Gadget : GPS device on bikes

[speedjpop]

Is anyone here currently using a Zumo 550/660 paired with Head Cardo Scala Q2??

 

Wonder if it really works.......it wld be great if someone is alrdy using this combo and can provide some feedback.

 

Thks in advance!

[fabianpbs]

Hi guys.... Just bought a Garmin 205 preload with malsing map... Other than Garmin website where can i get a Thailiand map? ( New to this GPS stuff )

[ohayo]

  speedjpop said:

Is anyone here currently using a Zumo 550/660 paired with Head Cardo Scala Q2??

 

Wonder if it really works.......it wld be great if someone is alrdy using this combo and can provide some feedback.

 

Thks in advance!

 

Hi, i am using Garmin zumo 500 with Cardo Scala Teamset. Works fabulously well. As it has noise cancellation capability, the headset volume pumps up automatically when the incoming wind is strong. Lower when its not. I am able to use my headset and talk to my wife (pillion) too. She helps to look out for danger and any point of interest. I must say it had help me to focus on my riding entirely. I need not keep looking at the gps for directional instruction as cardo scala is connected to it wirelessly.

 

Go for it, man. You would not regret it.

[dospalmas]

I am just curious. Do we actually need the gps to tell us where to turn? It sounds like we are all on a tight schedule like delivery guys.

 

If I am on a holiday I just switch on my gps for tracking purposes and will most likely only input the hotel as POI. After which I will just wonder around be it in the city or outskirt, part of my sight seeing and when its time to go back to the hotel, i just use the GOTO function and display the large pointer as a general reference on the location of the hotel.

 

In this way I will be sure that I can reach my hotel and at the same keep my eyes on the road to look out for traffic and also more sight seeing. I may make a few more turns but its part and parcel of free and easy touring and u never know what u might encounter during those "lost" moment.

 

Thus to me POI is more important.

 

Which also explain why I kept my GPS 3 plus for so long and only recently I upgrade to eTrex Legend H only.

[Guest ben_ten]

I initially thought of plonking my $ on a 550, but decided against it and rode 1600++km in West Msia without a GPS.

 

I had alot of fun. Thanks to not having a GPS.

[ohayo]

  dospalmas said:

I am just curious. Do we actually need the gps to tell us where to turn? It sounds like we are all on a tight schedule like delivery guys.

 

If I am on a holiday I just switch on my gps for tracking purposes and will most likely only input the hotel as POI. After which I will just wonder around be it in the city or outskirt, part of my sight seeing and when its time to go back to the hotel, i just use the GOTO function and display the large pointer as a general reference on the location of the hotel.

 

In this way I will be sure that I can reach my hotel and at the same keep my eyes on the road to look out for traffic and also more sight seeing. I may make a few more turns but its part and parcel of free and easy touring and u never know what u might encounter during those "lost" moment.

 

Thus to me POI is more important.

 

Which also explain why I kept my GPS 3 plus for so long and only recently I upgrade to eTrex Legend H only.

 

 

Dude, its every individual preferences. While it seems to you that there are people in this world who needed to be told where to turn by a GPS etc. Others see GPS otherwise.

 

Some motorist like to have their vehicles fuel pumped in malaysia every week or even at every possible chance and subjected to unneccessary risk of getting robbed/mugged. Even vehicles break down in foreign land. There are motorist who does not even stepped into malaysia to have their vehicles refuel.

 

Anyway in order for you to go to a specific POI, does GPS 3 plus and 3trex legend H show you where to turn? If it does and you followed. Werent you part of those who had to be told where to turn? True enough, you could have purposely refused to turn and take other direction. But eventually you still need to use your GPS 3 plus and 3trex legend H, isn it? Because you DID USE YOUR GPS TO TRACK A LOCATION

Edited June 24, 2009 by ohayo

[ohayo]

  ben_ten said:

I initially thought of plonking my $ on a 550, but decided against it and rode 1600++km in West Msia without a GPS.

 

I had alot of fun. Thanks to not having a GPS.

 

Good for you. ^_^ another adventurous biker/driver.

 

When you are lost or left stranded with a broken down bike on the middle of A nameless ROAD in a foreign land with your loved one. Thanks to having a GPS. At least it helps to tell people your location.

 

Thats the purposes of GPS. GPS is an equipment that is design to save people life. As a rider/driver, we are responsible for our pillion and other road users safety. Any one can drive a vehicle out into a foreign land and ventured. Whatever we do outside, at the end of the day, family just want to see us back safe and sound. IN ONE PIECE

[Qaihonda]

  ohayo said:

Good for you. ^_^ another adventurous biker/driver.

 

When you are lost or left stranded with a broken down bike on the middle of A nameless ROAD in a foreign land with your loved one. Thanks to having a GPS. At least it helps to tell people your location.

 

Thats the purposes of GPS. GPS is an equipment that is design to save people life. As a rider/driver, we are responsible for our pillion and other road users safety. Any one can drive a vehicle out into a foreign land and ventured. Whatever we do outside, at the end of the day, family just want to see us back safe and sound. IN ONE PIECE

 

 

well said

[Demon]

  ben_ten said:

I initially thought of plonking my $ on a 550, but decided against it and rode 1600++km in West Msia without a GPS.

 

I had alot of fun. Thanks to not having a GPS.

 

From a seafarer's point of view, it's almost a lost skill to able to navigate without GPS but why deny yourself of a wonderful invention which makes your life more certain especially since GPS technology has become so reliable and affordable, even for hobbyists.

 

However, having said that, we must also try to pick up some basic skills in map reading because any technology, no matter how reliable, it can fail.

 

Maps do not have any single point of failure like GPS, such as battery flat, or cannot acquire signals under the heavy forest canopy, so you can entrust your life to a piece of paper but never an electronic gadget.

 

[piggyback1974]

it's just alittle harder that you had to work without a GPS.

[scoobydoo]

  Demon said:

Maps do not have any single point of failure like GPS, such as battery flat, or cannot acquire signals under the heavy forest canopy, so you can entrust your life to a piece of paper but never an electronic gadget.

yup... and its to 100% fool proof coz it may ki siao and lead you to merry go round at some places (e.g.seremban, perling)... routing error? map too congested? i dunno

[dospalmas]

  ohayo said:

Dude, its every individual preferences. While it seems to you that there are people in this world who needed to be told where to turn by a GPS etc. Others see GPS otherwise.

 

Some motorist like to have their vehicles fuel pumped in malaysia every week or even at every possible chance and subjected to unneccessary risk of getting robbed/mugged. Even vehicles break down in foreign land. There are motorist who does not even stepped into malaysia to have their vehicles refuel.

 

Anyway in order for you to go to a specific POI, does GPS 3 plus and 3trex legend H show you where to turn? If it does and you followed. Werent you part of those who had to be told where to turn? True enough, you could have purposely refused to turn and take other direction. But eventually you still need to use your GPS 3 plus and 3trex legend H, isn it? Because you DID USE YOUR GPS TO TRACK A LOCATION

 

I dont follow as per say, just monitor the general direction where I shoudl be heading. I prefer to look at road signs. GPS is just a second confirmation that I am going in the right direction.

[ohayo]

  dospalmas said:

I dont follow as per say, just monitor the general direction where I shoudl be heading. I prefer to look at road signs. GPS is just a second confirmation that I am going in the right direction.

 

Nah, whatever it is. Everyone has the point of view. We can argue and debate till the end of time. Certain fact still stands

 

1. Its a fact you owned, used a GPS.

 

2. If you have trusted your own navigation skill, you do not need to purchase a GPS and upgrade to another one later.

 

3. Since you prefer to at road signs and it seems that you do not need a GPS to tell you so. Why needed a GPS for second confirmation? As stated in your last post,well just turn and go and get lost. If its wrong, turn again and go till you see that sign board.

 

4. Lastly the thread says GPS device on bikes. Why do you come in and start to trash the product that you used?

 

5. Singapore Bike forum is about sharing knowledge. Are you sharing yours constructively? By saying "Do we actually need the gps to tell us where to turn? It sounds like we are all on a tight schedule like delivery guys." That is plain shallow to start knowledge management.

 

 

6. By coming in here and says this not good that not good. You do not provide good reasoning. Look the post by user 'Demon'. He came in and provide the cons and pros of GPS. Why we should use a map instead. That is constructively post.

 

7. Well your point stands if you navigate to the thailand, indo china etc without a GPS. Well then i must salute you and your navigation. Of course you have to prove it.

 

8. Lastly all of us are riders or drivers. We know our capability, strength and weakness. Come on, there is no need to come in and put everyone who uses GPS down. You got what it takes. PROVE IT.

[huairen]

  Demon said:

From a seafarer's point of view, it's almost a lost skill to able to navigate without GPS but why deny yourself of a wonderful invention which makes your life more certain especially since GPS technology has become so reliable and affordable, even for hobbyists.

 

However, having said that, we must also try to pick up some basic skills in map reading because any technology, no matter how reliable, it can fail.

 

Maps do not have any single point of failure like GPS, such as battery flat, or cannot acquire signals under the heavy forest canopy, so you can entrust your life to a piece of paper but never an electronic gadget.

 

 

  ohayo said:

Nah, whatever it is. Everyone has the point of view. We can argue and debate till the end of time. Certain fact still stands

 

1. Its a fact you owned, used a GPS.

 

2. If you have trusted your own navigation skill, you do not need to purchase a GPS and upgrade to another one later.

 

3. Since you prefer to at road signs and it seems that you do not need a GPS to tell you so. Why needed a GPS for second confirmation? As stated in your last post,well just turn and go and get lost. If its wrong, turn again and go till you see that sign board.

 

4. Lastly the thread says GPS device on bikes. Why do you come in and start to trash the product that you used?

 

5. Singapore Bike forum is about sharing knowledge. Are you sharing yours constructively? By saying "Do we actually need the gps to tell us where to turn? It sounds like we are all on a tight schedule like delivery guys." That is plain shallow to start knowledge management.

 

 

6. By coming in here and says this not good that not good. You do not provide good reasoning. Look the post by user 'Demon'. He came in and provide the cons and pros of GPS. Why we should use a map instead. That is constructively post.

 

7. Well your point stands if you navigate to the thailand, indo china etc without a GPS. Well then i must salute you and your navigation. Of course you have to prove it.

 

8. Lastly all of us are riders or drivers. We know our capability, strength and weakness. Come on, there is no need to come in and put everyone who uses GPS down. You got what it takes. PROVE IT.

 

:thumb::thumb:

[Demon]

Go get this :

 

http://www.malfreemaps.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3448

 

[CMYRS]

has anyone had any experience/encounters with ALLBRIGHT inregards to their Garmin?

[ohayo]

  CMYRS said:

has anyone had any experience/encounters with ALLBRIGHT inregards to their Garmin?

 

So far i bought a zumos security mount from them. Their boss patrick is a nice guy. Replied my email quickly. As they do not have the stock in, they promised to bring one for me within 3 weeks. It came on time.

[redname]

hi,

saw tht some of u guys wanna get ram mount stuff.

 

anyone wanna order from gpscity?

[CMYRS]

u can try jk trading to get yr ramount stuff locally.

 

u pay alittle more but u get to actually see and see which product fits yr bike and no hassle on the shipping bit.

[redname]

  CMYRS said:

u can try jk trading to get yr ramount stuff locally.

 

u pay alittle more but u get to actually see and see which product fits yr bike and no hassle on the shipping bit.

 

they dnt carry the product i want althou they suggest one they might fit but i rather get the one i really want

[CMYRS]

  redname said:

they dnt carry the product i want althou they suggest one they might fit but i rather get the one i really want

 

im certain they are able to bring in whatever u require.

 

but check the prices first.

 

if its a rare part, u might be paying a alot more and it might worthwhile to just pay the shipping.

[RaVon]

Guys, I have a extra RAM cradle for eTrex Color series.

http://products.ram-mount.com/rammount/productdetail.aspx?partnumber=RAM-HOL-GA16U

PM me if anyone interested.

[nineh]

  Demon said:

Go get this :

 

http://www.malfreemaps.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3448

 

 

 

can this be used on the 60csx ?

[Demon]

  nineh said:

can this be used on the 60csx ?

 

Yes.

 

i see your name on the list, have you received the unlock code ?

 

[redname]

i've jus received the unlock code and link