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Navigation \ routing - Keeps on taking me down dirt tracks.

Matthew.Dennis
over 5 years ago

After my 1000 blew up i reluctantly forked out on the 830 as i've become heavily reliant on the round tip and get me home functions as i travel around the country a lot and don't have a clue where i'm going.

On the 1000 this function worked well but on the 830 i've been asked to ride across farmers fields and dirt tracks, surfaces my pride and joy road bike really aren't designed for. Its become that bad when i was in the Peak the other day that i turn my routing off and resorted to using google maps.

My activity setting is: Road and the Avoidance setting are set (The the green bar next to them) to avoid toll roads, unpaved road, ferries and narrow trails.

Is anyone else having similar issues or could recommend any settings i may have missing before it goes in the big (as Its not fit for purpose: navigation on a road bike).

Sorry for the rant, its a lot of money and its not fun being lost!

Thanks.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Had exactly this yesterday on a 120 mile (was meant to be 110!) ride in Surrey, Sussex, Kent. It took me down narrow dirt tracks through trees, a dual carriageway, (luckily it was early) bridleways paved with broken bricks and big chunks of gravel, onto a road that was gated shut and marked 'Private' and then into a bridleway that was covered in 3ft high grass (I tried to push through it and my bike's drive train ended up covered in grass / seeds etc.) eventually blocked off by nettles. I wasted so much time dealing with the extra miles, a puncture and trying to find alternative routes. I almost missed my train home and thus my son's football presentation night. I plotted the route as 'Road Cycling' - why can that not just allow the route to use roads only. Not 'Trails', 'Unpaved Roads' 'Alleys' etc.