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Bike-2-bike comms.
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Do you *really* have to spend £300+ per bike to get something usable?
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No. A pair of Cobra MT525 PMR446 radios comes out to £35 at bbshopping.co.uk
and there are a range of PTT helmet kits on there too.
If you want VOX, then you'll need the more expensive MT725 and something
like the Alan/Midland headset.
I use an MT725 with VOX with my ducklings being equipped with the 525 radios
and an earpiece. Works well up to motorway speeds ( for post DAS
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That sounds far more reasonable, thanks.
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You call them ducklings. Ah, how sweet.
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ducklings ).
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Nope. Those speaking tube things work fine.
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He said bike-2-bike comms...
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The elasticated, infinite-stretch tubes required for bike-to-bike are
horrendously expensive, mind.
I find semaphore works quite well ... up to about the ton, at least.
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This is very true. I've got a Backchat Duo for rider-to-pillion
yacking, & it works amazingly well. It does have a /slight/ flaw when
it comes to bike-to-bike use though.
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Bike 2 bike? I'd like to see that.
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And who wants to natter while riding a bike anyway?
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Exactly. Part of the pleasure of biking is not having to talk (or
listen) to anyone.
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yeah they might criticize my singing.
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I don't want to natter, but it would be handy when out with SO. I.e.
when we get split up by a line of traffic, or if I go ahead for a play
through some bends[1], & need to tell her to "turn right at the big
white house" etc etc.
[1] She's not comfortable with leaning very far yet.
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Rider-pillions have been know to be part of the deal in going on the
bike instead of the cage. But for the rider, obviously not required.
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*Ding*. I've only got used to riding in a froup in during the last few
years.
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I'm not too keen on riding in a group. I always end up hurrying to keep
up in fear of getting lost, or stuck behind someone who's always braking
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That's the main reason I want them for, especially as we'll be heading
to the south of France/Spain for a week's playing later in the year.
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You can't really get lost going to Spain by bike. Not even if you take
twisties (although there aren't that many going through France).
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Massif Central is pretty windy. Lovely route, TAAW, if oen goes via Clermont
Ferrand.
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in the wrong places.[1]
I do like having someone to talk to when I stop, though.
[1] Sometimes it works out. I guess that's when *I'm* the mug annoying
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This is exactly my feelings on the matter. Occasional group rides are fine
from a novelty POV, and chasing faster people can build your skills, but I
generally prefer to ride on my own, and socialise when I stop riding.
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Ideal number for a group ride is three or four IMHO.
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Last "group ride" I was on, there were three in front, out of sight, and one
behind, out of sight. My efforts to catch up with the three in front
resulted in me specking out as far as the one behind was concerned.
Good it was.
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Or 20-30, judging by the number of bikes racing round the periph last
night.
Some of those pipes made real music going through the tunnels.
Some of those bikes put the wind up some of the cage drivers. :-)
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people behind me.
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Surely if you're riding with a group of any size you just set a pace
you're happy with and then it sort of filters itself, IYSWIM. I can't
recall a BOTAFOT, for example, where the front wasn't filled with the
usual suspects. Everyone else just arrives slightly later. Or much
later.
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