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Handlebar mounted speakers
I ride my bike a lot and I was thinking about getting speakers for my
bike to use with my discman. I thought about getting some small speakers that I could attach something to and mout them on my handlebars. I looked at Sonic Impact's Gen 2 speakers - http://www.si-5.com/frontEnd/cm_prod...p?productID=15 - but I don't know if these are any good for outdoor use. So does anyone know of a small, good sounding pair of speakers that would be good for such use? Thanks, Dan |
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"Dan" wrote:
I ride my bike a lot and I was thinking about getting speakers for my bike to use with my discman. I thought about getting some small speakers that I could attach something to and mout them on my handlebars. I looked at Sonic Impact's Gen 2 speakers - http://www.si-5.com/frontEnd/cm_prod...p?productID=15 - but I don't know if these are any good for outdoor use. So does anyone know of a small, good sounding pair of speakers that would be good for such use? Thanks, Dan And what makes you think the rest of us want to listen to music in the outdoors? Think headphones. At least then you'll be the only one that gets smeared when you don't hear overtaking traffic. .... say you use just trails? Hearing some idiot playing amplified music on a bike is on an even par with the self absorbed cell-phone using twit who'd parked herself for an extended converstion dead center in the middle of the trail and was deaf to the outside world, including my LOUDLY ringing bell. Should have allowed Darwin to do his thing & run her down. |
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Bill Davis wrote:
And what makes you think the rest of us want to listen to music in the outdoors? Think headphones. At least then you'll be the only one that gets smeared when you don't hear overtaking traffic. I don't think it'd be that loud. I'm guessing you'd never hear on the road due to wind and traffic noise unless you were right behind him. Rich |
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Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:13:15 -0600,
, Bill Davis wrote: And what makes you think the rest of us want to listen to music in the outdoors? With only 2 Watts RMS, you're not going to be within range for very long. The experience I've had with amplified mobile music has been while riding in large groups. It was easy enough to get away from the sound or to hang with the rider if you wanted to hear it. You've got the option. If you're riding solo and overtake a rider with a boom box on their rack, just keep going. You'll quickly be out of earshot. -- zk |
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It'd be about as annoying to other people as a car going by playing
music with the windows down and much less annoying than those cars with the bass pumped way up. I don't have a car so why can't I annoy people with my bike? Hehe =p |
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Dan wrote:
It'd be about as annoying to other people as a car going by playing music with the windows down and much less annoying than those cars with the bass pumped way up. I don't have a car so why can't I annoy people with my bike? Hehe =p The power requirements of loud, low frequency, sound are kind of outside pedal power. The thing to do is use a PA speaker and listen to a talk radio station, preferably one that has liberal leanings. |
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Creative Labs make a nice set of powered speakers called 'travel sound'
they work on four AAA batterys and sound OK not Bose, JBL, or HK but they are loud enough to hear over wind and some traffic. cost about $100. Mounting a diskman or anything shock sensitive dirrectly to the bike can be annoying as it will get jarred, however somehow attatched to the body IE: backpack lessens the jarring. |
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Hmm.. Those look pretty good; they have great reviews on Amazon.com and
I found the TravelSound i300s on ebay for about $25 including shipping (for now anyway - I'm sure the price will go up...) So I might try those out unless anyone has any other suggestions. Thanks Roadie |
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Dan wrote:
I ride my bike a lot and I was thinking about getting speakers for my bike to use with my discman. I thought about getting some small speakers that I could attach something to and mout them on my handlebars. I looked at Sonic Impact's Gen 2 speakers - http://www.si-5.com/frontEnd/cm_prod...p?productID=15 - but I don't know if these are any good for outdoor use. So does anyone know of a small, good sounding pair of speakers that would be good for such use? I did this this with a walkman about 10 years ago. I had a handlebar bag that I put some small car speakers in and hooked them up the walkman. Unfortunatly, the sound wasn't loud enough to overcome the wind noise if I rode over probably 10mph. Alhtough I'm guessing a small amp would have solved that issue, at the time I was in grad school and had little money. I don't have any solution, but if you find one, post here. I'd be interested in doing it again. I still have the bag, and am looking for a reason to get an apple shuffle.... Rich |
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Rich wrote:
Dan wrote: I ride my bike a lot and I was thinking about getting speakers for my bike to use with my discman. I thought about getting some small speakers that I could attach something to and mout them on my handlebars. I looked at Sonic Impact's Gen 2 speakers - http://www.si-5.com/frontEnd/cm_prod...p?productID=15 - but I don't know if these are any good for outdoor use. So does anyone know of a small, good sounding pair of speakers that would be good for such use? I did this this with a walkman about 10 years ago. I had a handlebar bag that I put some small car speakers in and hooked them up the walkman. Unfortunatly, the sound wasn't loud enough to overcome the wind noise if I rode over probably 10mph. Alhtough I'm guessing a small amp would have solved that issue, at the time I was in grad school and had little money. I don't have any solution, but if you find one, post here. I'd be interested in doing it again. I still have the bag, and am looking for a reason to get an apple shuffle.... Rich Small units such as the Walkman are designed to drive headphones, not speakers. What you want are so-called amplified speakers. They require a power source, of course, but that's easy to provide. Find a small pair designed to be connected to a PC's sound card. I tossed an old pair of 4" x 3" recently. :-( |
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