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Use Bluetooth helmet speakers for audio. Most touring bikes, and many scooters have a cigarette lighter attachment point. My SH300 has one in the glove box. Th
by barrkel 8y ago
Use Bluetooth helmet speakers for audio.
Most touring bikes, and many scooters have a cigarette lighter attachment point. My SH300 has one in the glove box. The 2016+ VFR800 has one. Etc.
Many better quality gloves have conductive tips on their forefingers for capacitive touchscreen usage these days. My Alpinestars SP8 gloves do.
I find Google Maps audio directions just barely acceptable for London navigation. I prefer my Garmin Zumo, but only use that if my destination is a long way off the big city-crossing roads I otherwise know reasonably well.
It comes with my when I have planned routes, rather than destinations, though. Google Maps is dreadful for planning a route with waypoints - it needs constant interaction at every stage.
- michaelt 8y agoYes, many of my problems could have been at least partly solved by spending more money on a helmet with bluetooth, more money on a bike with a better battery and a phone power supply, more money on better gloves with special finger coating, more money on a phone with a better battery and better handlebar mounts available, and so on. Sadly, as a student on a £300 motorbike, I didn't have the money for such luxuries :)
- systemtest 8y agoI have to disagree. I don't have a helmet with bluetooth. My bike has a standard battery. The phone power supply is a 10 euro part on eBay and 5 minutes of soldering. You don't need the gloves as you shoudln't be touching your devices while riding. The battery on my phone has 1500 loadcycles and plain sucks, but I have the 10 euro phone charger. And a handlebar mount is another 10 euro on eBay.
- michaelt 8y agoI guess I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing? I said I couldn't hear audio directions, barrkel said a bluetooth helmet would have helped, I said maybe but I couldn't afford that, you say you disagree and your helmet doesn't have bluetooth - what are we disagreeing about?
- systemtest 8y agoThat you need all those things you listed in your post. I do intercontinental trips without most of those things. You only need to invest 20 to 100 euro and about 30 minutes of your time to have proper navigation on your motorcycle.
- icebraining 8y agoWireless Bluetooth earbuds cost about €10 and should fit even with a regular helmet.
- johnbrodie 8y agoIf you have cheap earbuds that don't really seal out the other noise, this is a recipe for serious hearing damage.
- icebraining 8y agoSealing out external noise when riding a bike is probably even more dangerous. Just keep the volume down and accept that sometimes it'll get drown out. Most apps repeat the directions anyway.