Garmin Edge Touring - Route Planning

animal72
animal72 Posts: 251
edited May 2014 in Road general
Help me out here before it goes in a ditch.

No matter what I try, I can't get it to navigate directly from point A to point B. As an example, I've just put in a location 8 miles away with only one change of road needed, and the round-trip route it gives me is just over 100 miles and starts in the opposite direction.

Methinks it'll be going back...
Condor Super Acciaio, Record, Deda, Pacentis.
Curtis 853 Handbuilt MTB, XTR, DT Swiss and lots of Hope.
Genesis Datum Gravel Bike, Pacentis (again).
Genesis Equilibrium Disc, 105 & H-Plus-Son.

Mostly Steel.

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  • wongataa
    wongataa Posts: 1,001
    Plan your routes on your computer and load them onto the device.
  • animal72
    animal72 Posts: 251
    Understood (have used systems on my motorbikes for years) but I'm on holiday and don't have my PC with me :(
    Condor Super Acciaio, Record, Deda, Pacentis.
    Curtis 853 Handbuilt MTB, XTR, DT Swiss and lots of Hope.
    Genesis Datum Gravel Bike, Pacentis (again).
    Genesis Equilibrium Disc, 105 & H-Plus-Son.

    Mostly Steel.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    I got mine on Monday and it's fine planning routes either by typing in a series of villages or just by using the map (scroll, tap a point, click use and repeat. Must be something to do with the routing preferences; maybe it's going out of it's way to find cycle routes? Mine is set to stay on roads I think.

    Must admit I don't find the menus as intuitive as a TomTom, and the manual, when you can find it and persuade the pdf to open, is not well written. Took me 2 days to work out how to get it to display HR on the navigation screen, and now it's there I can't remember how I managed it.

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