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Must admit, liking the garmin and being able to put routes in off the computer, but bloody annoying when you don't pick them up on the road and it keeps wanting to backtrack to 'get' them. Can skip and become single route, but then no distance displayed to next way point.
Only real complaint.
If you are just using as a satnav, works great. Nice easy to use, just the way point thing pisses me off.

Got mine very cheap out of aldi, so never got the choice of tomtom.

 

I have both, I was having issues with the TomTom but I am getting used to it now, i was hoping i could use in the car as handsfree, not realising that you can only connect it through a headset not directly to your phone. My old car tomtom reached its last update and they have given me 30% off the new 5200 so i got that at £200. The tomtom rider 400 takes a while to start up. you can add stops, skip the next waypoint in the on screen menu and rearrange the ones you have. It works with my routeapp. I picked mine up with world maps and a car mount for £300, at that price its cheaper than the equivalant garmin, mind you the top Garmin looks good but its near £600. The Garmin I have is a 340lm which does whats needed for sure and has some features that are more friendly to use than the tomtom. I think it comes down to preference but ujnfortunately you can never test ride them unless you have a friend with one

 

Ok here's a question! When out and about and sat drinking a cup of tea you decide to follow a route home you have in My Routes on your mobile version of MyRoute-app on your phone, you select the route and press the export button and the window says navigon and sygic but I want to send it to my rider 400 via mydrive or other.
Can this be done? Obviously I'm out and about on my bike so no access to pc,

 

I had this problem on a route I was following on my garmin. Just by coincidence one of my waypoints was on a road that had been closed for tree work which was annoying. Maybe the more expensive garmin have the option to ignore/cancel next waypoint

 

Before I had the satnav I used my phone. So you could plan a route in MyRoute-app on the pc save it in my routes and it would send it to the MyRoute-app on my phone via the cloud. You could then transfer it to sygic and follow the route on your phone. Just be handy to share the routes to your proper satnav, especially if you wanted to share it with a friend while out riding

 

Was out Sunday, Admittedly off road, but fireroads still show up, I was within 6 yds of a way point, but just wouldn't click it off. Very frustrating. Same was happening last year when on road using the triumph.

 

I too got caught out by a road being closed, really threw a spanner in the works.

You can cancel a waypoint, but it then cancels them all !!! Which is really annoying. The route is no longer a series of waypoints, but just a route. Easy enough to follow, but not sure what happens if you deviate from it.

More time spent playing with it, once weather improves, I think.

 

Sat Nav`s.......mmmmmmmmm.......I have a Garmin 660LM, went to northern Spain with it on my trusty Tiger, got off the ferry in Santandere heading towards Oreo, near Zarautz (not the chocolate biscuits) it took us into Bilbao....round & round we went for 20 minutes until it finally sorted itself out. 10 minutes later we ended up on a single track climbing away from the town but literally ended up down a short driveway & into someones back garden...still the damn thing was showing a road, yeah maybe in 203BC!!!.
However, in its favour we did carry on to do 2,100 miles across Spain,Andorra & France without further a do, so yes they are good but I still don`t trust them 100%

 

I use the car sat nav (Tomtom Sat 25)

It doesn't allow you to plan any route. Maybe in summer I might upgrade it to Tomtom 5100.

 

Strange thing is....all 10 days of the routes were downloaded on the Sat nav. A mixture of RIDE magazine & mcn. As I said, the rest of the 2,090 miles were fine, just a small blip at the start.
If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all....

 

If it's gonna malfunction electrically, it'll happen to me.
I'm so unlucky, I have treats melt in my hand .......you'll only laugh (or maybe not) at this joke if you were a 60's kid

 

Just testing

 

Just a heads up,I've put my old Garmin 340 lm in the for sale section.

http://www.thetriumphforum.co.uk/threads/garmin-340-lm.8748/

 

silly question, is recalc setting on? I think when on this mode it doesn't bring you back onto route you were taking but recalcs the whole route. Maybe try connecting to computer to make sure it's got all the updates and a soft reset.