Headphones in helmets...

Do any of you lot ride with musical (or Radio 4 for that matter)
accompaniment? I tried for the first time today (not sure why it's taken me
so long to consider it) and found it mostly a very good experience. Apart
from the headphones, which became quite painful in my relatively tight
Shoei.

So - any recs for headphones that work well inside a lid?

 

Hmm, I've been thinking about this myself recently. I'm considering
getting an MP3 player with radio for going out on the bike but I'm a
bit wary about the earphones as I've always had a great deal of trouble
with the (variety) available on the DC training w/e.

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Ferger wrote

The music of the ride not good enough for you then?

Besides staying out of A@E is a positive benefit of paying attention.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ferger

Why on *earth* would you want to use headphones?
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In my case, to listen to SatNav instructions.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SteveH

Well, my question stands. Just turn the volume up a bit and it's fine.
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Nigel Eaton emerged from their own little world to say

Not everyone wants to ride off the ferry at Cherbourg with Wagner blaring
out of the quadraphonic speakers, you know.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

They don't? How odd.

There's nowt as queer as folk, y'know.
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Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Ahhh, yes, I've been whooshed.

Forgot you had the blingmobile.

 

The French are probably used to hearing that rolling across their
country .

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steve auvache secured a place in history by writing:

On the same daily commute, with mostly traffic threading, no.

Indeed, much why I haven't tried it before. But I didn't find it at all
distracting actually, mentally switched it off when I needed to. Radio 4
doesn't really work, but music was fine.

 

Nigel Eaton secured a place in history by writing:

Because the nipple-speakers didn't have enough bass?

*Ding* - you've got one of those perambulating-amplifier affairs haven't
you....do those things actually sound any good?

 

SteveH secured a place in history by writing:

Yeah, that was one of the reasons I wanted to try it - I'm considering a
gadget foray in that direction for my Pocket PC.

 

Ferger wrote

Fit louder pipes then.

I'll agree. A bike is no place to be listening to a chat show. Heavy
Rock FM is the only answer.

 

I'd rather listen to the induction andexhaust noise.

These:
http://www.autocom.co.uk/

 

SteveH says...

<robotic voice>

"No I haven't a fucking clue either"

</rv>

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ferger

<G> Mine is OK up to about 50-ish, then it all starts to get lost in the
slipstream.

This evening I was playing with the on-board sound effects available
from the throttle. Cracking it WFO at about 4000 produces an absolutely
*gorgeous* roar. Addictive it is. And I don't *think* that Gatso in
Wing[1] is active...


[1] No, really. How fucking ironic would that be, eh?
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ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

steve auvache secured a place in history by writing:

Clinging on to his Indie-Kid Roots FM more like, but each to his own
(generation).....

 

Molly secured a place in history by writing:

Figured someone might offer this one. I was hoping for a pikier solution,
but the whole thing is beginning to look like even greater incentive to
wire myself up to the back-seat rider...

 

Because his speakers aren't waterproof?