I would say that it is possible to go down the route of non bike GPS on a bike. But the biggest problem is going to be screen brightness. I'm changing the bike soon and will be looking at an adventure tourer, road or dirt biased I'm not sure of.
The advantage will be that I can mount the screen more vertically and this should help with reflection. Vibration should be Ok if you can keep the mountings isolated with rubber at all points.
The Garmin units seem to be the only devices that have the ability to load third party maps of the rest of the world.
The givi GPS case and the item posted earlier in this thread ( So Easy Rider v3) both look pretty good and should keep the water out of the electrics.
No sure how well the chatter box will perform once the speed gets over 40\50mph I have tried similar in the past and found they were not suitable for extended use.
simon
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