Garmin 2610 and Bikes

I was wondering if any one has experience of the Garmin 2610 when used on
their bike's, I have a 2620 which was sent to me in error, but when riding
reasonable quickly the unit resets it self. I am told that it is a known
problem on the 2620. Anyone had this on the 2610?

TIA

 

FWIW, my GPS V does this when running off the AA batteries -- something
to do with vibration methinks. It's fine when hooked up to the bike
battery [1].

[1] When there's some charge in it.

 

How have you got it mounted? It may be the vibration rather than the speed.

I have an E-Trex Vista and have found it's susceptible to vibration on two
fronts.
1) It can shake itself to bits internally (they replaced that one)
2) The batteries can move in the battery holder, turning the unit off.

Originally I had it mounted on the top yoke of the SV with a bit of strong
velcro - but that unit vibrated to death.

Current Vista is mounted in a RAM mount which tends to isolate it from a lot
of the vibration (though on a 4-cyl it's possibly less to being with) and
also allows me to power it from the bike, thereby negating the battery
problem. So far it's worked perfectly.

Reminds me - I must download the track log at some point.

 

For others who have posted, the 26xx series can only run off 12v power
(no battery option).

David

send it back - it's faulty! The fact it's got a micro drive rather
than a standard CF card (the 2610) should make no difference to it
switching off or not. If the micro drive vibrated itself to bits, fair
enough, it wouldn't restart, but switching off? It's faulty (or just
maybe, the power connection is loose).

Cheers

 

Yep. The 2620 doesn't like motorbikes as the vibration plays merry
hell with the CF microdrive. If you can, get it swapped back for a
2610 and use the saved money to buy a bigger CF *solid state" memory
card.

Where did you get the 2620 and did you tell them the you would be
using it on a bike?

The European version of the 2610 comes with a 256MB card which can fit
all of the UK and Ireland and most of northern France (includin Paris)
on it. The City Navigator maps for all of Europe fit in about 1.6GB
so a 2GB card will do the trick. Next time I travel to Europe is when
I will buy a bigger card myself.