Garmin Motorize

I have a Garmin Zumo XT. And this is exactly as that. (Familiar feel to it) For it to work first time this is what I did. On my 2024 Yamaha Tracer 9 GT+ and iPhone 15 pro max. 1. Connect phone Bluetooth to the Bike. Bike Bluetooth can be accessed from App- settings. 2. Open My Ride Link app on phone and add the bike again (Bluetooth.). You will need to click the My ride link section in settings of bike. ( follow on bike instructions) Can be accessed via App-settings-connections. 3. In App- Settings of Bike. Connect to bike WiFi hotspot. This has to be done only once. Make sure in your WiFi settings on the phone you select auto connect. Sometimes even if you enter the right password it says wrong password entered. Just click cancel and click join. It will connect. 4. On My Ride Link app click Garmin Motorize at the bottom. 5. It will ask you to download Garmin Motorize app. 6. Download the app. 7. Open it follow on screen instructions, select subscription and the. You get message “Connect to bike via usb cable to validate/authorise” 8. Make sure you use a good quality data cable. A cheap one will not work as most cheap ones are just charging cable and not data transfer cable. 9. Once cable connected. App immediately recognises the device and the app is activated. 10. Cable can now be disconnected. You only need to use it once. 11. Long press the home button and the maps open. Remember the Bluetooth module on the bike starts quickly but the WiFi module takes couple of minutes. So far worked flawlessly. It’s £550 for the Zumo XT2. And £33 per year for this app. I think it’s a good deal.

Ridiculous unintuitive and almost pointless.

Disconnect very frequently while your driving so it's useless

So clunky to use. Pretty much impossible to set a route you want to go on. Can’t understand why it’s so poor in 2024.

Works fine but sold my bike now and can’t see how to cancel the subscription

Expensive subscription, unreliable connection, slow and difficult navigation. Reading Garmin’s answers they believe that everything is user error or usb cable issue. One day it works okay, next day it won’t connect at all via wifi. Pointless to pay for it when google maps and apple maps are free and reliable. Garmin was great ones but it is the last on the list now. Wouldn’t use it even for free anymore. Carplay would make more sense on an expensive motorbike

I tried SIX different USB-A to USB-C leads but could not connect the phone to the bike to authenticate. Please update the app to work with latest iPhones !!!

Connection is absolutely terrible, difficult to set a route, don’t know if I am using it incorrect but to me a complete and utter waste of money. Sort this very poor app out. Back to the bar mounter TomTom rider 550 for me.

Literally spent hours trying to set this up on a brand new TMax, just will not set up, even the bike shop can get it connected. Very disappointing one of the reasons I bought the bike.

Doesn’t work! You can’t enter a postcode on fly or on bike keyborad doesn’t pop up, had it 6months could never get it to connect to sena headset, every time you stop bike it disconnects. After contacting Garmin help there not really interested. Total waste of money for subscription. Back to using Tom Tom on handlebars.