OK, bear with me please. Thinking about indulging in a sat nav and the stumbling block is that I work in grid references.

I often start rides from laybys/odd places in the middle of nowhere so how am I supposed to find the relevant postcode?

Presumably sat navs are not clever enough to figure out postcodes from a grid reference?

Over to the awfully clever STW peeps 🙂

Thank you so much.

http://www.nearby.org.uk/conversions.cgi

Find a house or farm near to it and enter that postcode.

Get the right sat nav and you don't need a postcode.

My garmin will accept lat/lon references, easy enough to convert from OS grid references. Can also enter a destination by just browsing the map and then clicking on screen. Think some sat navs will let you enter OS grid refs too

Garmin and people like DHL use PONC codes – very handy for here in ireland where they don't have postcodes – might be of help to you.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=465500&y=166500&z=120&sv=burghfield+common&st=3&tl=Map+of+Burghfield+Common,+West+Berkshire+%5BCity/Town/Village%5D&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf

read the bottom of the screen, blue map border, if I were you I'd click

'Click here to convert coordinates '

Get a Garmin and use in conjuction with Memory Map/Fugawi?anquet.

Plan route on PC and download into Garmin.

You can also track a route on the Garmin and upload into Fugawi (what I use) and plot onto map.

Ooh, thanks very much for replies 8)

That 'nearby' linky is good, just tried that so success.

I thought the sat nav of choice was TomTom?

Which had the Garmins top in a test they did last month.