NAVIGATION ON A MOTORCYCLE Calimoto vs Garmin // DAY RIDE BRANDENGURG // KTM 1290 Super Adventure S

I used the Calimito smartphone navigation app to plan a day of scenic riding close to home in Brandenburg. This is not a proper review of all the functions nor a feature comparision to my standalone BMW Navigator V / Garmin unit. These are just a few thoughts on how the experience was using a simple smartphone app instead of a flagship navigation unit from Garmin.

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[awrebyawe]

Great drone shots 👍🏾 appreciate the work that must have gone into it!

[pascalruego]

Hi which helmet camera is it? thx. Great videos !!!!

[cosmo]

Drone imagines are awesome !!! Ride Safe !!

[schongemacht]

Hello, are you able to bring Calimoto to your Screen? I just bought the 2020 1290 S. The Navigation with the KTM App is working, but the app is just bad. I then tried to bring Calimoto to the screen, but even if it is connected, its not showing the direction signs.

[davidbathe]

Hi my German friend
Very informative as ever
I have to keep telling my self this guy is front Germany 🇩🇪 lol
And what a beautiful beautiful country Germany looks
Can’t wait to get some miles under my belt
once we can again
Stay safe my friend 🏍👻

[EarlOfMischief]

Thanks for the vid: Great shots! I've moved recently to Berlin, and actually have been using Calimoto to discover the region. On the free version, I think is adequate for "semi-short" trips, but it wouldn't meet my requirements for touring (for that I use TomTom). PS: you can load trips to TomTom as tracks, to (I think) get the behaviour you want. Enjoy the ride, and the weather we're having! :)

[P_R_Nick]

I've just downloaded riser app, I've yet to use it in real time but looks interesting.
That bike you have is a real sleeper now with sas looks and sar capabilities 👌👍

[guidokruck]

Ich sehe gerade das Du dein iPhone mit dem Touratech Halter betreibst. Hattest Du noch keine Schwierigkeiten mit dem Stabilisator der Kamera? Oder hast Du noch einen Schwingungsdämpfer dazwischen?
Grüße vom Schiffshebewerk Niederfinow 🙋‍♂️

[-ride-]

Da habt Ihr schon ein paar beachtliche Schlösser rumstehen ;-)

[JMeyer-qjpv]

Calimoto has some quirks, but it's my favorite nav for motorcycling. The website planner works well, and it's good at finding curvy routes. I usually want automatic rerouting, and on many occasions that has put me on interesting roads I would not have found otherwise. It gives really good voice turn instructions in my cardo headset so that I rarely miss a turn. I wish there was a way to give voice commands to Calimoto with my cardo setup, but I haven't found a way to do that. One command I'd like is "skip waypoint", because swiping on the screen to do that is cumbersome and Cali is pretty stubborn sometimes and will not figure out that you don't want to backtrack five miles for a waypoint you drove around.

[Elskins]

The only reason I am still using the slow and outdated NAV VI crap is because of the wonderwheel integration. If Garmin XT came with a handlebar buttons I would buy it in a heartbeat.

[sgraham]

I use calimoto too for short blasts and for route planing and just move the route line to use any road on the route on the screen of my phone .I also use tom tom phone app which I plot way points and set to non motorway routes, but not windy roads as for one route it was the windiest road through Wales including single tracks for 10 miles on a 1215 trophy luggage up and the wife on the back 😀didn't use windy routes again .

[NiK]

Kurvenwertung 13, hab ich noch nie gesehen in der App... Grüße aus München.

[FxRiderST]

Oh these European cosy towns with red roofs buildings... We don't have these in States.
Calimoto, Kurviger and others are good, but as I see it for me they can't replace the good'al native GPS. Plus to use them fully, you need monthly subscription which in the end will cost more than than Garmin.
Garmin XT is just $400 or buy used for less.
I'll be in Dresden and probably Berlin in September. If you can recommend interesting places around, much appreciated.

[ItsReallyEasy]

Hi!
I use a Garmin Zumo 396, and a friend has a BMW Navigator 5 or 6 not sure.
There are differences in software. It's very funny when, after loading the same track, at the crossroads, his navigator says - to the right, and mine - to the left!
And so all the time.
In my region (Latvia) Garmin has problems with maps of dirt roads. He may require you to wade the river, or drive through a plowed field. But this makes it even more fun.
My ZUMO overheated once, and turned off right in the middle of Wien. During rush hour. True, the cell phone in my pocket is also overheated.
To summarize - I use Garmin and am not going to change to mobile applications. I think so Mobile phones won't stand up to all the shit that goes on on dirt roads. 😊😎

[MrWheely]

ktm's myride app never used... easy to navigate from a to b. I also prefer to use waze moto... very easy and mobile speed camera control, accidents, speed cameras, traffic jams, everything comes on and works perfectly. but I also just use google maps, then I put my small tablet from samsung in my holder and everything via bluetooth conecten ... works great, so no WAY too expensive motorcycle navigation systems for me. but I do understand if you want to see everything within a few days, then you have to plan everything... which by the way is getting better through the examples I use..

[plguitars]

Schöner Vergleich. Ich hab fast identische Anforderungen, was Planung und Navigieren betrifft, erkenne da einen sehr ähnlichen Ansatz. :-) Ich bin mittlerweile bei nem Android-basierten System gelandet (Carpe Iter Pad), das das alles erfüllt. Die Planung ist Google-Maps-like mit Kurviger.de und Navigieren mit der zugehörigen App, bei der man die Neuberechnung ebenfalls ausschalten kann. Baustellenumfahrungen oder Umleitungen fahre ich genau so wie du nach Karte. Das geht mit dem 7" Bildschirm des Carpe Iter mega gut, vor allem mit der zugehörigen Fernbedienung am Lenker auch ganz easy mit einem Daumen. Kurviger hat auch die Verwendung von Shaping und Via-Points gut umgesetzt, das geht im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Apps eigentlich 1:1 wie bei Garmin. Ich hab meine geplante Route mit allen Punkten immer perfekt in der App. Dazu kommt noch ein Kurven-Algorithmus, der ähnlich wie bei Calimoto funktioniert. Dazu hab ich noch Locus Map Pro installiert, wenns dann mal in den Schotter geht und ich nach GPX Tracks fahre. Calimoto ist wie du sagst nett für Sonntagstouren, aber die Neuberechnung und die Abbiegehinweise haben mich wahnsinnig gemacht, definitiv nix für eine speziell geplante längere Tour.

[christiangreiner]

Grüß dich! Die modernen TomToms können das mitlerweile auch was du als Alleinstellungsmerkmal der Garmins anführst. 🤟🤟🤟

[quatron---]

Ill set the Zumo XT against the Nav6 any day every day ;) Much more powerfull.

[BoulderMTBR]

Garmin = 1999 technology. It’s really inexcusable how outdated their gear is. They are CRAP.