booked on the bluebridge sailing for Sunday morning depart 0230 arrive picton 0600 have a cabin also, need to fine tune map/sort km's & registerOriginally Posted by veldthui
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booked on the bluebridge sailing for Sunday morning depart 0230 arrive picton 0600 have a cabin also, need to fine tune map/sort km's & register
I Used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass
Hardcore Biker
For anyone semi local I am happy to help. My route is as follows:
Day One
1 Wanganui to Makakaho then back to Wanganui,
2 up the Whanganui River Road then to Ohakune and up to Turoa,
3 To the To of the Bruce then to Ngakonui just beyond Taumarunui,
4 Finish for night at Turangi, approx. 520 kms.
Day Two
1 Hawkes bay via Napier Taupo Road,
2 Clean up lots of check points in the bay going as far south as Ormondville including part of Route 52,
3 Back across the Napier Taihape Road and into Mangaone Junction,
4 South to Hutt Valley and Wellington and collecting the 5,000 pointers,
5 To the ferry, on Blue Bridge with a cabin and able to board at 11 pm. Approx 1,126 kms for day
Day Three
1 Picton to Christchurch via Inland route approx. 407 kms.
Total kms should be 2,053.
4 Wheels move the body. 2 Wheels move the soul
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Day 1 is similar to mine & may end up at Turangi also bit would prefer to get to Taihape
Day 2 is mostly km's collecting as I should have collected a fair chunk of points on day 1 before heading for the ferry
Day 3 Picton to christchurch via the coast nothing special
I Used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass
Hardcore Biker
My route has a potential for 75,000 points if I bother to collect them all
4 Wheels move the body. 2 Wheels move the soul
Fair weather rider
Use Basecamp as it is better suited to my Zumo390LM than Mapsource.
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I'm only going for the basic's on my first one Jimbut things could change on the day who knows
Old school here I'm afraidmaps & Uncle Google plus heaps of notes.......
I Used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass
she said she would !!
reviewing my checkpoint value today my loop has the potential for 81,000 points but I have a 5000 check point I may drop on the day if my day turns for the worstgetting the required km's is proving a challange
but so far they had up
I Used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass
she said she would !!
what type of GPS unit would you recommend? looked at a review for a Garmin 660 has everything from what I see, any others to consider? I would rather have something that works well rather than a cheap & nasty unit..... ALSO what headphone's are you using with this? would like to ran Ipod through gps unit as well
I Used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass
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I use the Garmin Zumos, which are motorcycle specific, but cost more than the regular units. Put 100k on a 550, which is still working, but couldn't ignore a great price on a 660 which I currently use. Garmins are my pick as I can use the NZ open source maps which are much better than Garmin ones. Only Garmin compatible.
The Zumo is capable of multiple bluetooth connections, can hold music, plenty of capacity for routes, waypoints and even adventure riding tracks. For long distance rides like this, I use cords as batteries won't last, so I have a Baehr comms unit which everything is cabled into and a single cord to the helmet (which is all wired up with Baehr speakers, mic etc) for multiple inputs. Solid, reliable and waterproof. For shorter stuff, I have another helmet with a Sena SMH10R setup and it's bluetooth between GPS and Helmet.
I split the ride into days, or Grand Challenge stuff was legs, as the GPS didn't seem to like anything over 24 hours riding time.
Hardcore Biker
I use a Tom Tom Rider unit which is about half the price of a Garmin, however on the ST I have adaptor unit that I can plug the charger into.
Also I have to log my way points in manually. I don't bother with have the unit bluetoothed to any headset.
4 Wheels move the body. 2 Wheels move the soul
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how good are these units? Do you get wind/road noise? Is the volume clear on either Ipod or gps feedback? I'm keen on the Baehr unit but how much noise ( wind or whatever ) gets through?
I Used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass
Best Frenemy you could have!
Uh... how good is both units? Or any particular?
Baehr is a bit more old school now, German, high quality, but expensive. Entire setup would probably cost in excess of $3k. Control box (inputs and outputs) alone costs around $1000, depending on how many inputs you want to feed into it. I've seen the odd unit pop up on TradeMe 2nd hand though, for a few hundy. Because it's all wired, sound quality is good, only dependent on interference from the bike. I do have some interference, haven't got around to trying to filter out, but that was basically the only noise. Volume control isn't too easy, you've got the dials on the box (usually under your seat), but you can also control volume via the input source (ie, the GPS should have sound levels). There may be newer features now tho, as my setup was done in 2008. It also has a semi auto noise adjustment, basically, if the ambient noise in the helmet increased, it increased the volume (or if you started singing to the song with a single rider, it also increased the volume - if a pillion was plugged in it cut the sound and you could talk to each other, but never used Baehr with a pillion as it needed a helmet wired up) but it was 2 to 3 steps, not constantly variable. I had CB radio, radar and GPS as inputs. You have a general input (radar, as one way sound), then CB radio as priority, and GPS in high priority, so it basically selected the active source you heard on priority, but you could softly hear the others (bit back to front re radar, but the only way the full functionality was gained). So, as you've probably figured out, it's complex, but it works well when you know what you're doing. For a proper fit out, you'd probably want to contact Challenger Motors, Tony Jericivich (probably screwed that spelling) http://www.challengermotors.co.nz/ down Napier way. He's the main man when it comes to audio fit out, as he's done stuff like ambo bikes etc and also advises others overseas.
Ultimately, I've used the Baehr for several years, had the CB radio for bike to bike, but didn't lure many mates into it. Made sense though. I pulled the CB radio out of the bike a month ago, because I'd used it 3 times in 3+ years. I use the Sena bluetooth setup more often now simply because most others are using it, and being involved in IAM, it's by far the most popular setup (over Scala etc as well). You certainly pick up wind noise, bike noise from the other mic (s) but then that would probably be the same for Baehr from the point of view of receiving sound. Sound control more limited (if you are talking to one or more others, you lose GPS sound because the Sena headset only has so many channels), volume control is easy as it's right there on the helmet. Wireless has it's advantages as I can get off or shut the bike down and continue talking, whereas the Baehr is only live when the ignition is (albeit, I chose that to avoid battery drain). Bluetooth range is more limited than radio frequency and limited to 4 in party talk.
Hardcore Biker
I've had a 660 for a few years and just plug straight into it. I run it from a cigarette socket under the seat, and run the headphone jack to come out from the seat by my left leg. I have an extension lead and just run a pair of $20 Dick Smith earphones via molded ear-plugs (by Kiwi Plugs in Waikanae). I used to just use the earbuds but they work loose, couldn't hear much over 110kph and the long rides were starting to result in tinitus. The molded audio plugs mean I can have the volume set at a good at-rest volume and can hear ok well past 110kph......if I ever went that fast!!?? I have a few hundred songs loaded in the unit.
I also bought an Asus EeePC 10" Notebook which is easy to carry on the bike to programme it. The new tablets operate on windows so they will be OK and that means I can programme a GC route and have it downloaded and checked within 30mins. Way better and easier that trying to programme straight into the unit.
Definitely use the NZ Open Source mapping as the Garmin maps are crap once you get off the main highways.
How a man wins shows much of his character....How he loses shows all of it!!"
Knute Rockne
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Dave did my ear plugs as well awesome kitbut need some new earbuds so off to DS I reckon.....I'll start looking into a GPS unit I think but tell me, if your listening to music via the GPS does it dim the volume or cuts off all together when either a phone call/message or directional change comes up?
I Used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass
Fair weather rider
I use the Garmin 390LM. Used to use a 745T but the rain finally killed it. The unit is wired to a quick release so is easy to take away with you. Does not have any music playing but that's what the iPhone is for. I use a Sena 20S for the headset which has very nice sound with the stock speakers but the FM radio is useless. The Garmin is excellent and water proof so can stand the rain and I also use the NZ Open maps.
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