do you object to stereos on bikes?

[jeremysprite]

I was considering installing a stereo on my bike, but received fierce cutting remarks, so I want to see what everyone thinks of stereos on bikes

[Sniper]

Its wrong, if they were meant to have stereos, they would have come out with stereos

[Coyote]

Nudin rong wid pimpin owt is wheelz bra

I'm all for it, but I want to get neons on my bike so does my opinion really matter?

[pyrocam]

i dont object but its kinda dumb having a stereo on a bike. have a helmet with speakers is better. I use nice slimline ones. mmmmmmm techno.

[dawnrazor]

I was considering installing a stereo on my bike, but received fierce cutting remarks, so I want to see what everyone thinks of stereos on bikes

Jez dude, call that "fierce ", might want to grow some thicker skin, and i suspect that by starting a new thread on the same subject your only going to incur more independent opinions from other folks here.

[stify]

me bike came fitted with stereo...(two mufflers)

[Sniper]

me bike came fitted with stereo...(two mufflers)

Amen.........

[SPORK]

Amen.........
Just wondering Sniper, but the last 4 or so posts of yours I've read have all been one-worders. Please don't tell me you're just whoring so you can get to 7k?

[jeremysprite]

Jez dude, call that "fierce ", might want to grow some thicker skin, and i suspect that by starting a new thread on the same subject your only going to incur more independent opinions from other folks here.

i was taken aback by comments such as 'not a real biker'. didn't know people felt so strongly about it. and i started a poll to find the opinion of other people on this particular subject, not about wiring an amp to my bike.

[Sniper]

Just wondering Sniper, but the last 4 or so posts of yours I've read have all been one-worders. Please don't tell me you're just whoring so you can get to 7k?

Never..........

[stify]

Never..........

never.....?

[Sniper]

never.....?

Never.......

[Badcat]

a lot of people do it, but i can't.
i'd rather be alert to what's going omn around me.
but i live in auckland.
if I were doing a lot of open road riding, i'd prolly feel different.

k

[dawnrazor]

ONE of the things that seperates us from the other road abusers is the fact that we are unhindered by the distractions of entertainments. When I ride I use 100% of my concentration to read the road, and all the sensory information that is propelled at you constantly. Not only is lisening to music a DISTRACTION it stops you hearing your engine and interperting its fed back, it also stops you hearing the road noise.

Cutting out one sense will decimate the others, it doesn't take much to drop a bike, why make it easier.

[Teflon]

I was considering installing a stereo on my bike, but received fierce cutting remarks, so I want to see what everyone thinks of stereos on bikes

Just ignore them, it's a great idea.

I'm thinking about installing one on the TL, have to switch the two brothers pipes with standards thou, just so i can hear the music.

[thealmightytaco]

I just use the ipod with headphones, but at speed you can hardly hear the thing anyway, unless you want tinnitus or something, too much wind noise. But ultimately, if anyone had asked someone why in the hell you'd wanna put an engine on a bicycle, and talked them out of it...

Aka; screw 'em, do what ya want

[Holy Roller]

I have to agree as my ride came with stereo installed. At first I found it distracting now I enjoy it when riding in traffic around town. Secondary benefit is that people hear me as my bike is rather quiet in the zorst department. Stereo is quite listenable up to 140 though most of the riding time is used riding at nana speeds.

[Marmoot]

i dont object but its kinda dumb having a stereo on a bike. have a helmet with speakers is better. I use nice slimline ones. mmmmmmm techno.

wtf is the point???
No one else can hear it and you'd get deaf because of the noise!

Stereo is definitely the way to go. You can crank it up as loud as the system can for everyone on the road without worrying about your hearing coz you'd be safe inside your helmet.
In fact, if you have good helmet you can get away from actually hearing the music. :hitcher:

[marty]

stereos on bikes are wanky. full stop. messers yoshi/remus/akroprovic, and those 2 brothers guys were born to save us from dressers with stereos and intercoms.

take your stereo and put it in your mr2 with your wanker pish valve.

[What?]

Wot Marty said - besides, any sound system worth owning won't fit on a bike.

[kro]

Its wrong, if they were meant to have stereos, they would have come out with stereos

So Goldwings, Venture Royales, Cavalcades, these are not bikes ????!!!!!!

I rode a Venture Royale in 1992, I'm sure it 2 wheels and 4 cylinders, or was that 2 cylinders and 4 wheels?, heck now I'm not so sure, but anyway, like I was saying, stay out of my liquor cabinet !!!!!.

[ManDownUnder]

I was considering installing a stereo on my bike, but received fierce cutting remarks, so I want to see what everyone thinks of stereos on bikes

I think you worry too much about what others say. If you want to - do it...

[Sniper]

So Goldwings, Venture Royales, Cavalcades, these are not bikes ????!!!!!!



Put it this way. I wouldn't own or ride one......

[Sniper]

I think you worry too much about what others say. If you want to - do it...

BLASPHEMY! Why do you condone such henious acts against the sacred motorbike?

[Yokai]

Its difficult to fit a bike stereo
It runs the battery down (unless you've got a big arsed thing like a GW)
How do you change a CD at speed?
Where'd you put your 15" sub?

Advantage: Playing massive boom beats at the boy racer Wankers on queen street and having NOTHING in the way of the sub!! ;-)

If I'm doing a long ride I'll probably put my iPod on... slimline headphones, alpine earplugs... If I had the money, I'd do something cool like hook it up to a mini FM radio or something, but it isn't really worth it unless I'm going somewhere for a long while and I can put some calming tunes on... The 30 with the twisties is really nice, but it can get a little hairy when you get into a rhythm with the musics and not with the twisties!

Pimp your ride how you want, but remember that ones own taste is always subjective

[zadok]

I don't know that there are many bikes around with stereos, but I have yet to hear one. Doesn't concern me; each to their own. I would have thought a personal player would be more practical tho.

[flash]

i wouldnt have one, and i wouldnt listen to it when your riding either.
i think its ok if you have one but only use it when its parked. someone from my school wanted to fit one to their scooter so when he was outside or near the beach he could just pump out the music

[Waylander]

... The 30 with the twisties is really nice, but it can get a little hairy when you get into a rhythm with the musics and not with the twisties!
The real trick is getting the music in time with the road and your riding. Then everything just flows, smooth.

I toyed with the idea of putting one of those satalite stereo recivers on my bike once. But you guys don't have that hear yet so I'll explain for those that don't know. The states is big and it's annoying when driving across it to keep searching for a new radio station you like every couple of hours. So someone started putting satalites up to bounce radio signals all over the country. Comercial free and nothing but music from coast to coast.

Anyway I was just gonna have the reciever with a headphone lead for my healmet that I was gonna have headphone/speakers installed on the inside of. Kinda a silly Idea to have actuall speakers on the bike though. You wont really be able to hear them at spead and around town you would just look silly with music playing outside your helmet where almost everyone but you can hear it.

As for a sub on a bike, Put your helmet on and find a boy racer to follow. Not something I care to have a reapeat of.

[outlawtorn]

Do what makes you happy and fuck what everyone else thinks.

[onearmedbandit]

My introduction into real motorcycles (read GSXR750's) came way back in about 1989 when one of my brothers friends had an 87 model. Used to take me into town to school on it when I was about 14, riding to school on a very trick (at the time) bike with some hard rock blasting through the stereo! He created a cradle to sit on the tank that supported the head unit and speakers. Very cool, but it was the 80's.

[Gazzar]

I tried a CD player once with headphones and it was no good for me as my rideing turned to shit :doh: but try it yourself it may work for you.:rockon:

[emaN]

mmmm,
my intercom allows it, i've done it, but don't go outta my way 'must remember minidisc, must remember minidisc'...
i guess it also depends where you're riding; 12hr days on american interstates get tedious. (there's only so many mexicans with funny cars you can laugh at).
however, riding thru' some nice twisties, stopping for a feed/brew now & then....where's the need?

[**R1**]

I remember my mate telling me he had sounds hooked up on his VT250 years ago, he crashed with Rage playing "fuck you i wont do what you tell me" while his bike was spinning in circles on the road, (not a good look!) personaly I would be looking at ways to lighten my bike not make it heavier, and sound wanky, but i like performance, not ringing ears.

[Sniper]

I remember my mate telling me he had sounds hooked up on his VT250 years ago, he crashed with Rage playing "fuck you i wont do what you tell me" while his bike was spinning in circles on the road, (not a good look!) personaly I would be looking at ways to lighten my bike not make it heavier, and sound wanky, but i like performance, not ringing ears.

A stereo on your bike would proberbly fall off though.......:msn-wink:

[Waylander]

I remember my mate telling me he had sounds hooked up on his VT250 years ago, he crashed with Rage playing "fuck you i wont do what you tell me" while his bike was spinning in circles on the road...
You really have to appretiate the irony of that though. Hope he was ok.

[bugjuice]

iPod with a remote. That's the best..
Goldwings have stereos. But bikes ain't really well known for their creature comforts.. kinda why we have them, isn't it..?
Besides, the 12" sub doesn't fit in my boot, I've tried..

[Marmoot]

Besides, the 12" sub doesn't fit in my boot, I've tried..

so if you can't have them, then noone else should....good point :yes:

[bugjuice]

except Goldwing riders. You can get a couple of 15" woofers in the side panniers

[ManDownUnder]

...Goldwing riders. You can get a couple of 15" woofters in the side panniers

You been riding up and down Ponsonby Road again buggy?

[bugjuice]

gotta keep the regulars happy...

[Sniper]

gotta keep the regulars happy...

I knew it, proof that you are a man-whore.....:lol:

[inlinefour]

As it would interrupt the listening enjoyment of hearing the motor on my bike.

[zeRax]

on the gn i didnt go on a long trip without mp3's, doesnt really appeal to listening to mp3's on the zxr, engine revs high and i love it, plus im always out to push it a bit more each time so like to have my concentration, music would just be lost in my mind :E, though... sometimes i ride a hell of a lot better when i just turn loosey goosey and dont care, smooth tight cornering @ speed seems so much easier when u dont care or are amped up, :X

[DogBreath]

I was considering installing a stereo on my bike, but received fierce cutting remarks, so I want to see what everyone thinks of stereos on bikes
If you want sounds, fit sounds, its yr bike, I guess
Personally I need to concentrate when riding, but thats just 'cause I'm not very good, yet.

[Highlander]

I slip an MP3 player in my pocket and have the ear buds that clipover your ears (like the runners use), that way they sit there when I put the helmet on.
I find the music soothing and helps keep me relaxed. Helps take the monotone out of the windage noise. Don't have it so loud that I can't hear the engine, infact a week or so ago I was out with a mate and could hear his bike over mine AND the music.

[John]

I wish people who played NFSU just bought cars.