Has anyone here fitted a Garmin 340 / 390 to the S10 :question:
Apparently it comes with a "Motorcycle Mount" but this just looks to be a square plastic tray with holes in the back as if you then need to bolt the sat-nav into the tray.
There is no sign of anything used to then connect the "mount" to the bike so I am wondering if you also need to buy a bike specific mount like the ones Touratech and SW Motech sell - but they cost almost as much as the sat-nav :exclaim:
The power cable in the pictures I see also looks like it then needs to be pushed into the sat-nav, I was expecting the "mount" to be a wonderful device that actually fits onto the bike and then you just clip the sat-nav in and it picks up the power from the "mount" - I have seen this setup with the BMW system based on the Garmin units and I know the Tom Tom works in a similar way.
It is looking like buying a "motorcycle" sat nav from Garmin will offer no real benefit over my car sat-nav in a case which I have to plug into the power and audio cables each time I use it, however this has the advantage of costing about 1/2 the cost of the bike units - and if I need more kit to actually fit the 340/390 models with a quick-release systemthe price will be more like 3 times the cost of my current car unit.
Anyone out there actually running one of these?
Apparently it comes with a "Motorcycle Mount" but this just looks to be a square plastic tray with holes in the back as if you then need to bolt the sat-nav into the tray.
There is no sign of anything used to then connect the "mount" to the bike so I am wondering if you also need to buy a bike specific mount like the ones Touratech and SW Motech sell - but they cost almost as much as the sat-nav :exclaim:
The power cable in the pictures I see also looks like it then needs to be pushed into the sat-nav, I was expecting the "mount" to be a wonderful device that actually fits onto the bike and then you just clip the sat-nav in and it picks up the power from the "mount" - I have seen this setup with the BMW system based on the Garmin units and I know the Tom Tom works in a similar way.
It is looking like buying a "motorcycle" sat nav from Garmin will offer no real benefit over my car sat-nav in a case which I have to plug into the power and audio cables each time I use it, however this has the advantage of costing about 1/2 the cost of the bike units - and if I need more kit to actually fit the 340/390 models with a quick-release systemthe price will be more like 3 times the cost of my current car unit.
Anyone out there actually running one of these?