Scooterotica

Anyone got any recommendations for a cheap bike to bike intercom? I've tried a bluetooth one in the past but it wasn't much good. Very noisy and the range was crap.

A mate sugested using walkie talkies with an earpiece. You can buy a pair of Pofung radios pretty cheaply and they're supposed to be good for a mile or so. (Even after you reprogram them to a legal frequency )

The problem here is cheap and good in the same sentence. I've used older Interphone F3 headsets and they are good. Range isn't massive (400 meters perhaps) but audio quality is good. You can pick up older models like this off ebay in Italy for sensible money.

Walkie Talkies might work but you are restricted to push to talk because wind noise will make voice activation unreliable.

In my experience if you get the proper tool for the right job you rarely regret it

We (Me and Mazz) tried the walkie talkie route funniest £20 I've spent
Sitting outside my house with our helmets on shouting can you hear me now
Lucky I'm walled in
We ended up with a cardo G4 set, brilliant,
built in radio (classic FM-Radio 4)
bluetooth music from your iPhone
(only have john lewis christmas add music)
and if in the countryside it has a mile range.

Train Driver wrote:We (Me and Mazz) tried the walkie talkie route funniest £20 I've spent
Sitting outside my house with our helmets on shouting can you hear me now
Lucky I'm walled in
We ended up with a cardo G4 set, brilliant,
built in radio (classic FM-Radio 4)
bluetooth music from your iPhone
(only have john lewis christmas add music)
and if in the countryside it has a mile range.

At between £100 and £200 a set I'd hope they were good!

I was thinking more in the region of £50 a pair

What do you want them for?

Does anyone you ride with ever have anything meaningful to bother you with, while you're riding?

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Surely a lot of the pleasure of riding a 2 stroke scooter is listening to the noise of the engine ?.........that and working out does the leader of the pack actually know where the F##K they are going ???

No I don't want to hear engine or wind noise so I wear ear plugs, the music/radio can still be heard as can Afandy talking to me about Timbo being tight and not joining the cardo club

Muttley McLadd wrote:What do you want them for?

Does anyone you ride with ever have anything meaningful to bother you with, while you're riding?

I wouldn't bother for a normal ride but for my last three long trips it would have been useful to be able to communicate. This June we're riding to Croatia and being able to tell someone to that you need fuel, turn left or right, or inform them that their luggage was falling off would be jolly handy.

Anyone used these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-800m-BT-I ... 5afc7255a6

I'd be interested to know if they are any good. The first obvious downfall is that they appear to be mono which will make the MP3 function a bit pointless.