Garmin tourer GPS devices are rubbish. If you want a GPS device that navigates then this is not the one. Put any ride in that is reasonable in length (say 100kms) it pauses, and the essentially says "No, no no. That is far too far for me to work out, would you put a shorter ride in? Say from here to the corner just ahead of you?"
Another little function it has is if you put a ride in, from say here to B, it ask you first for your current location (as I guess GPS's do not know their current location) and then asks if you would like to go to.... your current location. I suspect I already know the way to my curent location as I am already here. But there we are.
Another delight this gorgeous peice of kit does is after a ride is put in is spend about 20 minutes trying to work out the ride, and then if one gets impatient and starts to ride, it then says "Movement detected!"and then freezes.
Sometimes it likes to give information. Not information like TURN LEFT! or STRAIGHT AHEAD! but a particular favourite of it is to inform me that I am currently "Riding on Trail". Now I am not so sure about the general populous, but I can generally tell that I am riding on a trail by looking down, beyond my front wheel and seeing the surface in front of me.I have yet to be surprised by what I find.
Another little function it has is if you put a ride in, from say here to B, it ask you first for your current location (as I guess GPS's do not know their current location) and then asks if you would like to go to.... your current location. I suspect I already know the way to my curent location as I am already here. But there we are.
Another delight this gorgeous peice of kit does is after a ride is put in is spend about 20 minutes trying to work out the ride, and then if one gets impatient and starts to ride, it then says "Movement detected!"and then freezes.
Sometimes it likes to give information. Not information like TURN LEFT! or STRAIGHT AHEAD! but a particular favourite of it is to inform me that I am currently "Riding on Trail". Now I am not so sure about the general populous, but I can generally tell that I am riding on a trail by looking down, beyond my front wheel and seeing the surface in front of me.I have yet to be surprised by what I find.
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