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With the XT you can use a track to help navigation - just load it into the XT from the Track Menu and select Go !

There is no spoken navigation given and no screen instructions - but you do get magenta track drawn on the screen. It looks like a route, but it will stay put and it will never be recalculated.

The Trip Data on the right side of the screen is restricted to showing stuff unrelated to the track ahead - except for two things. One is the total distance to the end of the track. The other is how far away the nearest point of the track is to your current position.

The screens below show me navigating on an-road track from which I deliberately deviated.

I think that these illustrate the XT behaviour better than words.

This clearly has its uses off road for riders and hikers. I was sceptical about how useful it would be on roads.

However, I found it quite liberating. No longer tied to following instructions at the whim of the recalculating gods, the original track remains intact and I can wander off route as I please. Like a paper map I can use the XT to find my way back again, aided by a few handy tools - not least of which is the ability to stop and zoom out to see the entire route.

It is well worth while loading a track to use in this way, and then deliberately riding different roads to see how it works.

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