Ik las vandaag op een andere V-strom site (
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In a fit of irrationality I passed on the Garmin 276c and went for the Tom Tom Rider. Here is my experience after a week of ownership:
The GPS is appears to be very sold and durable with NO buttons. There is a small door on the bottom which covers the SD card slot,the charger connection, and the usb connection. On the back of the GPS are four contacts which mate with the mount when on the motorcyle. That's it. No other connectors.
What finally got me to buy the Rider was the "all in the box" aspect of it as well as the advertised simplicity of use. More or less true, but when I opened the box I was very surprised at the quantity of plastic bags containing lots of wires and mounting hardware. There are five connections. Two are earphone/microphone, one is a usb to connect the Rider to a computer, and one other is to connect the bluetooth module to the helmet earphone/microphone, plus there is a connection for the motorcycle batter. The battery connection plugs into the GPS mount and does not connect directly to the Rider. The battery end is just wires so some sort of connectors will have to be installed. The mounting hardware contains four different ways to mount the GPS on the motorcycle. Two on the handlebars, one on the mirror mount, and finally one to stick on something. I ended up using none of them and instead ended up using zip ties to attach the mount onto the metal bar on my MP Cycle Designs screen. That worked perfect and the GPS is easy to install or remove from the mount and easy to see without having to look down.
The Rider makes use of bluetooth, which is a short range wireless protocol for devices to communicate with each other. So here's how it works: The Rider comes with a very small module that weighs next to nothing. This connects by wire to some headphones. The GPS transmits spoken commands to the module. The GPS can also connect via bluetooth to a bluetooth capable cell phone and can download saved phone numbers from the cell phone. The Rider uses a touch screen which works well. You choose commands by pressing on buttons. You can choose your phone and then choose a phone number entry (or enter a pone number) then hit a call button and your cell phone will call the number and you can talk on the headset. How well of it this works is very dependent on the type of cell phone you have and your service provider. I have a Motorola V551 phone though Cingular and after I make the call my voice transmission drops out after 5-10 seconds. I am trying to resolve this through Tom Tom but its too early to say anything about that yet. So at the moment it doesn't work for me!
The Rider is a GPS designed primarily to let you choose a destination and then get you there both by showing the turns on the screen and by voice prompts. The screen is very good with options for a different look at night as well as different color combos and brightness which is great. Most of the touch screen options work well even with gloves on with the exception of a couple which I will mention in a minute. For the voice prompts you can choose different voices and even different languages so very versatile. On the bike you hear the prompts using the supplied speaker which is attached via adhesive and velcro inside of you helmet and also has a microphone which I stuck on the inside of my full coverage helmet by my mouth. Some peope complain that the speaker is too thick and doesn't fit in the helmet. I did not have this problem. My problem is that the speaker has very poor sound quality and the max volume is too low so at 60-70 mph(with my quiet MP CD screen no less!) the voice prompts are all but inaudible and useless. Suffice it to say that there will be an increasing number of people waiting for autocomm or others to produce a decent replacement product!!!!
So far my cell phone doesn't totally work and I can't here voice prompts well.
The reception of the GPS for sat signals is really really good. The best I have ever used. There is no external antenna either. A big plus. The Rider comes pre installed with a North American map on the 1 gig sd card. Including Hawaii. So far it seems OK. It also comes with points of interest(poi) which are totally hit or miss. There is a way to add more points of interest but I have not tired that yet. You can also add favorites. This is nice. While riding if you want to add a favorite just tap the screen then tap the add favorite button and its done. You can rename the favorite later. Initially it will be given the name of the road you were on and location. The number of button choices available on the screen is reduced while the motorcycle is moving to distract the rider less. Some hate this. So far I am neutral about it. There is a way to disable this anyway by taping over a contact on the back.
A big problem for me is zooming in and out while riding. The Rider defaults to showing a small area(either in 2d or 3d-your choice) on the screen so you will see the upcoming streets but have no idea where you are in relation to other towns. Zooming out would help. Here is another problem. While riding there are small buttons in the top left and right corners of the gps screen...+ and - to zoom in or out. The buttons are too small and useless for a gloved hand to choose. To make matter worse the GPS automatically zooms back in after a short period of time. Maddening! This is terrible and HAS to be fixed but some new software from Tom Tom.
My next bad surprise is that the Rider does not have a breadcrumbs feature so you can't see where you have been! Also it does not show altitude! I did find a small freeware program that works in the background and actually generates gpx files which is very nice so it is possible to see and download a route after the fact. I'll write more later as I am late for work already. So far the Rider has some nice features and maddening features and lack of some. I am going to keep it but overall I'd have to say that for adventure touring the 276c is probably the better choice-though I have never used a 276c. More later.....one last thing. The Rider connects to a computer via a usb cable and can be backed up to a computer using either a mac or pc which is nice. But there is no computer software to plan routes and transfer them to the Rider.
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Eigen bemerkingen tot zoverre:
Ik sluit me net als @The V en de maker van vorig stuk erbij aan dat de speaker in de helm, m.n. bij telefoneren vanaf 80km echt nix voorstelt. De microfoon schijnt het goed te doen, maar dat helpt weinig als degene die jou iets terug zegt niet te verstaan is. Ik gebruik een Nokia 6310i en alle functies van het bellen doen het uitstekend, inclusief downloaden van je hele telefoonboek naar de TTR.
Het in- en uitzoomen uit de een-na-laatste alinea is voor mij helemaal geen bezwaar trouwens, hoewel ik het in de stad wel handig vind om wat verder vooruit te "kijken". Uitzoomen (meestal ff gauw bij een rood verkeerslicht) is dan onhandig met handschoen aan. En je kunt inderdaad maar even kijken- dan zoomt TTR weer automatisch in.
De montage aan mijn linkerspiegel bevalt me ook niet echt goed. Het schroefdraad van je spiegel kan niet meer zo ver ingedraaid worden als in de originele toestand, zonder de de TTR beugel er tussen in. Dat betekent dat je spiegel bij snelheden vanaf 130km (en zeker met een beetje tegenwind) toch stiekum naar binnen toe gaat draaien. Heeft net te weinig grip. Misschien dat een druppie loctite helpt, maar toch niet echt ideaal.
Wat ik ook minder vind van de spiegelmontage is dat je een afwijkend beeld krijgt als je links draait op een rotonde. Stel je moet driekwart rond om links te gaan. Op de helft van de rotonde lijkt het dan (omdat je stuur naar links staat) dat je 360 graden moet draaien... Lijkt misschien nonsens maar als je 'm achter je ruitje -midden op de motor- monteert zal het beeld m.i. veel neutraler worden weergegeven.
Het stadsrijden is iig een heel stuk leuker en veiliger geworden. Je kan op je schermpje zien dat je nog drie kruisingen rechtdoor moet. Zo kan je eenvoudig voorin tussen de auto's friemelen - iets wat ik op vreemd terrein niet zo snel deed -. Zit dan namelijk toch op naambordjes op hoeken van straten te letten enzovoort. De GPS is echt heel goed. Er is nooit uitval, ook niet tussen hoge gebouwen in combinatie met smalle straten. Ook "ziet" het apparaat haarscherp op je op een parallelweggetje rijdt, zelfs als 'ie maar een meter naast de andere rijstrook ligt..
So far - So good - So long.