I use my Zumo both here and in Australia. Tracks4Australia is a free mapset for Garmin GPS. I like what Cooneyr is doing here and perhaps a Tracks4NZ might result.
The setting I use for off road is shown on attached pick.
I use my Zumo both here and in Australia. Tracks4Australia is a free mapset for Garmin GPS. I like what Cooneyr is doing here and perhaps a Tracks4NZ might result.
The setting I use for off road is shown on attached pick.
Forget the GPS follow your headlight it goes before you, take that route..
1x Garmin Zumo heading my way courtesy of Trig Instruments in Wellington - and for a steal........$1100 to my doorstep.
Must be the best price on offer in NZ!
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If you fancy taking it for a test run (gps not the bike) flick me a pm![]()
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Hey, I've just won a Tom Tom ONE from Tower Insurance, so that makes it the best one in my books.
Looks really compact, touch screen, bluetooth, and doesn't need a power feed.
Best value around (FOC).............
THAT ... is a good deal if it comes with the NZ map set preinstalled. I got one from the UK for about NZ$820 landed, and then spent $295 locally getting NZ map. I'm very happy with mine, and if I can load in a NZ topo map as well, it will be brilliant! We use it in the car as well.
However, as a much cheaper option, and something that would probably do most of what I want, if I was buying new again, I would be tempted to go with the one that NordieBoy just got off tradme. A Garmin Quest .. i think. It hasn't got bluetooth or some other bells n whistles, but is a very good GPS, and especially for off road use.
I'm sure you will be very happy with your Zumo 550. I think they are great.![]()
Yeah thats $1150 plus GST so comes to over $1300 and then you still have to pay for freight.
Just to fill in some gaps........ Someone had ordered in the unit and then decided they didnt want it, so we got it at a reduced price (had to go) so its a one-off as far as I know. It came as a whole package, wall charger, bike charger, car mounting, bike mounting etc and it is Pre-Loaded with NZ Streetmaps. The best thing - Its NZ new, not a Parallel Product so we have Garmin Warranty and free map updates......
However the price of $1150+GST (& Freight) is still a bloody good price and I would recommend these guys - TRIG INSTRUMENTS gotta remember these are already Pre-loaded with NZ Streetmaps and are NOT Parallel!
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My Quest is working out very well and I've even managed to mount it up semi-professionally.
Waiting for someone to ask what "semi-professionally" means![]()
ha ha ha, ok, gizz a picture of 'semi professional' Nordie.
I just bought a RAM mount for mine. The Legend is suffering shutdown by bad vibrations so I hope the RAM mount will help... that and I just packed a little foam in the battery compartment. RAM mount system isn't very cheap (close to $140 for a complete setup including freight), but it is very versatile and I can see myself getting some extra RAM bits to mount other stuff with it as well as the gps in the future.
Now I have played a bit with the unit I am thinking the map60HCx might be a better buy just for its buttons.... if you can afford the difference when comparing the map60HCx to legend HCx
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Vasaline - smear it on the ends of the battery and along it's length. Damps the vibrations nicely.
I like the way the Quest mounts in landscape rather than the Legends portrait mode.
No obscuring of the speedo etc.
Is all right, I'll survive. The Legend is really all I was prepaired to pay for at this moment anyway.
I see.
I did hear or see something to that effect somewhere, just not sure of the theory behind it.
The Legend can mount like that too... just means every thing looks sideways.![]()
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