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Not that I am considering buying one but what you said here is interesting. Can't beat the price. I'll assume you get no audible prompts if running a set route (?). This would mean paying close attention to the screen so you don't miss your turns if I'm correct. ( Do you still use a cue sheet? ) You also didn't mention how you mount it but that shouldn't be too hard to do.
Routes can/do include audible prompts and zooms but we don't use routes anymore but rather tracks. For our big annual trip I get gpx files (as well as pdf maps) that I upload to ridewithgps and write directly into the device. The problem with routes is that the devices (all Garmins) recalculate routes for themselves based on the waypoints. And it almost never matches our paper maps perfectly. Tracks, however, will match perfectly once defined. For a couple of years I did both tracks and routes just to get the beeps and zooms but it was a little confusing watching for the differences between routes and tracks.