OK, My resourefulness has been working hard on this one. What do I have that I can use to hold the GPS, I was really thinking tank bag type appliction.
So I found one of the zipper pencil bags, like you put in a three ring binder (97 cent at Wal-Mart). Son says, "Daddy I have one of those you can have." Even better. I read the traffic signal thread about the earth magnets in a computer. I took an old computer apart a couple of weeks ago, son and I took out about 95% of the screws, jsut to see what was in there. We found a couple of good magnets in the hard drive. OK, I should be able to do something with this.
I also read earlier maybe the magnets would affect the GPS picking up the radio signals from the satelittes. Only one way to find out.
I folded the pencil bag in half, put one magnet on either side of the GPS and slapped it on the tank and off I go.
I had a bout a 30 mile run to make, with a couple of turns. I knew where I was going, so this seemed like a good test. And here is what I found out.
I could see no problem with the magnets and the GPS, everything was right on, turn by turn. It was a little hard to see the thing there on the tank. It would be better up on the handlebars, but I could look down every so often to check. All I had to do was remember about how far it was to the next turn. It was hard to see in the direct sunlight, when I was shading it with my body, it was alot more visible. I could not hear the instructions at highway speed, even with the volume turned all the way up. The speak is on the back (bottom) side and there were two layers of bag under it, in addition to the normal noise. I did not use the power cord, but I guess I could have and just not zipped the bag tight. I do not think rain would be an issue here, I have a windshield to protect me and the GPS is in a bag.
I did find this on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOTORCYCLE-BIKE-HANDLEBAR-MOUNT-HOLDER-GARMIN-NUVI-GPS_W0...and am considering ordering one of them.
Anyone have any feedback?
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