hrbeta
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Hello fellow Spyder-riders. Just want to share my iPhone usage experience when it comes to riding my 2011 RS.
I have the RAM iPhone holder on the right side of my handle bar; I also ran an iPhone power cable, from the 12v power outlet in my front trunk to the phone's tray. I can listen to my music, make/receive phone calls via the Sena SMH-10 Bluetooth system installed on my helmet. It works real well
As for riding apps, I created a folder called "Riding" in my iPhone to have all the related programs together. These are the apps I have in this group:
- GPS Drive by MotionX, $2.99 @ the App Store is very user friendly, accurate, talks to you via Bluetooth and the price is very reasonable.
- MapQuest, free @ the AS I use as a GPS backup and to find merchants and services.
- MapMyTracks, $0.99, is incredible to make maps of the route you are traveling. It'll keep a record of all your trips, denoting speed, distance traveled, time on the road, dates, etc. You can export the data and share/follow other fellow riders. It will even calculated the calories you are burning on your comfy RT
- Greatest Motorcycle Roads, free, is wonderful. A growing data base of users-up-loaded road/trip's info which you can share, edit, add to. I like this one a lot.
- MyRadar, is a free weather app which cuts through all the BS and displays a CURRENT radar image of your location and the rain situation around it.
- I'm Right Here, is a free app that will very fast and easily text message or email a map of your current position. Great to meet fellow riders or to locate you if you run into problems.
- AroundMe, free, scans for businesses and services in your immediate position, much like MapQuest but easier and faster to use.
- Google Earth, free, I like to use this one to visually familiarize myself with my immediate surrounding when in areas that I've never been before.
Now, once I have spent all the time needed to connect to the network, to figure out how to use the apps, to get a useful response from them and to be able to convert that response into a sensible action, I merrily continue to enjoy my ride - ROFL
Cheers.
I have the RAM iPhone holder on the right side of my handle bar; I also ran an iPhone power cable, from the 12v power outlet in my front trunk to the phone's tray. I can listen to my music, make/receive phone calls via the Sena SMH-10 Bluetooth system installed on my helmet. It works real well

As for riding apps, I created a folder called "Riding" in my iPhone to have all the related programs together. These are the apps I have in this group:
- GPS Drive by MotionX, $2.99 @ the App Store is very user friendly, accurate, talks to you via Bluetooth and the price is very reasonable.
- MapQuest, free @ the AS I use as a GPS backup and to find merchants and services.
- MapMyTracks, $0.99, is incredible to make maps of the route you are traveling. It'll keep a record of all your trips, denoting speed, distance traveled, time on the road, dates, etc. You can export the data and share/follow other fellow riders. It will even calculated the calories you are burning on your comfy RT

- Greatest Motorcycle Roads, free, is wonderful. A growing data base of users-up-loaded road/trip's info which you can share, edit, add to. I like this one a lot.
- MyRadar, is a free weather app which cuts through all the BS and displays a CURRENT radar image of your location and the rain situation around it.
- I'm Right Here, is a free app that will very fast and easily text message or email a map of your current position. Great to meet fellow riders or to locate you if you run into problems.
- AroundMe, free, scans for businesses and services in your immediate position, much like MapQuest but easier and faster to use.
- Google Earth, free, I like to use this one to visually familiarize myself with my immediate surrounding when in areas that I've never been before.
Now, once I have spent all the time needed to connect to the network, to figure out how to use the apps, to get a useful response from them and to be able to convert that response into a sensible action, I merrily continue to enjoy my ride - ROFL
Cheers.