Bike Satnav
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AJAX50

Original Poster:

418 posts

264 months

Friday 2nd October 2009
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Any suggestions as to which is the best satnav for using on a road bike, for both commuing in London and 100 milers out of town.

mikee boy

967 posts

275 months

Friday 2nd October 2009
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Either a normal car satnav or something like a Garmin Egde. The Edge 605 and 705 have fairly decent mapping and directions and you can programme them with routes. I have a 605 with UK mapping and I think it's great.

Sicob

478 posts

252 months

Tuesday 8th December 2009
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I use a Edge 305, but this is more for data logging, you'll need a 605 + to have a useful map on it to navigate though. great tools though!

zebedee

4,593 posts

302 months

Tuesday 8th December 2009
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205 for me, think the only difference to the 305 is it has a heart rate monitor and barometric altimeter as opposed to GPS one.

As others have said, fine if you can plot your route on a PC beforehand, but no live mapping or option to change where you are going. That said a mate has a live mapping one and there is too much info - on a 205/305 you are following a simple black line, hard to go wrong, with his he kept getting confused and we kept turning around at every junction as it was too hard to read at speed. Might just be him being a numpty but worth bearing in mind.

Cloud 9

198 posts

271 months

Thursday 10th December 2009
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Saw a good one at the bike show last year www.satmap.com