Originally Posted by bemoore
Cost, maybe? Mapping units can cost as much as a decent bike. I originally got mine for mountain biking, so mapping wouldn't have been useful anyway.
The $200 that my Etrex legend cx cost doesn't come close to the cost of my "decent" bikes, maybe if you added a zero it would be in the ball park of a couple of them.
Your assesment that mapping gps devices are not useful for mountain biking also puzzles me. I would find non mapping type gps devices useless. The maps are great out in the woods where there aren't any street signs and where you might want to know if your close to a road