When we used to do adventure rides the instructions were on long strips of paper we wound onto what we called a"click clack" box. The sound of the lid shutting.
I made a bigger version and fitted a "toilet roll" map into the box arrangement. It means we can go exploring back country roads when there is no particular destination in mind.
I used our AA maps, sliced them to width and cello-taped them together. I can fit the whole of the North Island of NZ into the box and the maps have the name of every dirt and back road we may choose to ride along.
The GPS systems don't give us this freedom to see all the options and simply travel where the mood takes us.
I hope the photo's will give you the basics of the construction.

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I like that, thats proper ingenuity is that

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OOoo I'm liking that, much better than my bit of paper in my Givi Sat-Nav bag!
Selina

brill,i do a cheap version ,wrap some card around handlebars works great untill it rains.Nice one i might pinch the idea

Time to get a new GPS and load up the topographic map or even airphoto's to use as an underlay.

No, I haven't my self done it yet but at the shop I saw a Garmin Zumo 660 with the topographic maps so that was the unit I got. When I save the money it is the first thing on the list, (just under centre stand, handguards).

http://www.oztopo.com/

All the data fits on one of them little mini SD thingo's which you need for carrying the MP3 tunes anyway (always good to have a bit of Elvis (gee it doesn't seem like 33yrs - RIP) in your helmet on a long trip).

And you can zoom in and out, it works well but the only problem is you can't see everything at once to "get the big picture".

Me likey.

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