• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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?

When navigating by GPS on a dual sport club ride, it is nice to have the light on and on full bright all the time. Wiring to the battery makes this possible. The 4 pin round connecter is more robust.
 
shilo020 said:
When navigating by GPS on a dual sport club ride, it is nice to have the light on and on full bright all the time. Wiring to the battery makes this possible. The 4 pin round connecter is more robust.
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I agree on the round 4 pin. I run my Oregon on full brightness with the lithiums and they last 2 days plus.
 
underwatersimon said:
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.
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Putting the Garmin in a plastic bag before mounting in a ram mount is just a good preventative measure. We had two 60csx units leak in the rain.

Anyone had a 62 or 64 series unit leak in the rain?
 
Been using the satellite view on my 4" diagonal display phone in the woods. Time to pick up my first ever GPS device.

Prefer a large landscape view with Satellite or birds eye imagery

The waypoint features are cool

Are there other must have features I am not aware of?

Been looking at the Montana 600.

Whatya think?
 
My 62 has been totally submerged more times than I care to think about. Once I even got a "man overboard" message... Even still, have never had a problem. Can't kill the thing.

River-Runner said:
Putting the Garmin in a plastic bag before mounting in a ram mount is just a good preventative measure. We had two 60csx units leak in the rain.

Anyone had a 62 or 64 series unit leak in the rain?
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2wheeler said:
Been using the satellite view on my 4" diagonal display phone in the woods. Time to pick up my first ever GPS device.

Prefer a large landscape view with Satellite or birds eye imagery

The waypoint features are cool

Are there other must have features I am not aware of?

Been looking at the Montana 600.

Whatya think?
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I have an Oregon 450. I got it refurbished super cheap. Really nice unit. If I had known at the time that the Montana had a larger screen I would have bought that.
 
Montana on the way. It appears Basecamp is the software used to interface with the device. It contains topo maps. If birdseye is needed it must be loaded by download, sd card, or dvd. I was heard the dvd is best so maps don't get locked in. Still reading. Then there will be the manual. lol
 
Read the montana thread over on advrider. It has tons of great info to gleen. The montana is a powerful device capable of great things.
 
2wheeler said:
Montana on the way. It appears Basecamp is the software used to interface with the device. It contains topo maps. If birdseye is needed it must be loaded by download, sd card, or dvd. I was heard the dvd is best so maps don't get locked in. Still reading. Then there will be the manual. lol
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I like to use mapsorce better than basecamp. EZ USB hookup and transfers. Your going to love that unit.
 
Tinken said:
Does it have an external antenna option? It's internal antenna is limited.
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Like Kelley says -- no problem with the antenna. My Oregon 450 is able to get a GPS lock even when inside my one story house. It's a similar construction to the Montana. I'm actually looking to get a Montana now because my old eyes would do better with the bigger screen.
 
The Montana 600 & 650 have the ext ant. It's not about getting a lock, it's about accuracy. That accuracy gets worse when you move/ moving in a canyon. Units that use chip type antennas must be positioned on a horizontal plane to the sky, any angle back to the viewer limits the ability to receive time pulses. It is possible to boost the signal of these type of antennas, but it's a lot easier if there is an external jack. I use a small 33dB antenna (1000 times more signal) and it makes a huge difference.
 
Been using a Garmin 276C for the past 8 years.. I mount it to my Husqvarna WR250 or Suzuki DRZ250 with a Touratech flat mount.. The Garmin 276c weighs almost one pound and needs a good mount or you could loose it when riding off-road..

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Three years ago bought a Garmin Montana.. Below is the mount I made.. Anti vibration mounts ~ $5.00 for 4.. $3.00 in aluminum.. Few dollars for nuts & bolts.. Total ~ $12.00..

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When single track riding often don't re-look at my gps until the end of the trail.. My heavy duty tether in case it wants to go walkabout..

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I recently sold my Oregon which I liked for it's small size, but I also disliked it for it's small size. In other words, the small form factor was really nice, but the small screen made it hard to get an idea of where nearby roads/trails went without a lot of scrolling.

I picked up a Montana and I have to say the user interface is much better than the Oregon. Plus the screen is much more sensitive which makes tapping the controls so much easier. So far I like it. Will have to figure out how to carry it now. Although I bought the GPS City motorcycle bundle which came with a ram mount, I need to take it with me when fly fishing and hiking.
 
Just picked up a 62Cx from a guy on AVRider. It's got all the goodies plus a really nice Touratech bar mount! Stoked
 
They're ok, used one for a couple of years. I hope you have really good eyes. I couldn't see the small screen at speed. Tried an oregon 550t but had the same issues. Now I use a montana with the rugged mount. Expensive lesson to finally get the right gps for me. If you load gps tracks and are planning to follow them while riding fast offroad, the biggest screen you can afford is the way to go. Lots of 60 and 62 models pop up for sale because of the small screen size. If you just need a gps to occasionally glance at while stopped, it doesn't matter. My 2 cents worth.
 
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