Do You Ride With Tunes?

[Dragonrider]

The Sony minidisc one is nice too . . . usb connects to your computer, burns the disks, holds play lists too. 10 hours of music on a disk. The whole thing is about the size of a pack of cigs. About $150. Runs over 20 hours on 1 aa battery.

They have a water-resistent (sport) model too, but it is just slightly bigger.

[Melody]

Heck ya

Gotta ride with toons. I have a cycle sound system on my windjammer with Ozzy in the casset.

[MaRtiB]

Oh Yes, I'm singing on a ride !
Maybe I just need the radio. I would prefer the radio in my helmet. It's quite an expensive choice (guess that's why I'm singing insted) but I don't want to disturb bypassers with an external loud speaker. Must admit that Scorpion or Iron Maiden is not suitable to everyone ...

[Bud Manley]

Iron Maiden is the best driving music.
Run to the Hills awesome.....

[jimmy j johnson]

The only tune I hear is the rumble of my Jardine. And here in central Ohio, the only rumble I hear latley is thunder, and the pounding of the rain. I did go down to the barn this evening and fired the Big Eleven up just to hear her roar.

[wpc57]

sorry JIMMY all I can think of when I see your initals is ... Oh You Can Call Me RAY ..or you can call me Ray Jay ... or you can call me RAY JAY Johnson......etc. Any one remember that one?

[jimmy j johnson]

Nahhhhhh, I never heard that one. I got ole Ray J beat hands down. My full name is James Justin Johnson Jr. But you can call me Jimmy J, james J, JJ, Triple J, Double J................

[schpiff]

HAHAHA

...But ya doesnt hafta call me Mr Johnson

[graybird78]

tunes

Gotta have tunes. I have a 80 SG with vetter fairing. has kenwood cassette with kenwood 2-way speakers.Have had this setup for 3 years no problems.Thinking about CD player in near future with remote so wife can change channels on long trips

[Dragonrider]

Get a CD player that will play mp3's. One cd will hold something like 10 hours of music!

[fusionking]

Life sucks !

All I do now is wrench with tunes

[mr_ed]

reply to Poll

This is going to sound wierd but I listen in my mind, no need for electronics. I frequently get so involved this way I go on "Auto Pilot" and miss turn off's. Crazy, no, senile, perhaps.

[Parr8hed]

I don't have tunes on the 78 E. I just have a small wind sheild. No fairing, anyone install tunes on something of this nature? I have a Sony Mini disc that I use for running, and lifting. How about some small powered speakers up by the bars and gauges? Any ideas?

Travis

[TopCatGr58]

Hey there Parr8head,

This brings back old memories. I had a '74 Yamaha TX500 with handlebar mounted fairing and hardbags. I mounted a set of 5&1/4" 16oz surface mount speakers to it, had a pioneer supertuner/8-track and a 40watt amp mounted in the bags. You could hear my stereo a block before you could hear my engine!!

I don't think your mini-disc player would have the watts to drive a set of handlebar speakers loud enough to hear them very well, especially with/thru a helmet. They do sell handlebar mounted stereos for bikes, but you'll pay for it, and you still IMHO won't hear it as well as a nice set of earbuds or speakers in your helmet!!!

T.C.

[Parr8hed]

I see what you are saying, I was thinking about some of the ones like the round chrome ones that are always on eBay. They have amplifiers already built into them. I know that they make small amplified speakers for personal stereos, but not sure how loud that they get. I guess that it would be easier to get a set of ear bud phones, just brainstorming. BTW those speakers were going to 250.00 $ on eBay. That is a little steep for me. Maybe something in the saddle bags?...

Thanks,
Travis