Mountain Bike Gps Units
what is the best handheld gps to use for hiking and mountain biking?
I currently use a 3 year old Garmin eTrex. It loses signal as soon as I go into the sparsest treecover. Are the newer more expensive units more sensitive so that they find the signal when in the woods?
On holiday last summer I broke my Garmin GPS 76, and had to use my back-up GPS, and old 12 XL.
On getting home I phoned Garmin, and then asked around on the Internet I was advised to get the GPSMAP 60 CSX. This despite the fact that I don’t have enough sight to be able to use the mapping facility on a GPS. One person who is in search and rescue in America, said that since getting the GPSMAP 60 CSX he had never lost the satellites under the densest of tree cover or in the deepest of canyons.
I live in Surrey the most wooded county in England. There is one path where I have never managed to maintain a signal. The path is 15 ft below the level of the ground either side, and surrounded by dense tree cover from trees about 60 ft high. The GPSMAP 60 CSX still gave me 7 satellites even there.
The only place that I have lost a signal, is when I was recording the route of the bus on which I was traveling. The bus stopped at a bus-stop, with a 20 ft high bank of sand, with trees growing right up to the edge on one side with a 10 ft high bank sand, and large building on the other side. I lost the signal while people boarded the bus. The instant we moved off I got the signal back.
If I’m going out walking for the day, I usually put the GPS on the kitchen table and switch it on, as although it takes a bit longer it will happily pick up the signal indoors. For the rest of the day if I have switched it off at a coffee stop, or lunch time it will usually have position on all the satellites that it has previously been monitoring in less than one second.
As you gather I am delighted with it.
You will have to ask on a group such as Garmin_GPSMap_60Cx_60CSx for a suitable mount for a bike.
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