Cell Phone headsets for helmets

Anyone tried any yet that work?

dav0

 

An auto-answer c.p. with an AutoCom system works fine, but you need to match
the AutoCom's wiring and plugs to the c.p. as they don't always connect up.
Sound is very good and I found that using their voice activated mike that
people at the other end says it sounds better than the regular cell phone.
It can be done without looking at the phone, but riding in the canyons you
won't get reception coverage and it'll cut out anyway. Flatland is okay or
just where you stop and park and carry on with your lies without taking your
helmet off.

B~

 

Telephone conversation is different from rider-2-pillion and rider-2-rider how?

I come from, "fsck cell phones, I have an answering machine!". How do you
resolve the two?

nb

 

Timberwoof wrote:

Mostly, I wear earplugs and do not want to remove my helmet
and earplugs to call the wife and let her know that I am
running a little late, usually due to making a wrong turn
and winding up going through some canyon or another. I can
do it when I get gas, it is just the hassle of the earplugs.
I wear a Schuberth helmet and the wind noise is too much at
speed to not wear the plugs. The autocom looks interesting
but unless they have noise cancellation stuff for the
headphones it may not be too good.

Thanks,
dav0

 

b said carry on with your lies--haha!!

 

Presumably you are both dealing with similar realities. Message content
like "we need a pit stop" or "there's a log in the road around the next
bend" are more supplemental to the process of riding than competing.

Personally, I refuse to own a cell phone, but all the people I know who
do carry them have voicemail services that pick perform the functions of
an answering machine for the times when one cannot or will not answer
the cell.

The only use I can think of for a cell built into my helmet would be to
report a road hazard, accident or a dangerous driver. It would need
voice activation in order to be useful even for that.

Rich, Urban Biker

 

Oh horsepucky! People have been carrying on full-tilt boogie conversations
in vehicles ever since Fred Flintstone put peds to pavement. To make the
assumption that just because the same conversation transpires by way of
electrons thus rendering a driver into a quivering slobbering mass of
incompetence is just plain stupid. People who can't drive and use a cell
phone are the same people who can't drive, period.

nb

 

I frequently wear a Jabra Bluetooth headset under my helmet.
I very rarely talk while riding.
The headset saves me the hassles of removing my helmet and digging for my
cell phone when I need to make a call.

 

actually, there is a difference. when you're talking to your pillion,
and you need to pause to avoid an obstacle or whatever, you don't have to
explain this or waste any time in indecision about what to do. when its
someone remote, there's a unspoken social obligation not to leave them
hanging, this can leave you partially distracted.

 

Only if you must succumb to that "unspoken social obligation."

I leave people hanging all the time.

 

Me, too.

When I get in the car and have a call I put the cell phone on either
speakerphone or puton a headset and explain
"I'm in the car " and people sometimes complain that I'm not paying
attention... so I say "Don't call me when I'm in the car"

OTOH: One of the joys of motorcycling is being inaccessible to everyone
who wants a piece of my time. Plus it is a huge hassle to operate a cell
phone's buttons with gloves.