do you object to stereos on bikes?

[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.

[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.