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Always stay on the right path, never been marginalized: the navigation devices should now make it possible. MOTORCYCLE has tested the current-generation navigation system for bikes and offers tips and tricks on the subject of navigation on two wheels.


It is the irrationality of motorcycling, this may be the track never purely on rationality oriented micro chips and processors: how to understand a binary code in loops and if-then-active computer understands what the motorcycle traveling man with a beautiful track? This shows once more the test of navigation systems for motorcycles. In no time dream routes out of the hat to conjure up a rule at all. And if they do, then this is based on pure chance.

Who wants to be sure, on the way from A to B in fact take the best thing that ran itself and must be read as ever the good old map in order to transfer green highlighted sections with as many stopovers on his road book. The risk that you miss anyway nice track sections is large. For as the first linked only by air line between goals can be approached on the street depends on the settings of the devices. One may appear on the map, the path on the road most logical, in the route calculation; however, the Navi has suddenly made it a highway section as a faster or shorter distance.

• “Avoid motorway” is this faux pas with the function to put away easily, nevertheless threatens new trouble.
• For example, when the preference “shortest route”. As you can suddenly find yourself in game traffic roads.
• Because this section is just the final mile shorter than if you would roll on the main road through town.

Especially embarrassing, who powered ahead with its Navi as the motorcycle gang on the road.The system even though you may blame any mistakes. Finally, it follows only the programming. But the respective manufacturers. Here, the stresses and GPS specialist Jo Glaser Touratech, “it definitely missing in the lobby for motorcycle riders.” A specially customized software solution on the motorcycle has no navigation system on board. Although it would be technically feasible to integrate such a thing. How effective is a good route planner for the motorcycle works, the following example from our test: “Avoid Highway” In the distance calculation Stuttgart-Heilbronn with the preference, the test equipment shimmy always attended by nearly a straight line following the A81 along, to get a lot of local traffic. The actual best route, for example, spits out the software available as a PC MOTORCYCLE Trip Planner button to indicate in a no bike-Navi.