Obviously the person who wrote this review is a non-rider!
The fact the battery life is only 3 hrs… since when is that a big deal on a motorcycle?? Most of us that ride bikes the gps is mounted and since the zumo comes with the wiring harness for direct power who cares about battery life?! 3 hrs is more then enough time when in a hotel room to plan your next days adventure (plus many of us carry a mini-laptop and the zumo comes with a map creator so your not using the zumo anyway except to export the map to the zumo).
If you take the zumo from the bike to the car – there is an external cable to plug into the zumo and into your cigarette lighter, so again, who cares about battery life?
As far as them doing away with MS Direct — GOOD! It was only BETA anyway and most of us knew it wasn’t going to last so why buy a device with it?
Although this review I just did sounds like it, I am *not* a Garmin fan… (although I do own the Zumo 550) BUT, I will give kudo’s to Garmin for listening to their customer base when everyone complained that the 650 removed XM information (which was replaced with MS Direct).
Kudo’s Garmin for being one of the few companies that actually DO listen to their customer base!!