TomTom Rider 2 or Garmin Zumo 550?
I have had both, the Garmin is better quality, but the TT has a better user interface. Also, you get a scala BT headset on the TT, you dont on the garmin.
I'm happy enough with my Zumo 550, aside from the fact it keeps dropping the bluetooth connection to my headset and won't pair properly with my Nokia E75. However, from what I've heard the bluetooth on the TomTom is just as flakey. Some people prefer the TomTom's interface, but I dont have a problem with mine after using TomTom on my Acer N35.
I'm expecting this thread to turn up a mishmash of opinions, so the fact the Rider is a hundred notes cheaper than the Zumo may swing it.
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Well, instead of a Scala Rider headset you get a car mount for the Garmin, so the price kinda evens out.
No, but I have a new-found fascination with the architecture of industrial areas and residential cul-de-sacs of western Europe and if last weekend was anything to go by a satnav is the best way to see as many of them as possible. Serious answer, maps are great for getting from place to place but satnavs make a huge difference over the last couple of miles trying to find a specific building.
The only time I lost bluetooth on my rider 2 was when I walked out of range, like, say paying for petrol. And it's easy enough to re-establish a connection, just press the bit of the screen that brings up the volume control and it reconnects automatically.
This little minnow spent about an hour in the back of a car on Saturday using Google Maps on his phone to navigate the driver to a supermarket since the satnav built into the car seemed to think that the route to every conceivable destination was "turn right in 300 metres. You have reached your destination".
Neither. Just get a standard car unit (Navigons are pretty good, as they have a 'bike' routing mode) - and bung it in one of the little Givi sat-nav bags which strap to the bars / yoke.
Ah! I had this. It took me a while to cotton on that the phone was asking me to "authorise" the blootoof connection. It just kept bing-bonging every 20 seconds or so. Is this the same prob? -- Greybeard FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy 2!) Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home! ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
Tom Tom but don't believe what it tells you when the road signs say different. I like the Tom Tom and (if I could be arsed to use it) the fact that you get the blue tooth crap as part of the package makes it a better deal. Forget the after sales service bollocks because it's just a disposable item and if it goes tits up after a couple of years simply work out the cost per day you've used it. I've got a Garmin something or other that I use for work and it's just not as good as a similar priced Tom Tom but that's purely a matter of choice. You can buy a normal Tom Tom car sat nav and shove it into the map pocket of your tankbag and it works fine, Adie's got my old one and once we'd connected a cigarette lighter socket to her R1 it was job done with the additional bonus of being able to let others charge their phones at Chimay.
