Originally Posted by
cia dog
The Garmin Quest? That thing is over $600! Just to go cycling with? Seems like an extreme overkill to me. And all that money with no way to add memory via expansion slots or internal hard drive with additional maps thus you have to load and reload maps all the time via a computer. The Quest has only 115mb of internal memory but in a state where you live, California, that map alone is 122mb.
The prices of the older models vary considerably and the Quest was available for $125 at the time (and the V was similar). The memory is more limited than for the ones that take the microSD and similar cards so it requires a little pre-trip planning to load the relevant set of maps. Yes, covering every square inch of California does fill the memory (and even leaves a bit uncovered), but I can also choose to load just the maps along the corridor for a cross-country tour from the SF Bay to the North Carolina coast and they all fit in the available memory. And unplanned deviations outside that corridor aren't that much of a problem since I'd still have all the normal cyclometer functions as well as the basemap level of road data that's similar to paper state highway maps. It's similar to the situation with using the Adventure Cycling maps which also only cover the preplanned corridor of the route.