I agree with kelly that if you like to explore and you live in a place like NJ where the roads are jumbled, planning a route beforehand and following it on your garmin is very agreable. You can do a lot more looking around and a lot less thinking about your direction, and the future turns you need to make to get back home. If you lay out a route beforehand and you know the distance and the vertical fett climbing, you can give your wife a good estimate of what time you'll get home.
However, I think the garmin with the maps is even nicer. I find it's a kind of reinforcement learning for what roads are ok and what roads are genuinely lovely cycling roads. In NJ, the nicest cycling roads are off the beaten path and easily missed. Finding the nice roads makes riding more fun. ...Roy On Feb 15, 1:03 pm, Kelly Sleeper <tkslee...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like having my garmin with a course file loaded.. 305. I don't need maps > the black line showing where I started or a route in deviate from and get > back to is wonderful. On tour I hate trying to keep it charged up. > > You can set it up as elevation and compass ignoring speed / distance which > shows up when I plug into computer. Around town it doesn't leave the house. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:53 AM, cm <chrispmur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I am a sometimes-computer user. I dont really have an issue with not > > knowing the speed but not knowing the distance is tough for me. I > > usually go to mapmyride.com to get the distance. > > > I am going to try to mount the computer to the seatpost but havent > > yet-- then I would have all the info after the ride but none of the > > distraction during the ride. Anyone tried this? Curious if wireless or > > cable would be the way to go. Could you use the back wheel? > > > Cheers! > > cm > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
