Tom Tom Rider

Sick and tired of getting lost in the back streets of Daytona? Can’t find the bikini clad babes on the board walk? You need the Tom Tom Rider.

Specifically developed for use on a motorcycle, the Tom Tom Rider is waterproof, has a biker friendly touch screen designed to be used when wearing gloves, comes with mounting hardware for almost any bike and has high quality in-helmet bluetooth voice instructions.

The scary thing is that you can also add friends to the Rider, and it will tell you where they are on the road, so no more stopping off for a beer while the missus is at home; if she’s got one too, she’ll know to within a few feet exactly where you are at all times. Oops. I don’t think Tom Tom were thinking of this particular application when they designed it, but any tech-savvy biker chick is going to see the possibilities immediately.

The technical specs are impressive though, and it did pass the Knowles destructo-test™, when I dropped it going down the road at forty miles an hour. That’ll teach me to leave well enough alone.

It looks good, is as tough as they say and most importantly, tells you where to go with a minimum of fuss. I’m not sure any self respecting Harley rider should be adding a piece of Dutch technology to his Fat Boy, but who knows?

More info from amazon.com:

•  TomTom ONE Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator
• TomTom Rider 2 GPS Navigator for Motorcycles and Scooters
• TomTom Rider 32MB GPS Navigator for Motorcycles and Scooters