Thursday, September 3, 2009

Zumo 550 GPS

I bought myself a Garmin Zumo 550 GPS in December, and I'd like to share my experiences.
This is a GREAT GPS especially as its nearly waterproof which I beleive is the only one on the market, the 550 comes complete with a bike AND car fitting kit, 2x power leads, bike connects directly to the battery, car is cigarette lighter type, NOTE the 450 and 500 comes with the bike ONLY option, also you get a computer program called mapsource so you can upload and down load places, settings, and tracks of where you have been.
The internal maps are hard wired into the Zumo so if you buy one from abroad you will also have to purchase UK maps and mapsource for the UK, so this doesn't make it a cheap option.
When in the car the holder has an internal speaker, for bike use you will need either a blue tooth headset (scala rider about

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