• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Best GPS value/quality/price/features. Which one do you use and why?

++ on the Garmin 62 series. Mine literally lives on the 511. Its literally spent days out in the rain and has been totally submerged several times...Just can't kill it.
If your intention is to use it for regular navigation the small screen can be a pain but I mostly use it to collect tracks and get me out of an unknown trail on occasion. When the going keeps getting tougher it's nice to have a look and know that there is some sort of road just a few hundred meters away.
 
Chilly White found another great way to mount your gps, regardless of model you choose. Ty and I both use this method. It yields pretty nice flexibility and moves when you go over the bars.

http://www.enduro360.com/2013/12/22/products-tested/flexx-bars-gps-ram-mount/

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Hmm, might have to try that arrangement. I currently have mine setup so the gps (Montana) sits between the cross bars of the Flexx bars.

Not sure if related to mounting location, but the screen died on it a couple months ago (the digitizer cracked at the edge allowing moisture under it). I don't remember landing on it, so who knows.

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More power to you guys who can actually read a GPS on the bars, underway or stopped off the side of the trail. I usually just carry it in a jacket pocket along with some cheaters.
 
Motosportz said:
I dont see how that works at all. I learned a long time ago you cant mount GPS's on the left side because when you compress the front and the front brake like comes up and over and tears it off.
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Mine is a little different than that, I use the 3" ram mount which brings it up and out a little longer and my cables slide under with no binding at all.
 
Easy enough to adjust while mounting it. I heard the concern when I initially installed mine as mine can appear very close. Compressed the forks and noted where the cables went. While the mount rotated forward would give me a better view, it's positioned to not snag and has not in use. If it did, I could rotate 20 degrees either side with this style mount, and avoid completely. The only negative to this mount and where the GPS is... It's too tight to allow a bar pad, since I need to rotate the device on attaching to the bar.

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I'm too cheap. I use a Move Bike to see where I've already been. I look at a map, remember the roads I want to take, and see if I get lucky.
 
Update to my earlier post:

Was rafting last week in Idaho, my Garmin 60csx got splashed and rained on, not dunked, but got water inside and ruined the display. Garmin says they will not repair 60csx's anymore AND they have stopped production of the 62 series handhelds as well. I have ordered a 64S to replace the 60csx.

Based on my understanding - there is not a whole of lot performance differences between the two. The 64 has faster electronics and can access the Russian GPS system, so - it is not supposed to not lose connection in deep canyons as much.

The 64 also has greater internal memory and will recognize a larger SD memory card - to 32 Gig.

Garmin says the key strokes to access memory on the 64 is different than the 60 series, but the same as the 62 series - in terms of learning curve to use them.

Good Luck!
 
If it still has the external antenna option, then I would say it's the same. 5000 way points instead of 2000 is nice. The more satellites it can access, the more accurate it can be. The main plus on that unit is the quad helix antenna, which in my opinion is preferred, especially when moving.
 
You can still get a 62s for $259, that's what both Ty and I use (Ty uses when he steals mine for the weekend).
 
underwatersimon said:
++ on the Garmin 62 series. Mine literally lives on the 511. Its literally spent days out in the rain and has been totally submerged several times...Just can't kill it.
If your intention is to use it for regular navigation the small screen can be a pain but I mostly use it to collect tracks and get me out of an unknown trail on occasion. When the going keeps getting tougher it's nice to have a look and know that there is some sort of road just a few hundred meters away.
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I'm still Ok with my trail tech voyager device but it does have internal memory shortcomings and I'm not 100% sure how waterproof it actually is ... (I just wrap a plastic bag on my bars beside the device and cover it in the rain) so true waterproofing sounds very good to me here as rain comes and goes often per ride here many days ...

Looks a little dated also as compared to the models you guys are using above and may not cross over to other uses like around the block and in cities and such and sort of keeps its off-road motorcycle attitude.. That stock holder does Ok on trails but does not really supply any security ... This model has been around a while now ... Not sure what TT has planned for any new models.

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The biggest thing I miss with my old 60csx is the round pin style power plug which was virtually fail proof. I love my Oregon BUT the mini USB power plug is underwhelming. The mini USB plugs are vulnerable to vibration causing a momentary loss of power which then power cycles the unit. I use lithium throw aways now and gave up on the power plugs. The lithiums give me a good 2 days of constant use which is plenty for my type of use.
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I use rechargeable Li in mine. They work great and easily last all day.

A friend of mine puts his 62 series in a ziplock bag prior to putting it in the cradle to ensure it stays dry.
Although the cradles are pretty good as well, I use a small bungie and tether cord attached to the bike for extra security.
 
I use a Garmin GPSMap 62s. I have some older NiMH rechargeable around, and despite their age I can still get a good 1.5 days worth of riding out of a pair. I just carry a couple extra pairs along in the Camelbak.
 
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