GPS People!

[twowings]

RoadRunner Magazine is offering GPS downloads of some of their favorite rides...AFAIK, there is no charge for them...enjoy!

https://www.roadrunner.travel/2018/06/01/10-amazing-shamrock-tours-full-articles-with-maps-and-gps-files/

[twowheeladdict]

Thanks.  I have many Roadrunner magazines.  A magazine about rides instead of advertising the latest bike.  I have noticed more bike reviews lately though.  I have done a few of their shamrock tours.  Great for the wife who likes to nest instead of staying in a different place each night.

[oldbike54]

 What's GPS ?

 Dusty

[pressureangle]

Awesome.

Kalispell MT is on my route, a couple weeks out.

[twowheeladdict]

What's GPS ?

 Dusty

It is this device that let's me see the names of upcoming streets long before I get to them so I don't have to slam on the brakes when I am finally able to read the street sign!  That is what I mostly use it for.  Some of us just don't have the eyesight we once had or ever had.

[guzzisteve]

You are supposed to know where you are going. I study the paper before and at stops. Kinda like reading the Sunday funnies.

[oldbike54]

It is this device that let's me see the names of upcoming streets long before I get to them so I don't have to slam on the brakes when I am finally able to read the street sign!  That is what I mostly use it for.  Some of us just don't have the eyesight we once had or ever had.

 So an electronic back seat driver then ?

 Dusty

[twowheeladdict]

You are supposed to know where you are going. I study the paper before and at stops. Kinda like reading the Sunday funnies.

Sometimes it is just fun to go.  In those cases I only use the GPS as a resource. 

Sometimes I will set the GPS on shortest distance and just follow it and it will take me on the one lane roads between the farmers house and his barn that I would have never ridden down on my own.

Sometimes I string together a bunch of waypoints like historic markers and let the GPS route them. 

A GPS is another tool in the arsenal.  You can use it to do what you want to do, or you can just blindly follow it.  The choice is yours.  But I know some people have a hard time learning tech and if maps are for you then enjoy them.  I use maps when I am orienteering.

[twowheeladdict]

So an electronic back seat driver then ?

 Dusty

Well, I don't have a breathing back seat driver Dusty.

You can also download PDF files of the tank bag maps for the routes if you wish.  Do you have the Trophy tankbag with the map pocket?

[Huzo]

What's GPS ?

 Dusty

Going Properly Setup...

[kirkemon]

Thanks Towwings!

Very cool.

[Huzo]

You don't always need one, but fairly handy piece of kit when finding pre booked accomodation 2 hrs after dark in the city centre of Paris in the rain.
Mine wasn't perfect though, I did have to walk about 20 metres to get to my apartment door from the finish point.
Might have to get a new one..!

[Huzo]

You are supposed to know where you are going. I study the paper before and at stops. Kinda like reading the Sunday funnies.

Nup...

[Guzzistajohn]

Oh goodie, the GPS debate again! Pretty sure they were invented by the Russians.

[Darren Williams]

So an electronic back seat driver then ?

 Dusty

I tend to think of it more as a navigator. You know, like that person that sits beside the rally driver with the maps and notes talking him through the upcoming course so he knows what to expect.

I like to use all the available navigation tools I have when traveling in unfamiliar areas, like paper maps, GPS, smart phone, weather apps, sun, wind direction, mountains in the distance, storm fronts approaching...

[egschade]

Use maps in advance or dead reckoning unless there's a specific destination. GPS is also awesome for finding the nearest gas station if you miscalculate.

[dguzzi]

If paper maps had bigger letters or a zoom feature....

[Perazzimx14]

The “here i am” app a lap learning for android or iPhone is great. You can down it then individual states or the entire USA. Once the maps are downloaded you can turn off data usage and have a GPS that uses no data while ru. Ing the app. T x T directions, recalculates and is BT  enables. Phone/cell service is not needed.  Best part is it free.

I used it around Greenbank WV as a test  it was spot on.

[oldbike54]

 Sometimes my humor is too subtle .

 <Goes mumbling out into the back yard>

 Dusty

[Guzzistajohn]

I hardly even use my gPS running to the tavern and back home <shrug>

[Rainrider]

I'm enough of a cheapskate that I'd probably never buy a dedicated GPS. I do, however, use an old decommissioned iPhone 5 with a broken camera, running the Scenic app. Because Apple thinks it's obsolete, I was able to get a Ram mount cradle for it on clearance ($7, I think; funny thing is that clearance cradle also fits my new iPhone SE). Most of the time I just use it to track time and speed data from my commutes, but it also works pretty well as a flashlight, calculator, notebook, etc on the road, and I can run other apps if I'm near wifi.

I am at heart one of those "memorize the route" guys, but a little backup is comforting.

[twowheeladdict]

I am at heart one of those "memorize the route" guys, but a little backup is comforting.

I'm one of those guys that by the time I build my custom route I pretty much have it memorized.  What I like about having my custom routes on the GPS is that I can detour for any number of reasons and the GPS will get me back on my route without me having to stop and reconnoiter. 

[Toecutter]

I painted the tank on my CB750 with matte olive drab paint.... I used to write my directions on the tank in chalk before rides. Works great

Hwy 55: 78 km
right on RR 21: 27 km
left on.... blahblahblah

Next ride, smudge it all off and do it again.

[Rainrider]

I painted the tank on my CB750 with matte olive drab paint.... I used to write my directions on the tank in chalk before rides. Works great

Hwy 55: 78 km
right on RR 21: 27 km
left on.... blahblahblah

Next ride, smudge it all off and do it again.

I've considered using chalk on my matte black V7ii tank (or dry-erase on the windscreen), but always forget to grab a piece when leaving the house.

[oldbike54]

 Just think , if Robert Edison Fulton had possessed a GPS he could have ridden around the world .

 Dusty

[bpreynolds]

What's GPS ?

 Dusty

Don't poke the coffee bear, Dusty!  It's a device that tells you where the nearest Starbucks is. 

[oldbike54]

Don't poke the coffee bear, Dusty!  It's a device that tells you where the nearest Starbucks is.

 Starbucks ? Oh come on Bipper , now you're making stuff up , there is no such place as a ... what did you call it , oh yeah , Starbucks 

 Dusty

[rodekyll]

I've considered using chalk on my matte black V7ii tank (or dry-erase on the windscreen), but always forget to grab a piece when leaving the house.

Amateur.  Grease pen.  Doesn't go away until you want it to.

[twowheeladdict]

Amateur.  Grease pen.  Doesn't go away until you want it to.

Is that what lipstick is?  Met a girl on Daytona beach and she wrote her number on my tank in lipstick.   

[Rainrider]

Amateur.  Grease pen.  Doesn't go away until you want it to.

I was considering filling a fountain pen with plasti-dip, so I could peel it off when done.