GPS while riding - how and which?

**Maximum.Limit** · 5th October 2013, 20:23

I'm completely new rider and just bought my new GN 125.

What is the best way to use a GPS with a voice instructor?
Do you recommend using the handfree with your mobile using Google Maps/Navigator?
OR buying a GPS device and mount it on the bike -don't know how- like TomTom?

If the second solution is the case, can GPS devices use the electrical power system of the Bike (GN) like cars?

Tell me your experience please.

**300weatherby** · 5th October 2013, 21:23

Originally Posted by Maximum.Limit

I'm completely new rider and just bought my new GN 125.

What is the best way to use a GPS with a voice instructor?
Do you recommend using the handfree with your mobile using Google Maps/Navigator?
OR buying a GPS device and mount it on the bike -don't know how- like TomTom?

If the second solution is the case, can GPS devices use the electrical power system of the Bike (GN) like cars?

Tell me your experience please.

You want to mount a GPS and concentrate on it while you ride about?, this is a troll surely!?

**Bumblebeeman1150** · 5th October 2013, 22:39

I have an iPhone with Metroview ($AUD17; or choose a GPS app that covers your territory) that feeds a Sena bluetooth set-up in my helmet. Turn by turn voice instructions as I couldn't read the screen unless I stopped to put on my glasses. The phone is charged using a carcharger socket wired, with fuse, to the battery. Simple, reliable and very convenient. GPS interrupts the music to tell me where to go next.

**Gremlin** · 5th October 2013, 22:48

Originally Posted by Maximum.Limit

Tell me your experience please.

Learn to ride the bike first, there is enough going on with riding a bike before you add gps and more gadgets.

**yod** · 5th October 2013, 23:04

Originally Posted by 300weatherby

You want to mount a GPS and concentrate on it while you ride about?, this is a troll surely!?

I think he wants to mount a GPS and use it like everybody else does, y'know, periodically, y'know, like your speedo, or tacho, or clock, or any other instrument on the dash.

**Tazz** · 5th October 2013, 23:26

Originally Posted by yod

I think he wants to mount a GPS and use it like everybody else does, y'know, periodically, y'know, like your speedo, or tacho, or clock, or any other instrument on the dash.

You mean you can learn to ride a bike AND check such things?!?! Man you must be able to chew gum and walk at the same time too, as well as watch for other traffic, pedestrians, hazards, roaming buffalo, alien invasions etc etc as well =/

Originally Posted by Maximum.Limit

Do you recommend using the handfree with your mobile using Google Maps/Navigator?
OR buying a GPS device and mount it on the bike -don't know how- like TomTom?

What sort of phone do you have man? If my phone was up to it I would use that and follow the voice commands, if it wasn't, I'd have a look at a few GPS's in store and find one that suits you and your budget, or upgrade my phone

Oh and as to the power question, not a bridge I've crossed but I'd be gunning to kill two birds with one stone and have it setup to charge my phone/GPS on longer trips rather than my phone AND GPS.

**george formby** · 5th October 2013, 23:26

I toured Yerp with a Tomtom in the clear plastic pocket of a tank bag. Ciggie lighter connection from the battery to power it & the earphones off me walkman to listen to the nice lady, turn left in 500mtrs..... Did 7000kms no probs.

Ting is, if your a N00b n00b best you just use a map & write down your route. Satnavs are distracting & can tell lies, maps generally neither.

**Akzle** · 6th October 2013, 05:42

what the fucking thread cunt?

i use my phone when i need it (finding someones place in auck town, ie), i've got my headphones in anyway listening to hayley westernra, or maybe some eight foot sativa, and the voice nav turns it down and is all liek "in 400m, turn left"
the only problems i have is that a) "you're exceeding the maximim speed limit, what's your hurry dude" and b) i get warned of turns 1km out, 400m out, just before the turn, and, if it's a roundabout, on the roundabout. thus it only gets used when i needs it, because it'sfucking annoying. c) it seems a bit slow and makes numbers up "in 300m, turn left and you've arrived" - wrong fcking street.!! >< "recalculating" "do a u turn" "turn left" "in 100m, turn left and you've arrived"

gr!

but yeah, as pretty much everyone else has said, learn to motorbicycle first.

**nzspokes** · 6th October 2013, 05:46

Map book.

Just sayin.

Guess im old skool.

**Akzle** · 6th October 2013, 05:51

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**Dobbin** · 7th October 2013, 12:42

I have a mount and power supply on my bike which allows me to use a normal car GPS unit - a Garmin Nuvi in my case. It can take anything up to a screen size of 4.3 inches. The GPS is enclosed in a weatherproof container made by GIVI , and I just remove it from the bike when I'm not riding to stop it getting pinched. Bought from Coleman's Suzuki at the time I bought my bike.

I have to say it isn't very easy to use with the GPS in the container, as the touch screen is no longer very sensitive. I usually set up my destination before putting the GPS in the container. It also isn't easy to see - I have to take my eyes off the road to look at it and the display isn't bright enough in direct sunlight. Also, the voice is not audible so I leave it on mute. Overall, I wouldn't bother to get one again.