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We’ve come to rely on GPS. It’s one of those technologies that’s been utterly transformative during my lifetime. My late father’s desk, which sits behind me in the lab, has a drawer stuffed full of old Ordnance Survey maps. Today, they’re merely a curiosity. Google Maps does a better job in every way. And that’s before we start talking about the sheer usefulness of Street View.

Whilst we can discuss the advantages of Waze running on a connected smartphone versus the overpriced and underperforming GPS that’s so often built into cars, and the somewhat rapacious price of map updates, the reality is that the built-in thing is still workable.

Things get rather more exciting on a motorbike. A few vendors have implemented satnav directly into the digital dash of their most modern bikes; for example, BMW has created an app that runs on your phone that provides GPS capabilities to the screen on the bike. That’s fine if you have a new bike, but isn’t any good for the older items. For that, you must turn to vendors such as Garmin.

I have two BMW motorbikes: a 2009 K1300S (which is akin to Concorde or a private jet) and a 2013 R1200R (which is the last of that particular line of flat twin engines). BMW sells a full satnav product called the Navigator VI, which is custom-made by Garmin. This is a proper waterproof GPS that’s designed to be mounted on its own custom bracket. The advantage is that the bracket has push buttons for commonly used functions such as zooming in and mode change.

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