GPS's..

Well, going back to when I asked advice about buying a GPS...the mother
bought one last w/e, a Tom Tom Go 300 for £299, which is a bit of a
bargain. The best thing about it is it so easy to use even she can
manage it (a good thing, considering how good she is at driving...).
The 500 and 700 versions have the capability to scan for speed cameras
automatically (apparently), whereas with the 300 you can download the
info at a price, should you wish to do so.

While we were there, the new compact Garmin was out, being sold for a
mere £169! Sadly, although the sales peeps were there to push the
produce, they 'had none to sell in store, sorry, and I feel daft trying
to sell a product the company can't supply us with to sell on the shop
floor' thing.

The nice small Garmin looks ideal for having in the tankbag, a full
colour screen and lots of info contained on it (although it does still
have the Blundellsands Hotel listed as a Hotel, despite the fact it was
pulled down and turned into flats about 5 years ago - perhaps the
online updates would sort it, but considering it is a new product,
shouldn't the info be up-to-date anyway?).

I've looked at the bike-only Sat Navs and prices, and TBH I don't want
to pay c£500 for something that sits on the 'bars as opposed to one
that can sit comfortably in a tank-bag for £169, especially when my
main reason for buying one is to accurately find my way in a town once
I have arrived there - for instance, finding Edinburgh is easy, but
finding a specific road you need easily within Edinburgh is what I want
the Sat Nav for.

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Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

Scan? nope. You can download the scamera maps into the Tom Toms, the
file is available free on the net.

'Hog

 

<snip>

See here hun......

http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/uksafetycameras.php

HTH

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Robbo
Trophy 1200 1998
BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003/2004/2005
B.O.S.M 2003, 2004, 2005
FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449
PM#7
..

 

<fx: trumpet noise>
<fx: squeal of tyres>

Works well too, I always drive carefully through those accident
blackspots now that I'm pre-warned of them.

 

Wonderful! Thank you.

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Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

The poor man's street finding sat nav requires only the cheapest GPS
and a home PC with broadband connection. Look up the post code,
street, whatever, in Streetmap, which is free. If necessary click the
mouse pointer to correct location arrow. Print the page, fold and
stuff in pocket. Ask Streetmap to convert the co-ords of target
location. Enter them into cheap pocket GPS and click on GOTO. Bungee
unit to top of steering column or tanktop. Make up route as you go by
watching direction arrow and distance. If in doubt consult printed
page.

In many cases the destination access is obvious enough that you can
omit the map printing stage. If a staged route looks necessary,
e.g. to cross a bridge, then you can enter approp intermediate points
and make the sequence a route. If you do that more than occasionally
you probalby want the help of one of the free GPS handling packages
which will let you construct routes in the PC and download them. But
in most cases just always knowing in what direction and how far away
your is destination is all you need to be able to make it up as you go
along.

Suitable GPS units would be the Geko 201 or the new basic yellow
Etrex, both very similar in capabilities and sometimes available on
special offers at well under 100 quid. The eTrex is bigger and tougher
and runs longer on AA batteries, the Geko is more easily pocketed.

 

NP young lady
Oh.....BTW
http://uk.aldi.com/special_buys/productnl_461.html


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Robbo
Trophy 1200 1998
BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003/2004/2005
B.O.S.M 2003, 2004, 2005
FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449
PM#7
..

 

I spotted that this afternoon. Sadly, that f*cking Fiat has managed to
cost me *another* ?200 this month [1], so no spare cash available for
such things until I get my Xmas Bonus. Ho Hum.

[1] There can't be much else can go wrong with the f*cker by now (

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Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

Xmas bonus !!

Sell yer body..................more chance of getting money for that than an
Xmas bonus these days!

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Robbo
Trophy 1200 1998
BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003/2004/2005
B.O.S.M 2003, 2004, 2005
FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449
PM#7
..

 

Luckily for me, I no longer have to consider selling my body in order
to sort the Turkey out, the NHS is well in the past, a Bonus at
Christmas is always forthcoming (apparently) when you work for one of
the top 100 businnesseseseses in the North West.

Plus loads of free F&V than you can shake a stick at, which generally
gets given out to grateful recipients who like that sort of thing.

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Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

I got one a few weeks ago - at that price.

The product is new, the maps are not. Maps are bloody expensive things to
update. Hence they don't do it very often.

The I3 will be _impossible_ to use through a tank bag - everything is
controlled through the roller key - accidently push it and you'll lose your
map.
There is no key lock,. or anything like that. It's great in the car, but I
think it would be a PITA on the bike.

It also (and it even says this in the manual) is not ruggidised in any way -
no waterproof-ness, no anti vibration etc.

This doesn't mean you can't use one - but I don't think it'll be the joy you
think it might be for bike use.

 

Good point(s) there, Dan, ta.

I wouldn't choose 'joy' as a word there, I was thinking more of
economical, considering the other available options (apart from the
Medion that's going to be sold in Aldi shortly) tend to be in the ?500
price range.

Oh well, I don't need one for the bike just yet anyway.

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Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally