EOE Advice Please: Zumo 660 or ? and best plact to buy

[Major 662]

My average day trip is 500 miles, and the batteries lasted for a 600 mi. day. I probably should have been clearer. I verified 8.5 hours, and have yet to verify how long it lasts beyond 8.5 hrs. My guess is the 600 mi. day took 10 hrs of riding.

Do you ever use the controls on the MW600 while you're riding?  Or just tuck it in an internal pocket?

[ray916mn]

Do you ever use the controls on the MW600 while you're riding?  Or just tuck it in an internal pocket?

I just tuck it into an internal pocket. The controls are too small to be used with gloved hands.

[tigertom1965]

I have a Zumo 550 and love it for my MP3s which I use evertime I ride. I have an 8GB (Or was that 32GB) card in it but I don't use all of it. I have only needed to reset the battery a few times in my 2 years of service. It works much better if I shut off the engine and it asks me if I want to shut it down or go on battery. If I shut it down I don't have problems if I shut it off while it is still plugged in I have issues trying to get it started again. Now if I load my maps to only my card it will fail to start if it gets too hot. It sometimes routes me over dirt roads that are better left to a KLR so I am always cautious when following directions. I have also found out I have to be very close to a road for it to be able to calculate a route for me. Don't laugh it doesn't know how to get through a parking lot because they are not on the maps. Do wish I had the correct lane feature. Sometimes I have to take my eyes off the road to know which exit to get off at because East and West exits are too close. It says to take the next right but that doesn't always mean the next right is the next right. It can sometimes be the second right. I have it hooked up by bluetooth to my Cardo Scala Q2 Rider and even with no stereo music it is really not bad at all. I don't expect studio quality inside a helmet with the wind whistling in my ears anyway. One thing I do not like is I can no longer download all of North America map on to my Garmin unit itself since it was limited to 1GB of internal memory. The North American map is now over that 1GB limit and I have had to not load some data. I skipped Mexico, Hawaii, and some parts of the middle of Canada where I don't expect to ever go on my bike. Hopefully the 665 has these issues resolved? Also the Zumo 550 XM connection is not sent over the bluetooth hook up so I didn't purchase the $230 antenna. I didn't know there were any other bike GPS's besides the Garmin ones anyway.