Originally Posted by
Miele Man
The MAIN reason I'd buy use a Garmin would be for finding my position/location whilst touring remote backroads. That's why i asked if it was feasible to use it that way.
Here's an example of what i might want to do.
I head out from a known location in the AM and ride for a number of hours on winding dirt/gravel logging/mining roads and I want to know where I am nthen when i make camp. I was hoping that i could simply turn the Garmin on and it'd locate my position and display it. Or am i in error thinking a Garmin can be used that way?
Right now and since the 1980's I use topographical maps, a divider (for scaling distance on the map) and my bicycle computer. Example. I measure a route with the dividers and figure the distances to roads or whatever and then use the bicycle computer to measurethe distances so that i know when to look for the turn off or whatever. however, sometimes if a backroad isn't used much it's very easy to pass it.
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A Garmin will do what you want, but so will a lot of other devices that cost a fraction of what even the cheapest Garmin sells for. The reason the Garmin is more expensive is that it has many cycling-specific features that you won't take advantage of the way you're describing. For example you asked if you'd lose the data stored in the Garmin when you change its batteries, but if you plan to have it powered down for 99 % of the time you spend riding, what data are you hoping to preserve?