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    I'm after a sat nav and after much research, reading magazines and watching YouTube reviews, I decided the BeeLine moto was the way to go.
    https://beeline.co/pages/beeline-moto
    It links to your phone and gives very simple instructions via the small screen attached to the bike's bars.
    It arrived yesterday so I downloaded the app and plotted a route to Hexham in Northumberland. Obviously I don't want to ride 300 miles and 6hrs on the motorway so checked the "Avoid highways" option.
    It comes back with a 10hr route. I try again. 11hr route.
    After 2hrs of messing around and an email to Beeline HQ, It turns out "avoid highways" avoids all major A roads! and there's no option to avoid motorways.
    Why would this even be an option?
    The BeeLine moto is a nice idea but too flawed to be of any practical use.
     
     

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    Interesting. Not a lot of help then. I think that may be what Last Train has got recently?
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    Not sure why the "Avoid Motorways" option seems to plague a lot of sat navs. My TomTom does what you ask of it (for the most part) but the one I use for biking which is MS Maps when set to Avoid Motorways also includes A roads which is a bit of a chit as it sometimes says cannot set route as no roads exist to destination, so I have to have Motorways enabled and use the grey matter to avoid them and let the sat nav recalculate which it finally does after trying a 1001 times to get me to do a U turn. I did try using paper maps but they keep blowing off the tank !
    I think that Beeline is the one TMF has and did a feature on
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    Quote Originally Posted by wiltshire builders View Post
    I'm after a sat nav and after much research, reading magazines and watching YouTube reviews, I decided the BeeLine moto was the way to go.
    https://beeline.co/pages/beeline-moto
    It links to your phone and gives very simple instructions via the small screen attached to the bike's bars.
    It arrived yesterday so I downloaded the app and plotted a route to Hexham in Northumberland. Obviously I don't want to ride 300 miles and 6hrs on the motorway so checked the "Avoid highways" option.
    It comes back with a 10hr route. I try again. 11hr route.
    After 2hrs of messing around and an email to Beeline HQ, It turns out "avoid highways" avoids all major A roads! and there's no option to avoid motorways.
    Why would this even be an option?
    The BeeLine moto is a nice idea but too flawed to be of any practical use.
    Avoiding all major A roads would be of interest to me, I'm not usually a sat nav user (on a bike anyway) but may take it off our hands if you don't want it
     
     

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    Can you plot a route on a laptop and then export file to run on the planned route.
     
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trev View Post
    Avoiding all major A roads would be of interest to me, I'm not usually a sat nav user (on a bike anyway) but may take it off our hands if you don't want it
    Luckily Sportsbike shop who i bought it through do 365 day free returns so I'll be asking for a refund.
    I usually use chinograph pencil on the fuel tank but thought I'd move into the 20th century.
     
     

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    I was pondering buying one of these based on rave reviews from someone I know with one. However losing all A roads when dodging motorways seems a bit crap. Do you know if it uses it's own routing or just piggy backs google?
     
     

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    I just use the tomtom app on my phone with headphones, £12.99 a year and very regular updates, been using it for about 8 years and never seen me wrong. Good thing about it is iv always got my phone on me so always got the satnav on me.
     
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by wiltshire builders View Post
    Luckily Sportsbike shop who i bought it through do 365 day free returns so I'll be asking for a refund.
    I usually use chinograph pencil on the fuel tank but thought I'd move into the 20th century.
    Sportsbike shop are hard to beat, definitely first stop for kit.

    I still use chinagraph pencil for the 'trip' when filling the Enfield even though it seems to run forever on a tankful ; )
     
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by jer r1 View Post
    Can you plot a route on a laptop and then export file to run on the planned route.
    You can import GPX files but I don't fancy taking my laptop with me on long trips incase I fancy a spot of the moment change of plans.
     
     

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