Hey, I'm new Gold + Next Lifetime user from the Netherlands

[Luc Wijdeveld]

Let me introduce myself.
I am Luc and I live in Twente Hengelo (NL).
I have been riding a motorcycle since 1975 and touring & traveling were always my preferences in driving, making routes myself had my training in the truck where as an international truck driver I made the route for the next day every evening with a box full of street books and road maps of Europe. There were no navigation systems yet and so you made your own route book and wrote down all kinds of information on the way, which added to the driving for the next time and was the update.

I was there early as soon as the navigation made its entrance, after some experiences with different brands TomTom pleased me the most. I also drove in manure & bulk transport, where you had to load and unload at farmers. The transport company's Garmin was hopeless in this, where my own TT 6250 always brought me to the right locations, where there were no street names or road numbers, you had to unload in the middle of the unknown, exactly to the meter, because the 6250 did have the unpaved roads in their data system. With route making TT was a limitation because you had a limitation in points in routes. I used Garmin Basecamp to refine the route, but I find graphic Basecamp a program with the appearance of Windows 3.1.

I have had many motorcycles in my life, heavy and light motorcycles, I like to steer nicely on agricultural roads at home and abroad. Last year I went to Croatia, many back roads from routes that I made myself. My current motorcycle, the Honda NT700 Deauville is a nice, somewhat underrated steering & touring motorcycle for the general public and ideal because of the low weight, good storage options, only the case locks are crap.

Discovered MRA MyRoute a year ago and quickly decided to first go for the route planner for Gold Lifetime and recently also the Navigation Next Lifetime.
I drive more motorcycle kilometers than by car, I don't drive a truck anymore, I'm retired now.

I film while driving with 3x GoPro Hero 9 cameras (with the MediaMod) and an Insta360 X3. Just buy the cameras to take pictures and use the film material for editing in DaVinci Resolve in the winter. I'm still a bit behind in editing because I only have that program (the paid version) and technical English is not my native language.

I still use my TT Rider 550 on the motorcycle until the MyRoute app can take over.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Luc-Wijdeveld welcome to the Forum and the wonderful world of MRA.
I would say, dump the TT and discover all the possibilities of MRA on your tab
Have fun

[Jörgen]

Welcome to the nice forum.
My TT Rider is somewhere in the drawer.

[CD130]

Welcome to the world of MRA!! I switched from a Garmin Zumo myself a few years ago and really needed some time to get used to it. So give that some time and know that we are happy to help you here if you can't figure it out. In any case, your TT will soon be available on Marktplaats I'm curious about the videos you make with that beautiful setup. Do you have an example that you can share? Last year I switched from GoPro to DJI. No regrets to date, but that also took some getting used to

[Nick Carthew]

@Luc-Wijdeveld Welcome to the forum. Nice introduction As you’ll see from my forum signature, my Rider 500 is gathering dust in the cupboard.