Route Log from the bike

So i found sometime tonight to download the route log from the Garmin Zumo from Sunday's ride.

You can load the data back into Garmin's software and then export it to Goggle Maps!

It's great as i can locate some of the off road sections i did and with my newly acquired Ordnance Survey Map of Salisbury Plain i can now see where there a vehicular rights of way!

I feel a new route coming on with more off road sections!

Sunday morning ride!

So decided on a test - a 120mile route over towards ZigZag hill (vote best road in UK via continental tyre customers), over Salisbury plain, back towards Winchester then home. Idea was to see as many B or unclassified roads as possible - thanks to offline planning!

My day pass was stamped and I set off just after doing breakfast duties for the kids.

You know your in trouble, when (a) the bike complains about the weather - those pesky Germans like to remind you how cold it is by flashing various warnings on the dash - the actual temperature is displayed and an annoying flashing snowflake. (b) every time i went into a slight covered area and the temperature dropped the wing mirrors and front screen misted up (ON A BIKE FOR GOD's sake!) Never seen that before. Little unnerving as your blind to the rear, the roads are damp - or was it black ice, not sure!

Good news is that you know the sun's going to rise sooner or later and it will dry out. Also good to test the olde riding skills. Good to say that i kept it upright, got over 120 miles done, and a nice hot mug of tea and a sausage bap at half-time. Good morning's riding!

Now who wants to come around and wash the road salt off the bike? ;-)

Now we know where were going!

So the land rover has built in sat-nav so it was bye bye to the old TomTom and i spent the money on a new SatNav for the motorbike! Ruggerised, can be submersed in water and is impervious to petrol! So this means I'm bound to break it in the first 3 months!

Managed to mount the display inside screen of the bike! Just waiting for some bits from an off road company to wire the unit into the bike battery permanently!

Great features include being able to plan route on PC and upload to garmin unit. also have the ability to upload pre-planned routes or even load the route log into Google Earth! Cool!