Articles tagged with: Motorcycle
Magellan GPS »
Conveniently mount your Magellan GPS receiver to your motorcycle
This product is designed for Magellan RoadMate 2200T
Mount, Motorcycle Handlebar Mount
Product DescriptionUniversal Motorcycle Mount Compatible with 2200T and CrossoverGPS only.
Magellan Universal Motorcycle Mount
Garmin GPS »
www.Road-Quest.com – this video will provide information on refurbished Garmin GPS units for under $100 and who on eBAY has them. You won’t be disapointed in the GPS.
GPS Mapping Software »
GPS is the new wave of navigating, and motorcycle GPS is no exception. But what exactly is GPS and why would you want it on a motorcycle?
GPS stands for global positioning system. It’s a high tech way of saying that it tell you where you are on the globe, and if you’ve got a motorcycle GPS system it tells you where your motorcycle is.
A GPS, including a motorcycle GPS, works by receiving radio signals from a series of satellites that are positioned in orbit around the globe. By cross referencing these satellite signals your motorcycle GPS unit can work out, to an accuracy of around 6 meters or less, exactly where you are.
In order for your GPS to work you need to be in a location where you can pick up the radio signals from a number of different satellites so that they can be cross referenced. Too few satellites and the accuracy goes down, none, or one, and it’s useless.
Early GPS systems, whilst accurate, had limited usefulness for the motorcyclist or car driver because they gave you your position on the globe in latitude and longitude. Whilst it was accurate, it wasn’t really user friendly, because you couldn’t really use it to plot your position on a map unless you were extremely map savvy and had the resources to do so. However modern motorcycle GPS systems have advanced way beyond this, and the best motorbike GPS units have now become a total motorcycle navigation solution.
The GPS technology has been combined with modern mapping software to eliminate the problem of …
GPS Mapping Software »
Motorcycle GPS overcomes one of the problems of comfortable motorcycle riding. Navigation. It’s not easy navigating if you’re out on a trip on your bike when you don’t know where you’re going.
Of course you carry a map on your bike, everyone needs a map. However it’s sometimes not all that easy to use a map on a good motorcycle ride. How about when it’s raining, for example? You end up sitting on the side of the road looking at a soggy map.
Motorcycle navigation has always been more difficult than navigating a car, when for example, you usually have a passenger who can just tell you when to turn left for right.
When GPS technology, or Global Positioning System technology, became available to the general public it wasn’t totally user friendly, and certainly wasn’t all that useful for a motorcycle rider.
GPS works by using signals from satellites to triangulate your position on the globe. Unfortunately with early versions of GPS that was what you got. Your position on the globe. Useful perhaps for some, but not ideal for good car or motorcycle navigation.
However over the years GPS technology has been combined with modern computer software and mapping software to turn GPS in general, and motorcycle GPS in particular, into a total navigation solution for you or I.
And there are now dedicated motorcycle GPS systems that are specifically designed to be mounted on motorcycle handlebars which offer this motorbike navigation solution at an extremely attractive price. And as it is specifically designed to be used on a motorbike the best motorcycle …
