CCR rides in mapsource

[tmgs]

Ok I spoke with admin and will post some rides and easy ways to get around the heavy traffic to the mountains and other other places as well if anyone form the area wants to add to them let me know we can put them together for all to use.

My conversion programs to take them other other formats (like ms S&T's) is on my laptop which died so all I can do for now is do them in mapsource files. but if anyone does not have a garmin GPS I can try to print them out in txt format.

maybe it is a good idea to keep them all in this thread so folks can find them easily

I would like to remind all that there are many twisty roads up here, some are misleading. please be carefull. I see many bike accidents up here.

Also mapsource may say it takes a hour to go from point a to point b, don't count on it! it is alway's wrong. it will take you longer in most cases. I say this so someone doesn't leave the hotel in hopes to get back by at a certain time and you are counting on the mapsource to be accurate for times alloted for the trip.

Tom

[tmgs]

This is a taste of what you will be getting when I am done with the routes.

Please take your GPS off auto recalculate for these routes
while you are here.

Why you ask? well because some of the roads are not correct with the maps they may be off by enough to make your GPS auto recalculate, and when it does that it will change the routes I have made and send you the shortest or fastest way , which is WRONG! Trust me on this up here, I've learned the hard way up here<g>
You do not want to end up cutting through G-ville or 53 traffic will be a PITA.

The routes getting you away from CCR to the mountains may seem like they are far out of the way, but they are not, only a few miles - in fact the route i have set to go to Amicalola Falls is only 7 miles further than the route Garmin will give you, but it is taking you through some fantastic roads instead. and will be faster than any other way as a rule.

Now lets see if I can attach the file <g> ok that didn't work invalid file extension
hmmmmmmmm

For now go here you should be able to save it to yoiur PC or open it please someone let me know if it works

http://www.bikershut.net/trips/CCR2006_rides.gdb


I will eventually include a txt file something like this

TWO Two Wheels only Motorcycle Resort- Good food - serves
Thursday during peak season Dinner
Friday night dinner
Satuday B-fast, lunch and dinner
Sunday b-fast and lunch

Turners Corner - wednesday through sunday lunch and dinner

Corkscrew cafe - best food in Dahlonega a fine Bistro Lunch and dinner

Cabbage Patch Baby Land for those that may want to get something for the daughter or grand daughter

Amicalola Falls - a fantastic waterfall, you can hike form the bottom to top it has steep stairs most of the way
This also is where the Appalcian trail starts all the way to maine if your so inclinded to take a real hike <grin>

there are a few places you can pull over along these routes and take a short hike on the AT for some great views, HWY 60 on the way up to TWO, hwy 129 at the top of Blood mountains

There are gold mines to explore in and or around Dahlonega http://www.dahlonega.org/


give me time and we will get some places for everyone

I will also include in a seperate file ways to get to the lodge from different directions

Let me also add this file will be updated with many more places and will replace the current file

Tom

[DaFlake]

Tom,

Thanks! Looks like some MAJOR twisties. Will you be adding places to eat / see waypoints?

Ramon

[BillyOmaha]

Now lets see if I can attach the file <g> ok that didn't work invalid file extension
hmmmmmmmm

For now go here you should be able to save it to yoiur PC or open it please someone let me know if it works

http://www.bikershut.net/trips/CCR2006_rides.gdb


Howdy Tom,

Downloaded easily and works great! The routes look very good, thanks for putting that together. I have tried to post routes (.gdb extensions) and haven't not been able to do so.

Thanks again for putting those routes together.

.

[tmgs]

Howdy Tom,

Downloaded easily and works great! The routes look very good, thanks for putting that together. I have tried to post routes (.gdb extensions) and haven't not been able to do so.

Thanks again for putting those routes together.

.


Thanks! that is not the completed list, there will be "more" <grin>

I will update it soon and put a txt file up with some more information

[tmgs]

Tom,

Thanks! Looks like some MAJOR twisties. Will you be adding places to eat / see waypoints?

Ramon

yes I will with a txt file there are a ton of roads. there are some major twisties and I will try to let ya know which are easier as well. we some great switchbacks all around GA NC SC TN, I will be adding more to it. I hope it will give everyone a place to go, those are the basics, hope eveyone enjoys them. We do.

[Steve_R]

Tom, Make sure you Waypoint "Two Wheels Only" if you send them up GA-60 and "Turners Corner" at the junction of US-19 and US-129. Two Wheels Only, TWO as we call it, has double expresso double chocolate brownies that are a real killa'. My favorite menu item at Turners Corners is the fried trout sandwich. Then there is the Tiger burger at the Tiger Mart in Tiger, GA. This making me hongrie.

Later. ;)

[tmgs]

Tom, Make sure you Waypoint "Two Wheels Only" if you send them up GA-60 and "Turners Corner" at the junction of US-19 and US-129. Two Wheels Only, TWO as we call it, has double expresso double chocolate brownies that are a real killa'. My favorite menu item at Turners Corners is the fried trout sandwich. Then there is the Tiger burger at the Tiger Mart in Tiger, GA. This making me hongrie.

Later. ;)

It's there, tiger will be there as well as many others when I'm done, it may be next week sometime before it gets updated too much more, but by June <g> there will be more info than anyyone can ever handle in a week <grin>
I will break them up some with explanations

[BlackWing18]

I'm sure someone out there is able to answere my question, even if it isn't the answere I'm hoping for....

I downloaded the MapSource routes that were posted earlier in this thread but when I try to load them my new 376 with City Select V7 says 'maps out of date' or something to that effect. I have been working around this with some of my own older routes that I created for our local rides using V6 by 're-calculating' which then uses the V7 now on my PC.

However, when I try the same thing with the CCR routes there are not enough waypoints to 'force' the route along the original path, so parts of the route end up on the 'slab' where its available...grrrr.

Anyone had this problem? Someone must have upgraded to V7 and had this same issue, no??

Help, Jim

[tmgs]

I'm sure someone out there is able to answere my question, even if it isn't the answere I'm hoping for....

I downloaded the MapSource routes that were posted earlier in this thread but when I try to load them my new 376 with City Select V7 says 'maps out of date' or something to that effect. I have been working around this with some of my own older routes that I created for our local rides using V6 by 're-calculating' which then uses the V7 now on my PC.

However, when I try the same thing with the CCR routes there are not enough waypoints to 'force' the route along the original path, so parts of the route end up on the 'slab' where its available...grrrr.

Anyone had this problem? Someone must have upgraded to V7 and had this same issue, no??

Help, Jim


So I am assuming V7 is not backward compatible?

i don;t have V7 so when i gget the mapoos done they will be in V6.x maube someone can convert them for us I'm not sure

Tom

[BlackWing18]

Tom, you assume correctly, unfortunatly...I have been on the phone with Garmin and they wern't even aware (so they say ??) there could/would be a problem. We as bikers are a very small segment of the GPS market and since we are probably the only group that regularly take 'the long way home' and like to save the results of our planning efforts to possibly share with others, it wasn't even on their radar as a possible issue.

Bottom line, if you have routes saved that were created using V6 and want to avoid the hassle of completly redoing them with your new V7...the best chance is to have V6 in Mapsource on your PC, then dedicate a data card, (maybe that 128 that you replaced with a 256 or 512) and then for those routes and load the card with V6 maps that cover the area the routes are in.

However not even Garmin was sure that would work, it is just something the Tech Support Dept. and I hatched up to try and 'workaround' the problem.

Garmin is sending me a complete V6 DVD in the mail so I will advise...unless someone has already worked thru this and can share the results with the rest of us...???

Jim

[LBYKR]

Unfortunately, the maps do not come up on a MAC. Any hope of making them available for those of us in the MAC community?
Thanks

[eljeffe]

Unfortunately, the maps do not come up on a MAC. Any hope of making them available for those of us in the MAC community?
Thanks

When Garmin makes their software work on a Mac.

[rixchard]

Untested advice ahead:

You might try translating the map into a format that your Mac software uses. I am aware two intel based utilities for translating map files (gpsbabel and gpsutility) so I am assuming there are simailar products on the Mac side.

Good luck