New GPS

[Mr Rizla]

Greetings,
My GPS is on its last legs and needs replacing, who uses what and how they rate them, my zumo 660 has been great and looking to replace with the newer 595 unless there is something better?

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[Charlesm USR06]

Tomtom 400? - I really like mine.

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[TallGuy - USR11]

I went for Zumo 340LM to replace my Zumo 550 that is getting a bit temperamental. Picked it up for £215 as opposed to the £270 direct from Garmin UK Southampton.

Have found that when loading routes into it you need to make sure that the route does not have more than 26 waypoints in it else the device will split the route up. This may sound like a big issue, but most of the route planning tools will now allow you to change what used to be waypoints into shaping points. You can apparently have about 150 shaping points between each waypoint. So noy you can use waypoints for what they were intended for (i.e. places to stop at on a route) and use shaping points to ensure that you take the road you want to get there.

[bazza1946]

Slightly off topic...but...I bought a second hand TomTom Rider version 1 off ebay a couple of years ago which was ok...did everything I needed it to do although it was a bit dated in features etc.      Last year I marshalled Pedal for Scotland and stopped in a Glasgow hotel for the weekend.   On the Monday morning I left the hotel to ride home to Cheshire.....I clipped the TomTom into its bracket and started off downhill on lane 3 of a one way system....I ran over a bump and the satnav flew off its bracket landing in lane 2 and skidding across the tarmac into lane one.    Fortunately there was not vehicles to my left and all the cars behind saw what was happening and came to a stop. I too stopped, put the Pan on its stand and rather red faced walked across and picked the satnav up...expecting the screen to be cracked at the very least.....shaking it I could not hear anything rattling inside.......reaching the bike, I refitted it to its bracket (this time checking for security) and pressed the button........Unbelievably it kicked into life and took me home, the only sign of its absconding was some slight scratching on the aluminium body..........they made them old tomtoms tough   !!!!

[Julian Barker [Giuliano] USR 10]

The original TT was famous for falling off. They redesigned the mounts etc after that, and gave away free tethers for V1 owners.