Tom Tom Rider?

[Lonewuff]

Anyone using the Tom Tom Rider?

What do you think of it?

I was looking at the Garmin 2720 and the salesman recommended this one, but I had never heard of it.

[grifscoots]

It's not waterproof. Stick to stuff that won't drown!

[Lonewuff]

Grif,

Are you telling me the salesman lied to me? :mad:

He said it was and since it is designed specifically for a scoot I had no reason to doubt him. :( :confused:

[VADIVER]

I have a TomTom 910 for the car. The maps were about 6 or 7 years out of date. Even major new routes were missing. My home address was also not on the maps (street is four years old). They just sent me this week updated maps via snail mail (no option to download or update via Internet). Since my unit was only about six months old, all I had to pay was shipping ($6.00).

My home is now there and the major road is now listed, but today when I was in Northern Virginia, they did not have the update for I395/495 interchange.

I've ordered a Numo because the maps from Garmin are much more accurate. All of the whistles and bells don't mean a thing on a navigation unit if the maps are that far out of date.

From what I've heard, TomTom is great in Europe.

[jwd98056]

Grif,
Are you telling me the salesman lied to me? :mad:

He said it was and since it is designed specifically for a scoot I had no reason to doubt him. :( :confused:

Here is what the Tom Tom Rider specification sheet says:

Water resistant and protected against any wet weather conditions
(test: TomTom RIDER was subjected to a sustained jet of water at high pressure from all directions and suffered no harmful effects)

Here is what a Garmin water resistant unit says in it's specifications:

Water resistant to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:;) (submersible in one meter of water for 30 minutes)

Which one would I feel more comfortable with perched on my handlebars? :think:

[grifscoots]

Beeg difference twixt water resistant and water proof.

[mwnahas]

FYI

the last digit means protection against moisture.

1 Protected against vertically dripping water
2 Protected against dripping water when tilted up to 15°
3 Protected against spraying water @ up to 60° from vertical
4 Protected against splashing water from all directions
5 Protected against water jets
6 Protected against heavy seas & streaming water
7 Protected against effects of short-term immersion
8 Protected against submersion


Water Jets is only IPX5
I'd take IPX7 over 5 any day.
;)