Well I just bought a garmin nuva 57Lm gps today after reading quite a bit on less expensive units.
It has a battery life of two hrs., not really what I wanted but the other Garmin 1300 with a 4 hr. batt. life didn't get very good reviews, and I'm no hand at this tech. business anyway, Why do you think I ride a 28 year old motorcycle?
It is water resistant etc. even though it's designed for a car.
It does have free lifetime map updates.
I have no idea how to go about downloading a Canadian map, which I may need if I don't die first, I want to hit Canada again?
By the way it sounds it is the very basic type outfit I was looking for?
Does anyone have a line on a motorcycle mount system for it? ( maybe handlebar)
Also I would like to find the cable to allow me to hard wire it into my electric system, I admit I know just about nothing about it other than what I seen coming with other units.
The other ( motorcycle) units I looked at with an affordable unit didn't add up to what I wanted, Not displaying mph only kilometers and seemed to be just a little to cheap?