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If you get the early ferry, about 4:00 am or something silly, coast road is empty and a blast. Rode it up to NW200 a few years back. Bloody long day, but fantastic.

 

I'm glad to hear this as I was worried that being a track and you went off it TomTom would just replan you on quickest route to destination if there is the option of another route

 

Well after buggering about with various options involving the mobile with some limited success I decided to get a proper dedicated sat nav. Getting audio directions from the phone is OK and will get you there, wherever there is, but I do miss being able to look at the map occasionally to see the road layout ahead.

Yesterday I took delivery of a new TomTom Rider 410. Today's job is to get it mounted on the Bonnie and wired up.

 

@Dougie D - stuck a couple of routes I am proposing to use next monday on a run up to Ellon in Aberdeenshire. Middle bits pass through your neck of the woods, have a wee squint and tell me if they look Ok or if there are better roads nearby ? Cheers

And the best bit, it's for work, get paid for riding my bike, get petrol paid, hotel, evening meal and breakfast all courtesy of you tax payers !!!! have to work for a couple of hours Tuesday mornig, but it's worth it

 

Way to go there Mr O.......
Wessa

 

LOL, staying at the New inn too!!! Not my choice, just what given by the company. Phoned and spoke to them, OK to put bike round the back.
Looking at 300 miles up and 250 back, as I do have a couple of hours work to do on the Tuesday morning.

 

Just got back from a ride.

Is there a way to report a new speed camera?

My TomTom Rider 410 is new and up to date but there is a very shiny looking Truvelo camera on the A61 going into Clay Cross that isn't in the database.

I got a camera warning but it was for an older looking camera on my side of the road for the oncoming traffic. A couple of hundred yards further on there's the new camera on the other side of the road for traffic going my direction but no warning.

I've saved the location on my sat nav and found the option to report it as a map change, a new one way or junction etc. but not as a speed camera.

 

Just done my first long distance ride using only the Sat-Nav with a route drawn up on MyRoute. All went well and the route was surprisingly accurate to what I had planned, even following a couple of mistakes I made, but was happy to reroute straight back onto the route.

Only hiccup was wanting to take me up the east side of Loch Tay for some reason??? But other than that all went well. I actually chose to ignore it at one point, because I knew better, would have been better to follow the sat-nav, but just didn't trust it, silly me!

550 mile round trip, was impressed that it was able to get me there, and exactly on the route planned. Just have to learn to trust it and to be a little more careful on the roads used. Plus a few extra waypoints, to ensure the garmin uses the exact same roads as MyRoute planner used.

 

Hey Mr O 550 miles is a right good ride. How did you break that up, was it in one day or over a couple of days?
Wessa

 

Was over two days, had a full day to get there, so took scenic route, couple of hours work Tuesday and then back down, still managed to string a nice route of 250 miles with minimal motorway.

 

Fantastic and you got paid for the ride, nothing could be better .
Wessa

 

Great stuff, the more waypoints the more accurate but make sure you zoom in and put them in the right place!!

 

Can you use the skip command? My garmin does that until you reach a point, then routes, or just skip, and it draws a full route.

 

Mine does that as well(BMW Nav V)
The easiest way is to delete a waypoint.
If you look at mt routes I always put 2 waypoints close together at the start.Delete one and it will re calculate the route correctly.

 

No good! I drown

 

Mein wifen has dis navigtiondevisen as well,her's don't do this,perfection every time.

 

Sorted that for you mate. New route in the group for you. Newton Stewart to the M74 is an absolute belter, mix of everything except busy or dual. Newton Stewart to Dalry fast and open, dalry to Thornhill tight and twisty, Thornhill to M74 is a must ride road, called Dalveen Pass, think TT mountain section !!!!

Stay off motorway and on towards edinburgh, another belter, once through twisty bit, really quick bit of road. Messy around Edinburgh, but needs must.

Route needs more points and check for closeness to road, just threw it on quickly, but once off A75 until outskirts of Edinburgh, you'll get no traffic and unlikely boys in blue either.

What day you riding up?

 

Thought Knockhill was next month ! What's the weather like this weekend ?

 

No bloody idea pal !!! Which route specifically ?

 

That's cos it is a screenshot of a googlemap, not routeapp