Creature comforts...

**SPORK** · 5th October 2004, 12:07

Ahhh, grew up watching Beyond 2000, probably made me as infatuated with technology as I am now

**Slingshot** · 5th October 2004, 12:14

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Yeah but what would they call it now?

Very good question.

**Slingshot** · 5th October 2004, 17:52

Just found this while searching around the www.
There's a demo movie at the bottom of the page which has a dude riding a lap of a track somewhere and talking as he's doing it.
I'm impressed, fairly expensive though at $329AUD.

**The Pastor** · 6th October 2004, 11:28

two walkie talkies hooked up to sum ear phones and mike work. Cut the speaker wires in the talkies and run about 2M of cord to the earfones. Do the same with the mike. Fix the talkie somewere easy to press the talk button and put in the ear phones and you might nead to tape the mike to ur helmet or sumthing.

Getting a bit more flash, have the mike and earfones plug into the talkie would be easier for getting on/off the bike and you could fix the earfones and mike to be in the helmet and have the wires running down ur back and under the seat. You could even put the talk button somewere easy to press so all you see on the bike is a button.

Man im a genious. I reckon you could do it for under 50 bucks (buying stuff new)

**The Pastor** · 6th October 2004, 11:29

You might nead more than 2M depending on ur install. I did this for paintball and worked well

**Yokai** · 6th October 2004, 11:37

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Yeah but what would they call it now?

Beyond 9:30?

Yokai

**Slingshot** · 6th October 2004, 11:37

The problem with this type of set-up on a bike is the noise. Yes it's too noisy (above about 40kph) for the VOX to work but it's also rather hard to understand what someone is saying when they've got all of the wind/engine noise being transmitted as well.

I'm starting to think about buying a couple of throat mics, the link that I posted has throat mics suitable for the walkie talkies I already have and including freight it would only cost about $95.

**The Pastor** · 6th October 2004, 11:52

Inside the helmet theres not to much noise?

**Slingshot** · 6th October 2004, 12:00

Yeah, there is. I tried a set-up like that using the PTT button to the walkie talkie, I installed the mic on the chin bar and it just picks up way to much extra noise, I tried putting a little bit of foam over it but that didn't help.
That was using an electric microphone which are omi-directional, I suspect that a dynamic (directional) mic would be better but I couldn't find one that was small enough.

Even with a throat mic I'm concerned that it will still be to noisy to hear speach coming through the little ear phones, I've tried wearing them and listening to music but found the walkman had to be at full volume to hear anything.

**The Pastor** · 6th October 2004, 12:54

id have to try it b4 i belive thts its to noisey,

**Slingshot** · 6th October 2004, 13:29

Originally Posted by renegade master

id have to try it b4 i belive thts its to noisey,

Thanks for the vote of confidence.
When you get a bike (and your licence) give it a try and let me know how you get on.

**The Pastor** · 6th October 2004, 16:27

Will do, but Im not having pillions on till at least a year of experiance, maybe if they stand on a big roundabout and i go about 50 round it I could test it that way

**magnum** · 8th October 2004, 16:28

Originally Posted by Cajun

corbin seats are so over priced, they are very hard to get hold of now days as well. Ya should have come seen us steve and we would have made one molded to fit ya ass

hey,sorry man i didnt know!got it off ebay pretty cheap anyways,cheers tho. :spudwave: