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I keep my iPhone in my jacket pocket and use the bluetooth module on my helmet. I also have a Garmin GPS on the handebar of my touring bike, although in 2021 you can get GPS built right into the bike's instrument panel.

(To be fair, my most preferred navigation method on long trips is to tape a piece of paper with handwritten notes to the fuel tank anyway.)

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> (To be fair, my most preferred navigation method on long trips is to tape a piece of paper with handwritten notes to the fuel tank anyway.)

Nice to know I'm not alone. This is how I drive cars long distance (but without taping it to a fuel tank), smartphones are handy for quick short navigation, but I feel uncomfortable trusting it for longer journeys - I want to know where i'm going and how i'm going there.

The funny thing is that the act of writing down a summary of the journey, even with diagrams is usually enough for me to remember the whole thing.

> The funny thing is that the act of writing down a summary of the journey, even with diagrams is usually enough for me to remember the whole thing.

This is well known.. planning navigation by reading maps engaged our brains actively.. following navigation basically makes us dumb spatially

To clarify, on most motorcycles the fuel tank is directly in front of the rider's pelvis.

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