Which Motorcycle Sat Nav

[Bananaman1]

Greetings from a newbie.
Am doing research to try and decide which sat nav for my motorcycle tour of Europe next year, well nearly this one really !

The Garmin 2610 looks ok and good price but has no internal battery which I think I will need at some point.
The new motorcycle specific ones are too expensive so was thinking of a Navman maybeaan 1520 ???? as it looks like it will do the job ok but is not waterproof. I can always get a waterproof case so that's nor really a problem, but do you feel it is rugged enough?
Secondly most pics I have seen except one seem to indicate there is no external antenna, only this one pic I saw it looked like something flipped up on the back, anyone know if the antenna sit's proud or is it anternal?

look forward to any replies or advice.

[dickst3]

The TomTom bike version seems reasonable? I would go for one if it had a speaker so that I could also use it in the car...

[nitram_tpr]

Originally Posted by Bananaman1

Greetings from a newbie.
Am doing research to try and decide which sat nav for my motorcycle tour of Europe next year, well nearly this one really !

I've got an Orange SPV500 mobile phone that runs windows mobile. I have installed TomTom on it. It works fine coupled to a bluetotth GPS receiver. I put the phone and GPS receiver in the clear window of my tank bag. I can't hear the directions but to be honest you'd need a flippin' loud speaker for me as I always wear earplugs. The Sat-nav works fine as it counts down to the next waypoint on the route so you don't need to keep looking down too much.
It also works out a new route to the destination within a minute or so if you miss a turning. I've done this on purpose to test it out. Considering I got the phone from work for nothing, downloaded the TomTom for nothing too and only paid £38 for my Holux 321 GPS receiver I'm well pleased with it

The thing with a phone base sat-nav is you could hook it up to earphones and listen to the directions that way.