Physical Hardware and Screen Engineering

The environment of an adventure bike cockpit requires screens that survive baking in desert sun, freezing mountain rain, and heavy glove strikes.

Garmin Zumo XT2

The Screen: A 6.0-inch HD multi-touch glass screen pushing 1,050 nits of brightness. It uses standard high-brightness TFT tech with a white backlight. It features dual-orientation software, allowing you to mount it vertically (excellent for seeing further down a route) or horizontally.

Rugged Armor: Built to MIL-STD-810 drop-test ratings. It carries an IPX7 water rating,    meaning it easily survives pouring rain storms, but shouldn’t be blasted at point-blank range with a high-pressure car wash wand.

Battery Life: Runs on a internal lithium-ion battery giving up to 6 hours of life—but if cranked to 100% brightness to fight the midday sun, it drops closer to 3.5 hours.

Garmin Zumo XT3

The Screen: Introduces a massive choice in form factors. You can choose the traditional 6.0-inch screen or a minimalist 4.7-inch version. Both resolutions are high-definition (1280 x 720 pixels), rendering incredibly crisp vector maps.

The Post-Mount Advantage: The 4.7-inch model includes special M8 post-mounting hardware. This allows the unit to bolt directly to your bike’s top handlebar clamps or rally towers via rigid thread bolts, minimizing screen shaking compared to long rubber-isolated arm mounts.

Battery Life: Efficiency has improved drastically. Despite the faster performance, the XT3 achieves up to 7 hours of total run time, and holds out for a full 5 hours even with the backlight pinned at 100% capacity.

Garmin Tread 2

The Screen: It is built around a robust, 6.15″ W x 3.5″ H x 1″ glove friendly screen.

Extreme Silt Armor: Carries a higher IP6X dust rating combined with IPX7 moisture defense. This makes it impervious to microscopic, abrasive trail dust or silt that can clog buttons and speaker meshes on standard electronics.

Magnetic Locking Mount: Uses a heavy-duty locking, magnet-assisted power dock. It snaps in place with extreme magnetic force, and then a physical lever locks it down so it cannot vibrate loose even on washboard dirt trails.

Battery Life: The Garmin Tread 2 provides up to 7 hours of battery life on the 6-inch model, dropping to a maximum of 5 hours if you lock the high-brightness screen at 100% capacity to battle direct sunlight. The larger 8-inch Overland configuration draws a bit more power, offering up to 6 hours at half brightness and down to 1 hour if pushed continuously at full brightness.

Satellites, Signal Accuracy, and Compute Brains

When you ride under heavy tree canopies, through slot canyons, or next to steep mountain cliffs, regular GPS chips lose signal or “drift” your position into nearby rivers or cliffs.

Garmin Zumo XT2

The Satellite Engine:Uses standard 10 Hz Multi-GNSS positioning tracking. It samples your location roughly 10 times a second using standard GPS and Galileo networks.

Storage capacity: Comes with 32 GB of internal space, which is enough for standard continental street maps and a few regional topo files, expandable up to 256 GB via microSD.

Garmin Zumo XT3

The Satellite Engine: Houses a revolutionary 25 Hz Multi-GNSS processor. This updates your absolute placement 25 times per second. When carving canyons at 60 mph, the map glides with absolute smoothness. Your vehicle icon never lags behind your physical position, and direction indicators never spin out when you stop.

Storage capacity: Bumped up to 64 GB internal storage, giving you double the room for massive geographical files out of the box.

Garmin Tread 2

The Satellite Engine: Utilizes a highly stable 10 Hz Multi-GNSS array. However, it features a special connection port for an External GPS Antenna. If you have a large rally fairing or luggage blocking your view of the sky, you can run a wire to a remote puck on your tail rack for a clear satellite signal.

Storage capacity: The Garmin Tread 2 comes equipped with 64 GB of internal storage out of the box, offering plenty of native room to hold its massive preloaded library of Forest Service trails and public land boundaries. If you want to download extensive high-resolution satellite imagery or thousands of custom GPX tracks, you can expand that capacity by adding a microSD card up to 256 GB.

Mapping Ecosystem & Trail Intelligence

Garmin Tread 2

Preloaded Land Boundaries: Natively comes with full U.S. Public Land Boundaries (BLM land, National Forest borders) and Private Land Parcel Maps for sections larger than 4 acres. For adventure riders who love primitive, dispersed wild camping, this lets you instantly check if you are legally allowed to set up camp on a patch of dirt.

USFS Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM): Includes complete, preloaded Forest Service maps. This tells you exactly which dirt trails are open specifically to motorcycles, ATVs, or full-sized 4×4 vehicles, keeping you clear of illegal wilderness trails.

Trail Difficulty Ratings: Uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data to apply color-coded difficulty metrics directly to dirt paths so you don’t accidentally try to ride a 600-pound adventure bike down an intense, boulder-filled single-track.

GPS Track Management & Behavior

Garmin Zumo XT2: The Collection Manager

The Zumo XT2 handles tracks using a system of “Collections”. When you import a multi-day BDR file via the phone app, you must organize the tracks, waypoints, and alternate routes into distinct folders to avoid overwhelming the map screen.

The Conversion Trap: The XT2 often tries to automatically convert an imported off-road track (a static, unchangeable string of breadcrumbs) into a route (which provides spoken turn-by-turn directions). On asphalt, this is great. On dirt, if the unit recalculates your route because it doesn’t recognize an unmapped trail, it can aggressively reroute you back toward major highways, throwing off your entire itinerary.

Best Practice: On the XT2, experienced riders disable automatic route recalculation and configure the raw track to show up as a high-visibility colored overlay (e.g., bright pink or neon green) to follow visually, rather than relying on spoken prompts.

Garmin Zumo XT3: The High-Speed Vector Handler

The Zumo XT3 uses a streamlined data architecture that separates “Tracks” (off-road breadcrumbs) from “Routes” (turn-by-turn guidance) much more cleanly than its predecessor.

Visual Route Planner: The XT3 features a refreshed on-device “Visual Route Planner”. If you are riding a custom GPX track and hit a sudden roadblock (like a wildfire closure or a washed-out bridge), you can tap the screen to drop a new point and shape a diversion route directly over the top of your custom file.

Render Performance: Thanks to its upgraded internal processor, the XT3 can display dozens of highly detailed, thousands-of-points-long GPX tracks simultaneously without causing the map to stutter or freeze when you zoom out to look at the day’s horizon.

Garmin Tread 2: The Direct Track Navigator

Because the Tread 2 is an off-road native, it doesn’t try to force your backcountry tracks into street-style navigation constraints.

Navigate-a-Track: Features a built-in function called Navigate-a-Track. When you load a raw, unstructured GPX file, the Tread 2 generates a clean directional compass indicator and off-road distance calculations along the path of that track, even if the line cuts through areas completely unrecognized by standard road maps.

Offline Independence: If you change your plans deep in the woods where you have zero cell service, the Tread 2 allows you to select any recorded track on the screen and invert it (Track Back) or slice it into segments directly on the device. It completely bypasses the need to sync with a smartphone app to clean up your data in the field.

Quick Comparison: Track Capabilities

Zumo XT2: Best for loading pre-planned routes. It requires a bit of menu digging to turn off street recalculations when riding raw off-road tracks.

Zumo XT3: Offers seamless, lag-free rendering of massive GPX files. It makes on-the-fly modifications to custom tracks smooth and intuitive using the on-screen visual planner.

Tread 2: Exceptional for pure track following. Its software treats raw dirt tracks as primary data, giving you distance metrics and direction pointers over track lines that cross open terrain with zero road data.

Peripheral Connections

Your navigation unit acts as the main control tower for your communication, safety, and power setups.

Garmin Zumo XT2

Group Ride Mobile: Uses your cell phone’s data connection via the Tread app to track your riding buddies on your screen in real time. If you lose cell service, however, the tracking drops out unless you buy a separate long-range physical Group Ride Radio antenna module.

Garmin Zumo XT3

Zumo R1 Radar Link: This is a major software upgrade. It connects over ANT+ wireless to Garmin’s R1 Rearview radar unit. When cars approach from behind on high-speed asphalt lanes, the side of your GPS screen lights up with color alerts tracking the vehicle’s closing speed.

Rider Telemetry: Works with built-in accelerometers to save a digital footprint of your cornering dynamics (lean angles) and braking forces, which can be shared via the phone app afterward.

Garmin Tread 2

Garmin PowerSwitch Integration: Natively links to Garmin’s digital 12V switch box. This lets you wire up auxiliary fog lights, heated grips, or horn upgrades to a control box, and turn them on or off digitally using macro buttons on your GPS touchscreen.

Group Ride Radio Native Build: Optimized to accept physical VHF/UHF radio antennas directly. This enables tracking and voice communication with other Tread users over miles of wilderness completely independent of cell service towers.

Pros and Cons:

Garmin Zumo XT2

PROS: + Excellent value for money; premium features without the latest generation price markup. + Superb, ultra-bright 6-inch screen that works flawlessly in direct sunlight. + Highly intuitive “Adventurous Routing” sliders for fun pavement and gravel detours. + Slim profile fits cleanly on standard adventure motorcycle handlebars.

CONS: – Off-road topographic mapping is basic; lacks preloaded public/private land borders. – Plastic snap-in mount can wear at the pin connections over years of heavy off-road dust. – Standard 10 Hz refresh rate can lag slightly during rapid, tight switchback turns.

Garmin Zumo XT3

PROS: + Blistering 25 Hz refresh rate completely eliminates map lag and icon drifting. + The 4.7-inch model is an exceptional option for minimalist dual-sport and rally setups. + Rear-facing radar support (via Zumo R1) significantly increases highway safety. + Captures advanced telemetry like lean angle and G-forces for post-ride analysis.

CONS: – Expensive entry point ($499 to $599 depending on size). – Advanced track features (lap timers, drag metrics) are locked behind a monthly fee. – Focus leans heavily toward street performance rather than hardcore wilderness mapping.

Garmin Tread 2

PROS: + Preloaded public land boundaries (BLM) and USFS MVUM maps make wild camping easy. + IP67 silt-proof rating handles deep mud, sandstorms, and pressure washing easily. + Magnetic-assist locking mount is incredibly secure on aggressive off-road terrain. + Native integration with 2-way radios and digital accessory switch boxes.

CONS: – Thick, and heavy chassis can be clunky. – Included mounting hardware is biased toward UTV/ATV roll cages rather than handlebars. – Lacks pavement-focused motorcycle software like “Adventurous Routing” or lean tracking.

Which One Should You Buy?

Buy the Garmin Zumo XT2 if…

You want the best balance of price and performance for 50/50 riding. If your adventures consist of riding highways out to the countryside, seeking out winding asphalt backroads, and tackling established gravel forestry roads, the Zumo XT2 is the logical choice. It gives you an excellent, high-brightness screen and great road-routing tools without making you pay for advanced racetrack telemetry or rugged overlanding hardware you won’t use.

Buy the Garmin Zumo XT3 if…

You ride a lighter dual-sport, want maximum tech, or commute on busy highways. The XT3 is the premium choice for two distinct types of riders. First, if you ride a lightweight dual-sport or aggressive adventure bike (like a KTM 500 or Yamaha T7) and want a small, indestructible navigation setup, the 4.7-inch XT3 bolted directly to your bar clamps is unmatched. Second, if you spend long hours on multi-lane interstates to reach your riding zones, the ability to pair a rear-facing blind-spot radar directly to your dashboard is a massive safety upgrade.

Buy the Garmin Tread 2 if…

You are a dedicated dirt purist and backcountry explorer. If your idea of adventure riding means loading up soft luggage to tackle multi-day Backcountry Discovery Routes (BDRs), hunting for legal dispersed camping on BLM land, navigating tight OHV trails, and dropping your bike in mud or silt, buy the Tread 2. Its preloaded Forest Service trail maps, land-ownership borders, and ultra-rugged IP67 chassis make it a dedicated piece of survival equipment rather than just a digital map.

If you still want to talk about GPS options for your motorcycle, feel free to call a Touratech Adventure Expert at 1.800.491.2926 or go to touratech-usa.com to chat with us.

We have extensive experience with satellite phones and communication devices on motorcycle adventures. From riding Backcountry Discover Routes and remote loops at the Touratech Rally, we’ve had to rely on satellite communications to rescue injured riders and busted up machines more times than we can count. The current devices from Garmin are among the best we’ve ever used, and they are now on sale!

The Garmin inReach Mini 2 (Left) and the Garmin Messenger Plus(Right) are built to keep riders connected when it matters most. The inReach Mini 2 is the compact, durable choice for adventurers who value minimalist gear without compromising capability. It provides two-way text messaging, real-time GPS tracking, and SOS functionality via the global Iridium® satellite network.

The Garmin Messenger Plus, on the other hand, adds a layer of next-generation messaging power to the off-grid experience. While it shares the same satellite backbone, it stands out with its ability to send not only text, but photo and audio messages—a game-changer for sharing your experience or conveying critical information. It intelligently routes your messages via Wi-Fi, cellular, or satellite, always choosing the fastest available option. Designed with seamless integration into your smartphone, the Messenger Plus excels at keeping you connected to groups, sharing your location, and communicating with richer detail—even when you’re miles from civilization.

Both devices are made to go wherever you do. Choose the inReach Mini 2 for stripped-down reliability and a rugged form factor. Opt for the Messenger Plus if you want enhanced communication options, media messaging, and intelligent connectivity that adapts to your environment.

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This class is an in-depth, deep dive into the Zumo XT2. Get your GPS Unit out and get better at motorcycle travel today!

The new Zumo XT2 Motorcycle Navigator from Garmin is a fantastic tool for the hardcore traveler or the weekend warrior. It’s an updated and larger screened version of the popular Garmin Zumo XT Motorcycle Navigator.

GPS expert and rider of all things with two-wheels, Eric Archambault is Touratech’s “Go To Pro” when it comes to navigation training. 

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Eric Archambault is one of the original members of the Touratech-USA race team, with an impressive second place finish in the Adventure Bike class at the 2014 Stumpjumper abroad a KTM 950 Adventure. His love for two-wheeled racing spans many disciplines, from west coast desert racing to east coast hare scrambles, navigation rallies to minimoto racing. He now lives in New Hampshire where his riding is focused on running laps on the woods course in his backyard and racing vintage Vespas and obscure European minibike at local kart tracks.

Screen Size

As mentioned above the Zumo XT2 features a larger 6” screen, in contrast to the Zumo XT’s 5-1/2” screen. Both are glove friendly, high definition, glass style screens, the modern standard that was introduced on the Zumo XT. After spending almost a decade relying on a Garmin Montana 600 with an almost industrial resolution 4” screen, both of these screens seem huge and modern to me. Honestly if they aren’t side by side I can’t tell the difference at a casual glance.

Power Cradle Wiring

While both cradles use the same plastic mount, and both the Zumo XT and Zumo XT2 will fit either, the power delivered has changed. This is worth noting if you are upgrading, you will want to swap your Zumo XT cradle for the Zumo XT2 cradle. Since the Zumo XT2 uses a 12 volt battery there is no longer a small box on the wiring loom to drop the power down to the lower voltage of the Zumo XT. This will allow easier and cleaner wiring into the motorcycle, especially if you are just adding a power plug to move the cradle between motorcycles. 

Smartphone Integration 

This is where the biggest change has been made. On the phone side of things Garmin’s “Tread” app replaces the “Drive” app used on the Zumo XT. The “Drive” app was basically just installed on your phone to provide the connection to your phone’s wireless network and other smartphone integration (music and calls most notably), there wasn’t much you could do on the app itself. The “Tread” app is also used by Garmin’s other off-road motor vehicle GPS units (the Overland and Tread), and provides many features found in Garmin’s “Explore” app that is used by many of Garmin’s current handheld GPS units and fitness watches. Saved tracks, waypoints, and routes can be shown or hidden, modified, and created, then these changes will be pushed to the GPS unit. Basically this is mirroring the functions you can do on the Zumo XT2 unit itself. While Garmin has made huge improvements over the last decade making their GPS units more user friendly, almost everyone is going to be more comfortable and quicker making changes on their phone.

Software

Overall the basic operating system seems to be the same between the two units, with some menu changes. Garmin has added more notes within menus and more shortcuts to different menus, nothing is more than a few clicks away on the Zumo XT2. One of the big changes I noticed was the lack of “Ride Modes” or “Profiles” on the Zumo XT2. I suspect this was a feature not used by many in the past, and even less with most cars having their own integrated navigations systems and folks no longer moving one GPS between their motorcycle and car. Personally I did use this function quite a lot, probably from my time on older units that required maps to be switched depending on what I was doing. That being said the Zumo XT2 has a lot of shortcuts to make map layer changes and routing changes, I can’t say the lack of “Ride Modes” is a major detraction.

Track, Route & Waypoint Management

The Zumo XT uses the familiar system of management for tracks, routes, and waypoints, with separate managers for each. This has been Garmin’s system since the earliest handheld GPS units that I used (the GPSMap60) almost twenty years ago, and still is used for Garmin’s handheld GPS units such as the Montana 700 series. 

By using the Tread app on the phone side of things (as mentioned above), on the Zumo XT2 the management of tracks, routes, and waypoints are all done using the “Explore” tool on the GPS unit. There are still separate shortcuts with the traditional names that also bring you to same “Explore” tool. A neat function of the “Explore” tool is all of the tracks, routes, and waypoints can be placed into “Collections” similar to how you can in Garmin Basecamp on the computer. These collections can then be show or hidden as a group, making it very convenient to declutter your map of planned trip data when you don’t need it shown.

The only downside of the “Explore” tool is that individual tracks and waypoints can’t be shown or hidden, only collections have that option. While this is great for big trips, such as one of the many epic Backcountry Discovery Routes, it did take some getting used to for smaller one-off things. I worked around this by making a collection just for showing select tracks and waypoints, and moving them into and out of that collection as needed, much the same way I used to select to show or hide tracks and waypoints individually. Depending how you currently use your track and waypoint managers this may not be an issue for you. Honestly for me, it was just a slight rethinking of my methods for the small things, and I was able to really leverage the “collection” based show and hide for bigger trips and projects.

The new version is available in the same Bare Aluminum, Silver Anodized, and Black Anodized finishes as before.

Group Ride

During my testing I didn’t have the opportunity to ride with someone else using a Zumo XT2, so was unable to use this feature. For years a feature like this has been a campfire wish at Touratech Rallies for use on group rides. I know Garmin has offered a similar feature in the past, and has been using the Tread app on other platforms for a few years now, I suspect they came through with a well designed tool.

Closing

Both the Zumo XT and Zumo XT2 are great GPS units, and the difference is more than skin deep. Garmin definitely increased the smartphone integration on the Zumo XT2 with the one-two punch of the Tread app on the phone and the Explore tool on the GPS. I suspect we’ll see this pairing further mature and have increased capabilities as time goes on. The Zumo XT is the ultimate iteration of the classic Zumo platform in terms of off-road navigation due to its large, modern screen. Users of previous generation Zumo GPS units will be at home with the familiar track and waypoint mangers and functions. 

When selecting between the two the question I’d ask would be if the new features the Zumo XT2 offers are something you are interested in, would use, and are willing to spend the time to learn. If you don’t like change the Zumo XT is there, and has a very comparable screen, but with the menus and mangers you already know. 

You can learn how to use your Zumo XT and/or Zumo XT2 in one of our GPS Immersion Classes Here.

Eric Archambault is one of the original members of the Touratech-USA race team, with an impressive second place finish in the Adventure Bike class at the 2014 Stumpjumper abroad a KTM 950 Adventure. His love for two-wheeled racing spans many disciplines, from west coast desert racing to east coast hare scrambles, navigation rallies to minimoto racing. He now lives in New Hampshire where his riding is focused on running laps on the woods course in his backyard and racing vintage Vespas and obscure European minibike at local kart tracks.

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This GPS bracket bar from Touratech gives you a solid attachment point on your BMW F850GS / ADV or F750GS for any one of our locking GPS mounts. Gone are the days of trying to read shaky GPS screens or dealing with broken plastic pieces.

Made of stainless steel and anodized aluminum, this handlebar mounting adapter is built to go the distance. The GPS mount adapter provides a sturdy 12mm (1/2 inch) diameter mounting bar that is intended for mounting any of our locking GPS mounts.

It can also be used for roadbook holders or any other device that uses a 1/2″ clamp. This mount will require longer bolts if you plan on installing it along with handlebar risers. If you have 20mm risers, please order part 082-5411. For 35mm risers, please order part # 082-5412.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Hello, Ian here with Touratech-USA. This is going to be a quick introduction and installation video of the Touratech GPS Bracket Adapter that fits on the BMW F 850 GS, F 850 GS Adventure and F 750 GS. This is a part that’s designed specifically to allow you to mount one of our Touratech locking mounts or a cell phone holder or really anything that you can adapt to this 12 millimeter crossbar. It’s going to put it on the motorcycle above the instruments to get it closer into your line of sight while you’re riding.

It creates kind of an unsafe situation if you have to constantly look down at your handle bars to take a look at your GPS, find the way that you’re trying to ride, et cetera. This is a part that’s made specifically for these bikes specifically for this purpose. I’m going to explain how to install it here on our F 850 GS, so let’s get to the bike and get to work.

The first step is to go onto the website and actually download the instructions for this piece. There are enough small pieces in this that I think it really helps to get all the things assembled correctly. What I’ve done here is I’ve preassembled the actual bracket itself, and this is made up of four different pieces. The bottom piece here is one piece. Then you’ve got these two arms here are two separate pieces, and then you have the crossbar at the top, which is its own fourth piece.

The way you do that is you start by assembling the crossbar at the top. You use two of the shorter button head bolts. These ones are 12 millimeters long, put thread locker on both of these, and then screw this together so that the arms bend in toward the crossbar. Then, once you have that assembled loosely, then you put the arms onto the base piece here. All four of these bolts are the same. They are button head 14 millimeter, and you use two washers with each one, one washer on the outside, one washer on the inside, and then a Nyloc nut here on the inside.

With this bracket, you’ll see I have the bend facing toward me right here, and you want the arm brackets to be bent away from you when this bottom piece is bent toward you. This is one of the things that the instructions do a really good job of depicting. Again, please print out the instructions, have them with you when you’re assembling this so you only have to do it once. These bolts use a four millimeter Allen wrench to tighten them. This here uses a 10 millimeter spanner wrench. Now that we’ve got this piece assembled, we’re going to remove the windscreen from the motorcycle. On our bike, we have the Touratech Tall Touring Windscreen, and this uses Torx T-25 fasteners, four of them.

Now that we have the windscreen removed, we have to take off this cover right here. It’s held on with two push pin body clips. I’ve already opened this one up. The way that you open these guys is to actually pry the head away. What that does is it allows this piece to collapse and then you can pull it right out. The correct tool to do this is a small pry bar for doing body clips. If you don’t have one of those, you can do it with a screwdriver. Don’t have to worry too much about putting marks on this, because we are not going to be reusing this piece.

With this cover out of the way, now we can remove the four T-30 bolts that hold the whole windscreen mount in place. This is as far as you’re going to have to disassemble the bike at this point. If you are going to be running power wires up to your GPS, I highly recommend doing it right now. You’ve got good access here above the headlight to run wires up the backside and then you can snake them up the arms of this GPS mount. We’re not going to do that on this bike because we swap GPSes around a lot, so we have a power cable up on the handlebars.

Our next step is to take the windscreen bracket that we just removed and the Touratech GPS bracket here and put it on the backside and just run the four bolts through it. These bolts aren’t holding anything in place. It’s just going to get sandwiched here against the motorcycle, so we’ll put that in right now.

Now we have this part securely mounted, we’ve got the windscreen bracket bolted back on, before we throw the windscreen on this bike, I highly recommend taking this chance to install the GPS bracket. It’s much, much easier to reach the bolts on the backside of this when the windscreen is not in place. I’m going to mount the GPS bracket on here and then sit on the motorcycle. When I have access to these four bolts here, I’m going to make sure that I adjust the height and I’m happy with where it’s positioned before I throw the windscreen back on.

My personal recommendation on mounting position here is to get the GPS mount as low as possible without blocking any of the warning lights on the instrument cluster. For this bike here, for this F 850 and me personally at my height, I found that I’m just a little bit below the halfway height, so right in the middle and then down just a hair. That’s where I like it personally. Your mileage may vary, find what works best for you. Now that the mounting position is finalized, the GPS locking mount is in place, and the windscreen bracket is bolted back on securely, it’s time to remount the windscreen on the motorcycle and we’ll be all done.

All right, the installation is finished and here’s a nice rider’s eye view of what the cockpit now looks like. You can see we’ve got that GPS locking mount right above the instrument cluster in the center. It’s easy to look at without taking your eyes off the road.

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The Touratech locking GPS mount for the Garmin Zumo XT navigators provides the ultimate in security and vibration protection for your GPS while on any motorcycle adventure. Enjoy peace of mind walking away from your motorcycle knowing that the Touratech locking mount secures your expensive GPS unit to the bike when you run into a store or restaurant.

The Zumo XT GPS mount also incorporates anti-vibration dampers to protect your GPS unit from harsh vibrations. This mount is perfect for both street touring or off-road riding on a dual-sport or adventure motorcycle.

This locking GPS cradle can be mounted in either landscape or portrait orientation on a 1/2″ cross bar, or with using RAM mount components. Have questions about GPS units on motorcycles? Give us a call, or hit us on chat. Our Adventure Experts are standing by to help you get the right solution for your motorcycle.

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The new Zumo XT Motorcycle Navigator from Garmin is a fantastic tool for the hardcore traveller or the weekend warrior.

It’s full of great new features with the reliability and innovation we’ve come to expect from Garmin.

GPS expert and rider of all things with two-wheels, Eric Archambault is Touratech’s “Go To Pro” when it comes to navigation training. This class is an in-depth, deep dive into the Zumo XT. Get your GPS Unit out and get better at motorcycle travel today!

Eric Archambault is one of Touratech-USA’s Adventure Experts and an original member of the Touratech-USA race team. Eric finished 2nd in the Adventure Bike class at the 2014 Desert 100 aboard a KTM 950 Adventure. His love for two-wheeled racing spans many disciplines, from west coast desert racing to east coast hare scrambles, navigation rallies to mini-moto racing. He is currently focused on all things GPS, running laps on the woods course in his backyard, and racing vintage Vespas and obscure European mini-bikes at local kart tracks. 

Check out his mechanical adventures and other GPS musings at www.Six-Zero-Three.com  

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