I have been eyeballing one of the Garmin 305\/605\/705 bicycle specific GPS computers but the cost has held me back. Last month we went on vacation and I bought a Garmin car GPS model 260. Looking through the settings I found that you could set it for bicycle use in addition to automobile. Also you can select offroad as an option on the routing.<\/p>\n
Making those changes I took it on a ride to test out the recording. The text to voice feature talked me through its attempt to get me back home but it did record my route. I muted the sound on my next ride. Now the question was how do I download the route information and show it on a map.<\/p>\n
Searching around I found a free program EasyGPS<\/strong><\/a> that works with the Garmin 260. They also offer a paid program ExpertGPS<\/strong><\/a> that includes US Geologic Survey maps. EasyGPS does not include any maps.<\/p>\n Using the EasyGPS program I downloaded the route data from my Garmin 260. Next I went to Bikely.com<\/strong><\/a> and imported the route data and presto I have the ride on a Google map.<\/p>\n Now to keep routes separate I delete the trip data from the 260 after each ride while saving the file on my computer. I can see trip data on the 260 by tapping on the speed area of the map. This gives things like average speed, altitude, total miles, etc.<\/p>\n Now I get dual duty from my car GPS and do not need to spend the big bucks on the 305\/605\/705 units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been eyeballing one of the Garmin 305\/605\/705 bicycle specific GPS computers but the cost has held me back. Last month we went on vacation and I bought a Garmin car GPS model 260. Looking through the settings I …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[956,957,955],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-equipment","tag-easygps","tag-expertgps","tag-garmin-260"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-Lz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}