I used a Garmin eTrex Legend for the trip across West & North Africa , the bike mount was the cheapest possible - a couple of velcro strips onto the bike dash ( Harley MT350 ).
The thing stayed in place fine , the only niggle was having to change to batteries - but since a freshly charged pair of AA's lasted all day it wasn't too much hassle.
It would have been nice to download maps of the areas as we needed , but I didn't have time to find them , not even sure they exist for the areas we went to....
Mainly we used the thing for compass bearing and plotting our position on a paper map, so any simple GPS would have been fine.
The screen is nice and big and detailed enough, and you can select BIG DIGITS if you need to use the thing as a speedo ( as I did when the bike one packed up ). Also it's cool to know your total distance, average speed etc...
Ray
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