Sirius Satellite Radio...

Nice commercial for Sirius Satellite Radio, before you start advertising for
a service that is struggling for sales you should at least get the facts
straight (By the way, I work at Best Buy so I know that at our store we sell
2-3 Xm's a day, as opposed to selling at best 1 Sirius a week). XM has about
40 commercial free stations. They have over 100 stations and a lot better
choices than Sirius (The comedy stations alone make Xm a better buy) Just
cause the numbers go up to 149 does not mean that there are 149 stations. I
know this is a motorcycle forum but I just wanted to state that if your
going to push a product at least get the facts straight so the people who
buy the product get what they're expecting.

Ryan

 

Good point. XM is in financial straights as it is - Sirius will be lucky to
make it through next year. They sold investors on the promise of hundreds
of thousands of subscribers and they're not even close. The company is
bleeding money. Your best bet would be to be happy with MP3 and wait until
the industry shakes out.

Mack

 

I have setup an ipaq 5455 with emtach sleeve for gps (copilot live 4 and
mapopolis) and bluetooth to phone for wireless internet access on bike
(my bike is also a rolling wifi access point so others near me can have
net access through me and stream mp3's...ok, I'm a geek). It also plays
my mp3's (I added a gig CF card I split with gps maps and mp3's and a
256 meg SD card). I wired my helmet with speakers and have been
researching wireless helmet speakers. Obviously bluetooth would be
best, but no one does them yet, as a result I have been considering
using a universal solution with my current helmet speakers like this:

http://www.goelectronic.com/Merchant2/4.12/00000001/catalog/p1066.html

/steve

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Okay, Stephen, you win. You are the epitome of geekdom!

Larry
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Lol. Actually I have a valid use. The road is my office. I manage my
business, etc from my bike. I even rebuilt one of our sendmail servers
from west dennis beach on the Cape (I'm in MA). Most of the time I head
for the mountains, find a cool shaded place, then use my freebsd laptop
wifi to my bike and vpn back to my servers to handle issues.

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ditto KPIG in Santa Cruz.

 

There's a guy in Dallas that goes by "Geek". We're taking his name
away and giving it to you

Steve
95 Buell S2
96 Kawasaki ZX7R

 

Well gosh, Mark. I'm fairly new here so I didn't know that this was a
subject which has apparently been talked about over and over, and judging by
your post one which engenders some strong feelings. I didn't mean to start
anything up here.

You are quite correct, I do like an open face helmet more than a full face
one. The biggest reason for that preference is that I can be aware of
what's around me better without having to constantly turn my head. I've
ridden most of the past 30 years, (albeit with a 5 year break before my
current bike), with an open face bucket. Gave full face a fair trial - 2
years. Now I'm switching back and find that I really like, and had missed
more than I realized not having to take my eyes off the road ahead just to
see what is going on around me.

When you said "If your head didn't turn on your neck, I might believe (about
being able to see better with an open-face helmet)" I have to assume that we
agree that full face helmets do cut down on the driver's view. I don't
think that is any rationalization. I just proved it to myself yesterday
when I switched styles. It was like "Wow. I can see again." It was a much
bigger difference than I thought it was going to be, even down to the little
things like not having to bob my head to see my turn signal indicator, up to
the more important things like cars moving up along side me in adjacent
lanes.

The preceding is my personal experience, not an advocacy message for any
particular type of safety gear or life style. If I'm doing any
justification to myself it's that I am trading off some aural cues for
increased visual ones. I'll probably still get creamed by a car I didn't
see or hear, but at least I'll be rocking out when I do.

Keep both wheels down...

Paul

 

Raghu said:

Raghu,

I think that you got it right. It's a case of this ol' dog not being able
to learn new tricks. I still can't figure out why 56 seemed really old when
it was father's age, but doesn't seem old at all, now, when it applies to
me. Go figure.

Paul

 

Other pertinent data
There were no skid marks left at the scene
see: http://www.falvio.com/crash/images/NoSkidMarks.jpg
LMAO
Mag

 

Partially this is because both DOT and SNELL (and most FF helmets are
SNELL approved) have some pretty specific requirements for visibility.

 

I've always wondered about how they enforce that requirement because the
visibility (e.g. horizontal field of view) depends as much on the head
as it does on the helmet (for typical heads and helmets, of course).

I suspect they have a "fractional circumference" criterion - the face
shield must wrap X% of the way around the helmet. Does anyone know
what the requirement really is?

JGB

 

My experience has been that the lower the handlebars, the less turning
your head actually helps. With race bars, turn your head and you see up,
not back. That's why I like to see fairly high bars on a learner's bike.

Ted Crum
1988 K75c