gps?

[Jeff Saline]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:02:20 -0700 "David C." writes:

> Well, it looks like I waited too long and Garmin has discontinued the > GPS > V. OK, I'm looking for a recommendation. Criteria- relatively > simple, > totally bulletproof, motorcycle friendly, AA batteries, under $250 > or so. I > don't care about color screens or voice prompts. > > If anyone knows of anyone selling GPS V NOS, I'm all ears. > > Thanks > Dave C

<><><><><> <><><><><> Dave, I don't know of a GPS that meets your specifications. Steve used a V on De Tour this summer and had a few issues with it. I had the same routes loaded in my 76CSx and my unit worked flawlessly the entire trip. One thing I didn't like about the V (other than it didn't work most of the time) was it doesn't have batteries so has to stay with the bike. I was able to take my 76CSx away from the bike and work on logs, saving tracks etc. When he used it last year on our trip it was great. Maybe a call to the Garmin tech line would be helpful. I talked with them maybe 5 times before I bought my 76CSx. They were very helpful and passed a few secret tricks to help me get the most out of the unit. I gave them a few scenarios and they provided input on how they thought the unit would preform. I took a nice ride this afternoon with 3 local KLR riders. Again my GPS worked great and I was able to save the track as I begin getting a library of excellent rides. Temps were in the high 60s and low 70s. It was a bit dusty on most of the tracks but we still had a great time. Good luck with your search for a GPS. Jeff Jeff Saline ABC # 4412 South Dakota Airmarshal Airheads Beemer Club www.airheads.org The Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota 75 R90/6, 03 KLR650, 79 R100RT

[Steve Rankin]

12. Re: GPS? NKLR Posted by: "Jeff Saline" salinej1@... jeffsaline Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:57 pm (PST) On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:02:20 -0700 "David C." writes:

> Well, it looks like I waited too long and Garmin has discontinued the > GPS > V. OK, I'm looking for a recommendation. Criteria- relatively > simple, > totally bulletproof, motorcycle friendly, AA batteries, under $250 > or so. I > don't care about color screens or voice prompts. > > If anyone knows of anyone selling GPS V NOS, I'm all ears. > > Thanks > Dave C

<><><><><> <><><><><> Dave, I don't know of a GPS that meets your specifications. Steve used a V on De Tour this summer and had a few issues with it. I had the same routes loaded in my 76CSx and my unit worked flawlessly the entire trip. One thing I didn't like about the V (other than it didn't work most of the time) was it doesn't have batteries so has to stay with the bike. I was able to take my 76CSx away from the bike and work on logs, saving tracks etc. When he used it last year on our trip it was great. Maybe a call to the Garmin tech line would be helpful. I talked with them maybe 5 times before I bought my 76CSx. They were very helpful and passed a few secret tricks to help me get the most out of the unit. I gave them a few scenarios and they provided input on how they thought the unit would preform. I took a nice ride this afternoon with 3 local KLR riders. Again my GPS worked great and I was able to save the track as I begin getting a library of excellent rides. Temps were in the high 60s and low 70s. It was a bit dusty on most of the tracks but we still had a great time. Good luck with your search for a GPS. Jeff Jeff Saline ABC # 4412 South Dakota Airmarshal Airheads Beemer Club www.airheads.org The Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota 75 R90/6, 03 KLR650, 79 R100RT Jeff, Just a small correction--The Garmin V is portable and uses 4 AA batteries. I never never had occasion to dismount it from the bike since I preferred to let you run your batteries down. Dave, There are some new V's available on ebay. Just do a search on their homepage. If I were going to buy a new gps I would go with the 76csx like Jeff uses. He research is thorough. My V does everything I need so I will stick with it till I hammer it to pieces. Steve

[yovern@juno.com]

The GPS V does indeed run on batteries, 4AA's. Totally portable and rain proof. Actually, they say it's waterproof, can be submerged at x depth for x minutes, but rain proof is good enough for me. When I get home from using it on the bike or in the kayak, I put it in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, a shot of your favorite dish soap and give it a bath. And while it is true that it will shut down when running on batteries due to vibration, there is a simple fix involving tape and some dielectric grease. If you want to go a step further, you can have it "hardened" by having silicone applied to the innards. Have fun & Ride safe, Anthony D16 '83 R100RS '03 GL1800A GPS V Dave, I don't know of a GPS that meets your specifications. Steve used a V on De Tour this summer and had a few issues with it. I had the same routes loaded in my 76CSx and my unit worked flawlessly the entire trip. One thing I didn't like about the V (other than it didn't work most of the time) was it doesn't have batteries so has to stay with the bike. I was able to take my 76CSx away from the bike and work on logs, saving tracks etc. When he used it last year on our trip it was great. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[ggranger]

-----Original Message----- From: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of yovern@... Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:30 AM To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: GPS? NKLR I have two GPS V's and have found that the battery's will work on everything but my Aprilia (I usually have the batteries in for convenience of programming with laptop). I shakes the batteries enongh to make them bulge in the middle and then i can't get then out. I use a hard wires system for power. I have abused them to no end, my buzzy bandit, my jackhammer Aprilia, my tumping KLR and 4 wheelers and even in my boat and truck. I have never had a failure. They seem to be a tough unit. I use the RAM mounts and now have hard wired kits on everything. Bad things about GPS V is the low memory, I can easily outdrive the 19 megs of memory in a day. Also the maps are 5 years old....I find a lot of roads are different then what is programmed into the unit, because of roads that were moved or new traffic patterns. It's right 99/100 times though. I got one for $100 on ebay because it did not come with software...I just registered the second unit to my account with Garmin and it uses my existing software. The other was $220 on eBay, 3 years ago and was new with a 4 year warranty from BestBuy, guy got it for a fathers day gift and never used it. Hard wire kits are at http://www.cycoactive.com/gps/gps_hardwire.html I can't see upgrading until one of my units quit. Gary The GPS V does indeed run on batteries, 4AA's. Totally portable and rain proof. Actually, they say it's waterproof, can be submerged at x depth for x minutes, but rain proof is good enough for me. When I get home from using it on the bike or in the kayak, I put it in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, a shot of your favorite dish soap and give it a bath. And while it is true that it will shut down when running on batteries due to vibration, there is a simple fix involving tape and some dielectric grease. If you want to go a step further, you can have it "hardened" by having silicone applied to the innards. Have fun & Ride safe, Anthony D16 '83 R100RS '03 GL1800A GPS V Dave, I don't know of a GPS that meets your specifications. Steve used a V on De Tour this summer and had a few issues with it. I had the same routes loaded in my 76CSx and my unit worked flawlessly the entire trip. One thing I didn't like about the V (other than it didn't work most of the time) was it doesn't have batteries so has to stay with the bike. I was able to take my 76CSx away from the bike and work on logs, saving tracks etc. When he used it last year on our trip it was great. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[E.L. Green]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, yovern@... wrote:

> > The GPS V does indeed run on batteries, 4AA's. Totally portable and rain > proof. > while it is true that it will shut down when running on batteries due to > vibration, there is a simple fix involving tape and some dielectric > grease.

Note that the 60CSx and 76CSx (same GPS, different case and packaging and different-size microchip packaged with them) will also eventually become prone to shut down when running on batteries unless you apply dielectric grease to the electrodes and battery nipples. However, they appear to have some sort of capacitor inside that will allow them to tolerate the momentary disruption as long as power is restored within a half second or so. Garmin is supposedly releasing a GPS aimed specifically at motorcyclists, e.g., the buttons are on the left of the screen (for access with the left hand) rather than on the right of the screen and it has a larger screen than the 60/76 and has a Bluetooth transmitter for talking to Bluetooth-enabled headphones for its spoken directions. If I had a Goldwing, it'd be a deal. On a KLR, I'll just cope with the 60CSx's smaller screen in exchange for its greater ruggedness. -E

[Robert Chay]

I'm using a 2610 on my KLR and it works great. I used it on some tight single tracks and rocky hil climbs (yeah, not the best bike for the job but I didn't dump the KLR) and the Ram Mount worked flawlessly. The 2610 never complained about the vibrations and whoop-dee-dos I subjected it to. There's plenty of room for the 2610 on the KLR. I have a Magellan Explorist 600 too that I use on my R6. The 2610 doesn't work well on the R6 b/c it's too big. -Bobby

> -----Original Message----- > From: E.L. Green > > I'm using the Garmin 60Csx, but my criteria were slightly > different from yours. It is relatively simple, bulletproof, > and uses AA batteries, but is not all that > motorcycle-friendly due to the fact that it has a fairly > small screen and small buttons that can make it difficult to > zoom around when wearing gloves and trying to figure out > where you are (while pulled over to the side of a road, folks!). > However, I wanted a GPS that could also be used once I > stopped, and which accepted standard programmable microchips > rather than proprietary ones. The 60CSx is relatively bulky > but still small enough to use while hiking (it comes with a > belt clip for such), while being big enough that the screen > is easily visible while riding (unlike, say, the eTrex). Plus > unlike earlier versions of the 60, it actually routes -- > assuming you have maps on the thing, just pull off to the > side of the road, zoom out, cursor over where you want to go, > zoom in, put the cursor where you want to go and do a 'goto' > with the menu button, and voila! Miss a turn and it'll > re-route you (and if you don't like the route, simply go > along the route you want to follow and it'll recalculate > again to give you directions along that route). > > Only thing I'd wish would be for a bigger screen. But this is > a KLR, not a Goldwing, so there really isn't the real estate > behind my Slipstreamer CF30 for anything bigger anyhow... > > _E >