Join us at the Shop on March 13, at 10:30am, for an informative session about planning and creating routes and the use of your GPS on your bike.

Towards the end of the arms race with the Soviets, the ability to quickly take out your opponent's missiles had a profound effect on the balance of power between the US and Russia.

Most of the U.S. nuclear arsenal was at sea on subs.  We had to come up with a way to allow those subs to surface and fix their exact position in a matter of minutes anywhere in the world and take out the Soviet missile sites.

The Department of Defense decided that our military had to have a super precise form of worldwide positioning.  Fortunately they had the $12 Billion that it took to build something really good.

Hello GPS! 

The Global Positioning System is an invention that's changed navigation forever, and for a relatively small investment on your part, to buy a GPS, you can access this $12 Billion satellite navigation system for free.  Using a GPS on your motorcycle will help you have more fun, find out of the way places and roads, and ride more safely.

Many of the GPS units for motorcycles allow you to create a map of your planned route on your computer and download it to your GPS.  This puts the power of your computer at your disposal to plan and create the best route for your motorcycle trip, whether it’s down to the hill country or across the USA.

The Garmin GPS seems to be the most popular GPS for NTHOG members, including me.  Therefore I am most familiar with the Garmin GPS and the Garmin computer based mapping software, called Mapsource. 

The detailed info in this seminar will be particularly pertinent to the use of Garmin units, but if you have another brand, please attend anyway, because you can probably adapt the info to your unit and software.

Many seminar attendees will have a wealth of knowledge from many years of successful motorcycle riding with a GPS and they will be glad to share this info with all of us.  We’ll all learn a few things at this seminar, so don’t be shy, whether you’re new to riding with a GPS or are completely hooked on it already, come out for a fun and informative time.  Bring your GPS and your computer, with Mapsource on it, to be able to try out some new techniques on the spot.

During this Seminar, we’ll discuss and demonstrate:

·         The easiest ways to create routes using Mapsource.

·         Altering routes that are already loaded in your GPS.

·         Finding places ahead on your route, as you’re riding.

·         GPS shortcomings. (Sitting in front of an empty lot when the GPS says you’re at a Harley dealer, or the GPS telling you to make a turn that you didn’t expect or program)

·         Copying waypoints and routes from one trip to another.

·         Anything else that you would like to discuss about the capability and use of a GPS.

Hope to see you at the shop, Saturday, March 13 at 10:30am.

Ron Reiner

972-635-2300

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