Installed A New Zumo Xt2 Gps Yesterday

MRA are running a promotion right now, their 10 year anniversary. MRA Gold lifetime is €99 I believe. Well worth snapping up at that price. The advantages over the free version include Google mapping a street view amongst others. I suggest that you check it out and compare

I found with my XT, and previous Zumo 590, that allowing MRA to add a defined number of random shaping points to a route resulted it more reliable routing as the Garmin sometimes recalculated and changed the route. Of course, you could just disable recalculation but that takes away the flexibility.

I've finally taken the plunge and abandoned Garmin, after almost 30 years, and adopted MRA completely with their Navigation Next app. Sold my XT this week.

 

Have a look at https://www.zumouserforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1464 - an excellent set of detailed notes on how the Garmin Zumo XT works together with advice on how best to use it with MRA and Bascamp.

 

A couple of useful points to remember when creating routes.
1. Place your first waypoint a mile down the road and choose that as your first point. This avoids the sat nav trying to send you back to the start.

2. Place a waypoint (or shaping point) a mile or so after every major junction on the road you want to take rather than at the actual junction. This will ensure you ride the road you want not what the sat nav decides or you ride past it.

3. Skip waypoint is your friend, learn how it works

4. Zoom right in to make sure you are the right side of dual carriageway roads.

5. Thanks to @steveb123 he showed me how to export the track and then have that showing all the time so if you sat nav tries to reroute you down a ‘shortcut’ you can ignore it and follow the track line until you pick up the route again.

Have fun, MRA is so much easier than Basecamp and far more intuitive with great tools if you upgrade to Gold.

 

I have just installed a Carpuride W702 onto my iconic mount on my V4S and can use MRA (with a selection of other maps as a "lifetime" MRA user). This gives me music, calls etc as well as maps and full use of Google Voice Assistant via my Sena helmet and Android Phone. Had to make up a mount and not had a chance to fully test it out on the road yet but it seems to be very good and cheaper than a standalone GPS unit. Only down side could be battery life on the phone but using downloaded maps on the phone cuts down data usage and saves the battery. Still playing with it at the moment

 

I've got a 10 year old Tom Tom in my car. Bang in a postcode and it tells me where to go. That's it, end of story.
There's a factory fit Ducati sat-nav on my bike, I do the same thing, but its defo not as good as the Tom Tom.

Reading thru the posts above about what you guys do with these modern sat-nav's, all these different software apps etc, I just haven't got a clue what the hell your on about .
It all sounds too bloody complicated

And yes, I still carry a paper map book in my car

 

Depending on the source, or are these ones you've created yourself, they may change significantly once you're riding them and your XT2 tries to recalc the route. This can be frustrating, especially riding in a group, riders with other sat navs (even Garmins) running the same route that you may have shared will likely get different results. Adding plenty of routing nodes/shaping points will help to mitigate this.

If you haven't found them already there are some good, albeit lengthy tutorials on the MRA YouTube channel. As MRA is in a state of constant development and improvement these might not match what you're seeing in your version, some good information all the same.

I have a EVKEY L200 arriving in about 30 mins, if Evri are to be believed. Looking forward to putting that on the bike and trying it out. Having run my XT alongside my Samsung S22 running MRA Navigation Next since last June, including a trip to Germany, I've finally bitten the bullet and I'm adopting the MRA system fully. I chose the L200 over the Carpuride on the grounds that it's slightly smaller, especially vertically, and has AMPS hole pattern mounting so will directly fit above the instruments on my Multi on the adapted Ducati mount that's already there. A riding buddy has a Carpuride W702 which is impressive but frankly too large for my liking.

It's a little complicated though I do get the 'easy direct method'. However, you're missing out on being able to plot routes that follow the roads you want to ride rather than relying on the 'get me there by roads the GPS decides on'. Yes, there's work and and some learning involved...

 

I'd be interested to know if the L200 is really an AMPS hole pattern mount? The W702 says it is but it isn't! Its a Chinese RAM Mount - slightly smaller that the standard RAM pattern.

 

I can confirm that the L200 is AMPS compatible (30mm x 38mm). I asked in advance to be sure, and they sent the attached pics.


Apologies for the KTM flavour, but details of my setup and comments on the unit can be found here.

 

As posted above by @GarySN, and according to him as we've discussed this on another thread, it is AMPS pattern. The square pattern on the Carpuride, and it's larger size, is what put me off.

Looks like the Evri delivery today isn't the L200 but an SP Connect warranty replacement I discussed with them yesterday. I wasn't expecting that to be delivered so quickly, impressive as are their products. The L200 should be here tomorrow or Saturday.

 

Yes the Carpuride is square and the hole centres are 30 x 30mm, that's not AMPS compatible hence I had to make up a mount.

 

The lifetime Gold is a good buy if it’s still on offer.

 

I was the same but used to get so frustrated when the Sat Nav sent me on dull roads or kept wanting me to turn round. A bit of reading and demo videos and it made so much more sense.

A couple of years ago we were on a Multistrada meet up in Portugal and the organiser announced proudly that he’d created the route. When we loaded it up it had a waypoint at the start and a waypoint at the end so the route when added to the Sat Nav made a trip of 15 seconds!

 

Happy to help if you need advice. There are some good YouTube tutorials as well

 

I've started using the MRA planning and navigation this year, done about 5 rides, and it's exactly what I was hoping for. Easy planning on my computer, open my phone, everything is there and ready to be navigated. No import/export, none of that BS. Navigation app seems pretty straightforward, shows speedcameras, speed limits, and actual speed. Route recalculation seem fairly fast. Can skip waypoint with my gloves on, while riding too. Happy days