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I've used a Legend, a 60cx, and a ForeTrex 201 on my bicycle and motorcycle with the normal garmin handlebar mounts. All work fine. I believe the bike-specific gps are mainly training tools and not nav tools. If you are doing rough riding you might consider a unit with an internal rechargeable battery as the handhelds with AA batts are famous for losing battery contact under heavy vibration on bikes.

There are several answers to the question. * the microSD is data-agnostic; you can mount it in a card reader (or put the GPSr in mass storage mode) and save as many waypoints as you want to it * I do not own that unit, but I suspect you cannot write waypoints to the card or read waypoint from the card from the GPSr itself * Many garmin X models will save track data to the sd card * you can save custom POI to the card and have the GPSr read those. \

After a reset the GPSr may require a very long uninterrupted view of the sky. I'd turn it on and put it somewhere with a great view (outside) and let it suck down the data from the birds. Could take more than a half hour. There may be a section in the manual that discusses this phenomanon.

I couldn't get it with gpsbabel, newer mapsource, or the Brit gpsutil program. I could see some of the waypoint names with *nix strings: #ABARCA CRTD 17:46 07-MAY-00 #ABOLOGN CRTD 18:05 09-APR-00 #ABSTWST CRTD 01:16 31-DEC-99 #ACALAIS@ CRTD 23:53 29-JUN-00 But I didn't see anything that looked like coords.

I wonder if it's the old pcx format. Did you already try to Import the .pcx in modern mapsource rather than Open? Is there a place you can post one of the files in their entirety so we can dork with it?

Subsequent maploads erase previous ones. Upload all mapsets at once. Waypoints are stored individually in internal memory; any waypoints with the same name get overwriten and others are unaffected.

I googled airports vor gpx and found this. I hope it's helpful.

Ahhh, I misread that and thought the OP was using the CN card already. Mea culpa.

Does the 400 have a "lock on road" setting? If so, give that a whirl and see if it meets your needs.

You might be better off trying to search for track/waypoint/route files for NJ that others have captured, and upload those to the GPS. It's fairly common for folks to walk/ride trails with the "breadcrumbs" on. That'd be more likely than finding finished topo maps for the area. I'd google something like "New Jersey gps OR gpx OR loc" or something like that.

The following mapsets can be used to autoroute on this handheld (off the top of my head, there may be more): CityNav. This is the default for most people. My car gps came with a second unlock which I can use on my handheld for free. Locked software. City Select, if you can find an unused copy. Locked software. Topo Canada (and perhaps others). It is not clear where "sofla" is so I don't rule this out. I do not know the lock situation. MetroGuide 4, right out of the box. No locks. MetroGuide 5 using the tool in the link in my .sig below . No locks. MetroGuide 6 using the tool in the link in my .sig below . No locks. MetroGuide 7 using the tool in the link in my .sig below . No locks. MetroGuide 8 using the tool in the link in my .sig below . No locks. the basemap (which I wasn't even considering). I use MGNAv8 in my 60cx and it autoroutes effectively. Are all the options above right for most consumers? No. Most people will buy CN and be happy with it. It's not, however, the only Garmin mapset that will autoroute in an autorouting GPSr, handheld or otherwise.

I agree that it would be easiest to buy CN maps (preferably on DVD) to make the handheld auto-route, but IMO it is not correct to suggest that CN is needed in order to auto-route in the handheld.

If you have a 2nd license from the CN on the nuvi you can install it on the 60 to sonsume the 2nd license. If not, probably the cheapest route would be to buy use MG off eBay or similar, and hack it to route (see .sig below).

I have not tried, it, but I seem to remember there being a "avoid this section" selection tool in MapSource. I suppose you could hem the mapset in with the avoidance selection polygons and re-send the mapset to the 60 to see it it works. I'd suggest making a static route, but my testing indicates that CN+autorouting GPS only results in the beginning and ending waypoints being seen in the GPSr. MetroGuide will send the routes to the 60 in their entirety, but I don't know if that is a functio of the gps or mapsource.

The Rino will cache fine (ie, point the arrow to the cache). It will not show maps. Your life will be easier if he also loaned you the PC cable so you can upload the cache waypoints with EasyGPS or similar.

My instinct is that the usb cable is plugged into an unpowered hub which is at the limit of its power draw. I'd try plugging it into a usb cable that's jacked into the PC directly or into a powered USB hub.

Basemaps are, by necessity and design, crude and oversimplified.

You could load them as POI and get proximity alarms (for all caches in a given .gpx) that way, but you'd lose geocaching-specific functionality.

Manually saved routes and tracks live in the GPSr. If you have a card present you can tell it to save tracks to the card as-you-go.

EasyGPS is free (and easy) and is probably the go-to software for uploading waypoints to GPSr of all flavors.

I am cheap/frugal/stubborn, so I'd buy the cable and adapter cheap off eBay or similar. The USB adapter will be usable for other legacy serial devices also.

Same here. I have a garmin handlebar mount on the bicycle and motorcycle and swap the 60cx and others back and forth at will.

You'd think so. But if we are researching a situation where there is ambiguity between what we think is in the GPSr and what is in the GPSr then downloading the data could be instructive. We have already proven that the GPSr's behaviour towards the route is anomalous.

No, assuming there is no firmware update that would allow more. You can load (practically) as many as you want as Custom POI using the free garmin POI Loader.

It's real easy to test; the OP could download the route from the GPSr using a non-Mapsource program and see whether or not the waypoints are there. I suspect they are not. If they are, then the gps could nav off-road and get waypoint to waypoint pointers, I guess.