Which GPS?

The Northern Monkey
The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
edited August 2009 in MTB buying advice
Well its my Birthday in under a month, so the parents have started asking me what I would like... I mentions a GPS unit a while back and my Dad wondered if I wanted some money towards one.

So which model would people recommend?

I'm not bothered about HR/Cadence, but I do want proper OS maps + good GPS signal capability.
Need to be able to track routes and upload/download onto websites.

Ben
Santa Cruz Butcher

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  • bob5500
    bob5500 Posts: 11
    try the garmin etrax vista
  • pte1643
    pte1643 Posts: 518
    bob5500 wrote:
    try the garmin etrax vista

    I have a Vista.

    Doesn't display OS mapping.
  • Tel39
    Tel39 Posts: 243
    Satmap Active 10 ?? The only GPS with full OS mapping I think (dont quote me on that though)

    Might be worth a look
    Vis Unita Fortior
  • Kafkaesque
    Kafkaesque Posts: 45
    Recently bought a Oregon 200 through one of the Amazon resellers for £168.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Oregon-2 ... 428&sr=8-1

    I'm very happy with it, large hi-res screen, keeps signal lock under reasonable tree cover, and the free OSM mapping from Talkytoaster works a treat. I can't really be bothered paying almost the same price again for mapping from Garmin. (though I did send a little donation talkytoaster's way)

    http://sites.google.com/site/talkytoasteruk/

    Also love bikehike.co.uk for planning/uploading routes, great to have the OS map and compare it to the Google maps Sat image. And the Garmin syncs with the site automatically.

    Overall a brilliant bit of kit if what you want is a exploration/mapping GPS rather than a training tool.

    Here's a route I rode last weekend which I uploaded to bikehike:

    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=14879

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