Discussion: POLL:MTB Map boards / Win free Schwag!!

I will send a some team Tecnu sponsors' Schwag out to a random picked handful of the people that respond. Thanks!!

What brand MTB map board holder do you use (or how you hold your map on the MTB for navigation races)?
Where did you get it from?
Where do you live?

Thanks,
Kyle

auto pilot
europe, but soon to be available in usa
usa

I use the Auto Pilot board.
Originally got it from Radovan in Czech Republic but now they supply them in Australia through wildfire sports.

Live in Perth, Australia

Homebuilt out of corrugated plastic (same one I use for canoe-O, with a slightly different mounting).
Massachusetts, USA

AutoPilot. They sponsor USA MTBO and they are great!
USA.

I use the Auto Pilot board.
Originally got it from Radovan in Czech Republic but now they supply them in Australia through wildfire sports.

Live in Perth, Australia

Nordenmark skiO map holder.
Got it online from Berman.
Live in Truckee CA

I use the Auto Pilot board.
Originally got it from Boltboi who got it from Radovan in Czech Republic but now they supply them in Australia through wildfire sports.

Live in Perth, Australia

Surely you have seen the AR Navigation Supplies board that several of us in BAOC use, Kyle. I got mine from Scarborough Orienteering. But I'll reply anyway, in hopes of getting some of that schwag!

Intrepid
o-store.ca
NY, USA

I use the Auto Pilot board.
Originally got it through wildfire sports.

Live in Perth, Australia

Where did you get it from after that?

Miry
Somewhere in England
You know where I live.

AutoPilot map boards are sold through Orienteering USA to help raise funds for the US MTBO Team, as well as to support the growth of MTBO nationwide. All information is here:

http://www.orienteeringusa.org/us-teams/mountain-b...

AutoPilot
It was a Christmas gift from my ex-wife.
Newark, Delaware, USA

AxisGear Nav360 (because I don't break mine as often as tRicky)
Bought online about 5 years ago, either from Axis or a distributor.
Perth, Australia with the rest of the cool kids.

The rest of the cool kids have moved onto Autopilot!! Maybe with your new (secondhand borrowed) bike you will have an excuse to upgrade. See you at Banyowla.

You have to use it to be able to break it.

I use a Tony Whittaker home made board and it works for me, am I a cool kid?

I live in Perth OZ

I used to have one of those but it finally wore out after I think the 3rd XPD I did.

I've tried a couple of homemade systems. As infrequently as I MTB-O (even having directed a MTB-O last year including modifying the map), it's difficult to make the case for a swanky, purpose-built reader.

Sam
Worcester, MA (USA)

Plastic Corrugated is the stuff to use. Ski O and Bike O holders.
Dedham, MA

1) Nordenmark
2) Go Orienteering
3) Hamilton, ON

Like Joe I'm increasing my chances of schwag by posting on both forums. ;-)

I have minimal MTB-O experience, but my chosen method so far is to hold the map crumpled up in one hand and hope for the best. The AutoPilots look great, though.
Apple Valley, MN (USA)

Toying with the idea to go to the MTB-O Worlds this or next summer.

1. DIY one: 5 inch bolt, some nuts, velcro, plastic board, tape and love for building stuff.
2. Parts: Home Depot, Design: a slightly dysfunctional brain
3. Seattle

Nordenmark (x2 sizes)
Bought in UK, now they & I are in Oz.

1) Nordenmark
2) Hammer, but only if he lets me borrow it
3) Hamilton ON

In Middle Europe the Miry stuff (from Czech) is very popular:

http://www.miry.cz/

I used one for a while (bought direct at miry.cz) but then stuck back to a DIY model.

live in germany

Orifix is very good
http://www.orifix.net/
It comes from Portugal and I have some pieces to sell
I live in IItaly

Thanks for all the info.

Arthurd, P.Stromme, and Stevegregg email me your address and I will mail you our new schwag hat when they are available in about 4 weeks.

kylerpeter at gmail dot com

https://www.facebook.com/kylerpeter/posts/10152265...

Oooh I notice all the winners 'randomly' live in the USA :P

TECNU is based in the USA. do you have the equivalent of poison ivy over there tRicky?

They've got gympie gympie.... I think I'll take the poison ivy....

Is that more like nettles?

But that's in the East, not Sandgroper land.

I've been through stinging bush nonetheless. Took 18 months for the effects to wear off.

Axis Nav 360, bought from Axis Canada when they used to sell them online eons ago. If it ever breaks looks like the way to go is Auto Pilot!

We've got Prickly Moses and tRicky often maps old trails that are overgrown with it.

"This prickly shrub is useful as a screen to inhibit animal and human access to areas". Aha. The ideal solution where you want to forbid off-track riding.

If the trail exists, it gets mapped.

Michael - tell our rogaine setters to stop sending us through it then :-(

I use Miry gotten from me.
They claim to be used by half of the medal winning riders.

I use Orifix. From Portugal, but am just about to start selling in Norway and Sweden. Living in UK/Norway.

You only got to win if you lived in the USA and not if you're promoting your own gear.

- A red auto Pilot!
- Karl gave it to me; probably from the Hungary JWMTBOC 2012
- Brisbane, Australia :)