Route changes

Thank you Kevin! This should solve it.

On 5.34 firmware - had loaded a route and accidently took a wrong turn and i was expecting my $450 AUD GPS unit would be able to route me back to my planned route. Followed a magenta line and rode on a bit and ended up on a fairly busy road which i suspected is taking me very further away from my planned route. I believe i had Recalculation enabled. All recalculation does is produce a spurious route. It didn't even come close to bringing me back to my planned route. I had to very dangerously cross to the other side and head back to the direction i believe is my original route - all this time the 530 was as useful as a piece of rock. Numerous attempts at loading the route again - and hoping it would lead me back to the route failed..lucky I was in a reasonably familiar area. In the end i changed the profile to one where there was no automatic recalculation and used it like a map - i zoomed out and cycled towards the magenta line. 

I think it's best to switch off recalculation since the recalculation function is so very useless and even misleading. The disabled recalculation is not a sticky though.....I think the unit will still recalculate if the map data is dodgy. Anyway still more testing to prove my theory....i've owned this for a few months now and every third ride it surprises me still - not in a good way. 

Recalculation will take you back to your destination, not back to a pre-defined course. In this case, you do want recalculation "off".

As for being a "sticky", one trap is that the recalculation setting applies to that profile only. If you use a different profile, there may well be a different setting. Personally, I have a specific profile set up for when I am navigating with the map, versus just riding in an area I am familiar with and don't need the mapping.

Yes - i agree - it does look like that's how recalculation works, which explains why i was so far off my planned route. Once recalculation kicks in it doesn't take into account your planned route - in fact it produces it's own complete route - so in fact you lose your route..

i always thought recalculation will to some extent try to preserve the loaded route by taking me back to to it. I was wrong. This now explains why i am always so devastated by the result of a recalculation.

Good clarification. 

It would be great if we can easily generate different routes (for the same destination) until a suitable one appears - i don't mind the time it takes - when you're lost you're a goner anyway.

Does the 530 have a function where u can point a spot on the map and it'll route you to it ?

You can also preload certain locations (waypoints).
Home, mayor intersections, villages, restaurants, campsites, carparks, hospitals, public transportation etc.
This will save you the fiddling around with the buttons.
If your plan changes, you can easily navigate to the desired location.

If you go off road, it's better to use tracks, instead of routes.
A track stays the same, no matter what. just like a line you've drawn on a paper map.
It's up to you to stay on the line, and when you go off, you can use the map to get back on track, or just go back.
Sounds primitive, but works better.