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  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    mididoctors wrote:
    amaferanga wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    how has it lasted reliability wise...

    interested in the map functions for foreign travel. How useful and easy it to use?

    is it distracting.. on a tour is the charger a pain? has anyone used one for a long brisk "credit card" style European tour?

    not interested in "I've had one for 3months and it's great so far" type reviews

    warts and all please

    cheers in advance

    If navigation is your reason for buying and you're concerned about battery life then you might want to consider an Etrex Legend HCx or Vista HCx. They use the same maps as the 605 and 705, have dedicated (and robust) mounts and run on standard AA's. There're no training functions though, but they are a bit cheaper. I used one to navigate my credit-card style LEJOG. I get >15 hours per set of batteries (rechargeables or Duracells) and obviously you can carry spares.

    your speaking my lingo here

    they have a bike mount?

    Yep, but you have to buy it separately. Costs about a tenner.
    More problems but still living....
  • Buckled_Rims
    Buckled_Rims Posts: 1,648
    amaferanga wrote:
    pickled wrote:
    I've just started looking at one of these.
    Are you guys saying you need to spend 60 quid on maps as well as forking out 360 odd quid for the device itself?

    If so I think I might get the new Edge 500 instead.

    Garmin maps are ahem widely available.

    You can go legit with SMC contours and Openstreet mapping being merged by this chap:

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

    Both are free/opensource type stuff and many prefer this rather the Garmin Topo.

    The 605 and 705 have a routing option available. It's really very simple to install, just create a GARMIN folder and plonk the image file into it.
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  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,218
    must stop reading this thread............

    Now if the insurance company pay out on my bike, that will leave me with.............. no must back away now:)

    So, what about on & off road maps......? Are they the same, or do you need two different versions?
  • DubaiNeil
    DubaiNeil Posts: 246
    If navigation is your reason for buying and you're concerned about battery life then you might want to consider an Etrex Legend HCx or Vista HCx. They use the same maps as the 605 and 705, have dedicated (and robust) mounts and run on standard AA's. There're no training functions though, but they are a bit cheaper. I used one to navigate my credit-card style LEJOG. I get >15 hours per set of batteries (rechargeables or Duracells) and obviously you can carry spares.
    your speaking my lingo here

    they have a bike mount?

    But you still have to buy (or "acquire";) ) the Garmin maps for the Etrex and Vista...
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,915
    cheers for the contributions to this thread

    actually useful
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • pickled
    pickled Posts: 439
    Yeah, thanks a lot guys. This thread cost me nearly 300 quid...

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