GARMIN Zumo 450 3 5 Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
GARMIN Zumo 450 3 5 Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
Rugged and ready to ride, the zmo 450 is your faithful guide to the open road. With glove-friendly, left-handed controls, preloaded street maps and a sunlight-readable screen, this waterproof navigator is made for motorcycles. The zmo 450 includes many of the 550’s motorcycle-friendly features, minus Bluetooth wireless technology, text-to-speech and XM Satellite, at a price that won’t break your budget.The zmo 450 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps and a hefty points of interest (POIs) database, including motels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. Simply enter a destination, and zmo takes you there with turn-by-turn voice directions. In addition, zmo accepts custom points of interest such as school zones and safety cameras, and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs.Monitor traffic tie-ups with the addition of an optional FM TMC traffic receiver. By adding traffic services and a receiver, your 450 notifies you of upcoming accidents or road construction ahead on your route. Simply touch the screen to view traffic details or recalculate your route to avoid traffic.The zmo 450 makes it easy to plan your next trip and share routes with your riding buddies. Plan trips on your computer before you start. Search for food and fuel stops and local attractions. Then, transfer your route to zmo and go.At the end of the day, share your favorite places and rides with other zmo riders and review your travels in Google Earth. SD card expansion makes it easy to store data and share routes. Download routes to share with your riding buddies – even load Mp3 files to your unit to enjoy tunes on the road. In addition, JPEG Picture Viewer lets you share photos of your adventures with friends and family.zmo 450: the navigator that’s born to ride.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Zumo 450
I love this GPS…installed it on my FJR 1300 and use it for long distance touring. I prefer to stay off of the Freeways and take backroads and this unit does a great job of finding great back roads. It was a little bit of a pain to hard wire, but I figured it out. I went to radio shack and purchased an inexpensive on’off switch which is very convenient. Then when I turn off my bike, I can swith off the motorcycle battery power and it will continue for quite a while on it’s own internal battery power. Then when I am ready to ride again, I flip on my switch and it feeds off of the bike. Amazon had the best price at the time I bought this, but the price seems to fluctuate quite a bit. So check around.
4 Stars I’m excited!
This thing is bad a$$! only down side is it has no built in speakers and you can’t use a head set with out it being on a mount with a power running through the mount. I was hoping to use it on the bike and the truck but i’ll have to buy another $130 mount for the truck. BUT! It’s got so many features and i’ve already got people sending me their favorite motorcycle rides! I’m pretty pumped!
3 Stars Zumo 450
I’m rideing BMW K1200LT,can not get sound going out of navigator, very poor manual, plus navigator covers left view mirrow, on right turn olmost taches windscreen. With turn buckle on mouting brucket easy to stil from motorcycle. Outdated maps. To get this product going to the normal operating standarts you have to buy many extras.
4 Stars Its a good product, but I didn’t get JUST want I wanted.
This is a pretty good device all around. Its durable, easy to use for someone even in gloves, and it can be used in conjunction with Harley Davidson.com’s ride planner to plan your route.
2 Problems I have with it:
1) Don’t think it can be used as a GPS for both bike and car. It has a weird plug-in for the mount that gives it power (the only way to power the thing and use it at the same time is to power through the mount) and Garmin doesn’t sell a car adapter with that end. Also, they don’t sell anything that can mount it to the window of your car. It would be so easy for Garmin to make these things, but they obviously want you to own GPS’s for as many things as they can get you to buy them for, regardless of the overwhelmingly high price.
2) If you want to be able to just hear it tell you where to go and not mess with putting in the wires to power it up, also out of luck! It requires power to use the audio functions. So you better resign yourself to getting this thing installed if you don’t feel comfortable wiring your own bike.
Those two things get fixed, and I’d think it was PERFECT!
2 Stars less than good
How could you sell a GPS WITHOUT Bluetooth?
I thought it would function as well if not better than my car’s GPS and this one cost 3 times more.
I will have to hard wire it to a headset and not be able to use my phone while riding.
