a bit of mad scaffolding but works. The different design meant the fitting had to be changed and after experimenting with a number of ideas I found that mounting it on a RAM mount on the left handlebar was the best. Its easy to read as it appears just to the left of the speedo, I can reach it without a stretch and it does not vibrate. Perfect. Power Supply. There seems to be a school of thought that requires a satnav to be powered direct from the battery so it can be used when stationary. I keep wondering why. The Rider and new Garmin Zumo have batteries anyway, the 2. I have not experienced a problem with turning on the ignitionengine for the 3. I dont have a live cable floating about when the bike is parked and the satnav removed. Its possible to wire it from the back of the bike power socket but there is a dedicated socket to the left of the headstock hidden by the covering over the wiring loom. Ease it out and plug in there, its conveniently close to the front of the bike so cable runs are easy and its ignition controlled. It is an odd socket but you can get a plug from a BMW dealer or do what I did which was take the plastic cover off the socket, solder over the ends of the satnav. Jam the cover back and cover with insulating tape. I did it as temporary installation two years ago but it now now become permanent. Holiday Route Planning. It started as an experiment to see how good Mapsource was. The laptop was plugged into the plasma TV and my wife and I started playing with route ideas. This developed into making anywhere that looked promising into a waypoint and using Mapsources ability to link waypoints with data we linked each waypoint to a photograph or web site which showed why we wanted to go there. Finally we had a long list of waypoints over eight countries we started perming them together in various ways to see what sort of route we could come up with. Mapsource made it easy to check driving times and distances and define potential night stops. Some possible routes were transferred to Google Earth with one button press so we could look in detail at the terrain and fly the route. This exercise took up many winter evenings and was even better than poring over maps and guide books. When we came up with our definitive route we just plugged the satnav into the laptop and transferred it across. The final thought was why not take the laptop with us. We never seem to stick to a holiday plan so it seemed a good idea but the laptop would not fit in the top box. The solution was a little Philips Freevents laptop with a 1. It proved a great idea, not only were we able to, easily, re plan from hotel rooms and cafes but we could use wi fi hot spots to send emails and check out ideas on the web. We also used it to listen to Radio 2 in the mornings. Garnin Zumo. During a temporary job driving trucks my Garmin 2. I used the Tomtom Rider for a while but it wanted to route me the wrong way on one way streets and often wanted to turn right where it was illegal so the the Garmin had to be replaced with another Garmin. As I could not find another 2. I bought a Zumo 5. There is a lot that I like about the Zumo. The MP3 player is great, as is the hands free phone use.