Not sure if its relevant, but just throwing this out there in case it might be of interest to someone. I came to motorcycle from cycling. When riding bicycles, most people use a ride computer to track stats of the ride. Garmin Edge computers are pretty popular. I have the Garmin Edge 820 from cycling and I typically use it on every motorcycle ride as well.
It has a few cool features while on the bike like providing tons of stats. Temp, time, direction, elevation, speed, sunset time, etc. Pretty much whatever you want it to tell you. It can also do routing functions, but its not as nice as the Zumo. If you are in a pinch and need to look at a map, you can pull over and it will show you exactly where you are on the map, where you came from, how to get back, etc. It lasts about 10-12 hours per charge.
It has a few cool features off the bike like tracking ride data and storing it on a website you can access later. Here is some info from a pickup ride from our local FB group last weekend:
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The interesting stuff related to this thread is that it has two additional (free) functions called LiveTrack and Incident Detection.
Before I ride off on the motorcycle, I just turn the Garmin 820 on and ride away. When I get over 3 mph, it detects that I'm riding and activates automatically. That immediately starts recording all my ride data and starts a new LiveTrack session. When a live track session starts, the Garmin app on my phone sends out two emails to two contacts that I've preset in there. So no matter where they are, they get an email on their phone that says I've started a ride.
If they open that email and click on the link inside, it will take them to an active map showing them where I started and where I am now. They can watch as I move along the map. Sometimes if I linger too long at a stop, I get a text asking if I'm ok
If I don't respond, they typically start driving to my stopped point on the map. One time on the bicycle, another rider and I got caught in a bad, pop up storm and before I could even call, help was already on the way to come get us thanks to this function.
The other function is Incident Detection, which theoretically goes off if you crash. This piece has been hit or miss for me. Sometimes when I crash, it does go off and then I have 30 seconds to cancel it before it sends a panic message to my contacts with my GPS coordinates. Other times, it misfires. I was riding through town the other day and kinda did a quick zig zag maneuver to pull into a parking spot on the side of the street and it went off. It kicks off a loud siren type noise on the computer and my phone and both start flashing. I was able to get it cancelled before the panic message went out.
Both of these functions are free, but they are dependent on phone network service. So if you are riding in an area where there is phone coverage, it works. If not, it doesn't. But if you ride out of a phone network, the tracking email map will still show the last place you were on the map. When you reenter phone space, it bridges the two points on the map and continues to track you going forward.
It's not perfect, but its a free service. I'm not sure I would buy a cycling computer just to have these functions, but since I already had one, I use it. Who am I kidding, I'm a data nerd, I love all the stats it provides and would probably buy another one