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- From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest)
- Subject: Re: Bike to bike communication
- In-Reply-To: nrmendel@unix.amherst.edu's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:14:17 GMT
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:49:49
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- In article <foo> nrmendel@unix.amherst.edu (Nathaniel Mendell) writes:
- What's the best form of electronic communication between bikes? CB or one of
- those 2-way fm deals? I'm told that some models have microphones inside
- the earphone -- how do those work on bikes? What's range like for a compact
- (mount inside fairing?) unit? Prices? Good brand names?
-
- The ones with the mike in the earphone suck dingoes' kidneys. The mike must
- be extremely sensitive to pick up your voice from way over there, so it
- also picks up road and exhaust noise, beautifully!
-
- Maxon makes a set, at $75 each (2 required :-) that is `helmet adaptible'.
-
- Radio Shlock sells a very similar set, at $75/pr, that is not `helmet
- adaptible' unless you're willing (I was) to cut up the headset and glue the
- different parts into your helmet.
-
- The 49MHz ones have about 1/4 mile range if you're lucky, and are subject to
- lots of interference in yuppie neighborhoods, from phones and baby monitors
- and kids' walky-talkies (all of which operate on the same band).
-
- If you want a serious bike-to-bike setup, probably the cheapest way would
- be to buy a CB on one of Radio Shak's $49.95 special prices (of course, these
- guys always break after about a year; get a real brand, like Cobra, to make
- it last longer) and build a headset yourself. You can get the full-on
- motorcycle adapter headset, with big-foam boom mike and interior earphones,
- helmet included, for $300 from Honda (who sells 'em for the Goldwing crowd),
- or a kit, without helmet for considerably less but still around $100.
-
- Of course, none of these options works well at all, with an open face helmet
- (as others have mentioned...)
-
- Good luck!
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