Extra Heavy Duty Bike Computer

i guess any gps will be useful in some situations eg finding your way back to your camp in the dark - but as u are going 1 way N to S most of the time it will just give u lots of compass and bike computer type info and may eat thru batteries. Most gps use AAA or AA NIMh batteries so u can plug them into a wall charger every few days. I now use a v simple garmin foretrex that works for me ok (strapped around a bit of pipe foam wrap on the handlebar), but there are bigger colour screen mapping units that dont cost much more (in usa) eg lowrance. I travelled up from Cape town and the best places i went to (eg for wildlife or just having a look at something interesting) were way off the main roads and while i didnt have a gps then it would have saved me all kinds of trouble as i got lost and misdirected often. If u have a camera that uses aa batteries or sd card storage u can get gps to run same and work as a jpg viewer. The software is way behind the hardware. Uploading waypoints to a web based map will be v hard at internet places as they have low bandwidth +dont like things being wired up to their crappy computers. Mitchelin paper maps were pretty good - (except for not much elevation info). Let us know how the trip goes

Same, tried a few Cateye computers. Was all could get at the time. None worked for long
Tried a VDO, Didn't like the way it worked so much, when it worked. Found same as iik, stopped working too often.
Now use Sigma 800. Does all I need, and has worked faultless many trips/years. First had wireless model, worked great till it got stolen. Now use wire job, not so expensive to loose. If I have to replace it, it will be another Sigma, of any model, but probably same 800.

My current one is a Turbo pro and its been fine. I had on again off again troubles with cat eyes, but I'm not sure if it was becaue of Chinese soldier or Tibetan kids screwing around with it or if it was the unit itself.