Hi all, about time for an update to this thread… in case some of you are wandering what I bought.
Looking at your advice above and from a guy I done an 8day tour with in Morocco I went for the Garmin 60CSx. Used it for a month down Morocco and it is such a great unit once you once you get used to it. It automatically scales the map so for example once I was a few hundred km from Tarifa (south Spain) riding north I could see Tanger (Africa) but it does scale down when there is info you need approaching junctions (bet some one will tell me how to change this now…!). I really like this GPS and it is very rugged! Good for riding trails. Also has a fantastic battery life, it was south Morocco by the time I could fit the 12volt cable.
I got the 60CSx covered in mud, sand and very wet! (the GPS failed during a mental thunder storm over the Tizi-n-Tichka high mountain pass, too much static in the air but with one road to follow I wasn’t getting lost or stopping! Signal came back after a while…). Done about 1200km offroad during some tough sections (without panniers) and the GPS didn’t miss a beat. Also a very nice size.
Cheers for the advice guys!!!!


I might use lots of micro SD cards to store my track, can store 20logs on one card. Also thinking about storing them using my Archos AV400 hard drive. Using this portable hard drive you can download various memory cards to it BUT it will not work for micro SDHC technology, use the older SD card without HC (plus it’s cheaper!).

You can also use the Archos to download photos on the move, play MP3 and movies! Can also interface with TVs (AV I/P & O/P). Another techie bit of info about these if you’re interested? you can easily upgrade the hard drive (AV400 -100GB and AV480 -80GB, these use standard laptop drive compared to AV420, AV440… which is different). I upgraded mine to 120GB a few years back after the hard drive failed, no problem. Was even thinking about upgrading it with a solid state hard drive to stop failures due to vibrations on the bike

, no moving parts then! Reckon this could be done but solid state hard drives are not cheap!
Oh!!!

If you ever buy one DON’T get the Touratech lockable mount!!!

Go for the non-lockable version as it can still be very easily removed. I used a couple of rubber bands made from an old tyre tube to secure it at the top to stop it from un-mounting itself.
Duck
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