CrashTestDanny
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Hard to listen to tunes if your lid doesn't have speakers, and a SS1k through Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming flat lands kinda begs for some entertainment, doesn't it?
When I bought my Starcom a year ago or so, I decided to order a few extra headsets just for this occasion when I would have a new helmet to outfit. Here's the details on how to install one of these things:
1 - Remove the cheek pads according to the helmet makers' instructions. For the Arai, grab them each from the area near the visor and give them a good tug.
2 - Pull the cheek liner off of the cheek pad, exposing the foam block underneath.
3 - Route the speaker through the hole in the styrofoam block (but not through the hole in the liner, so the chin strap will not be in direct contact with the cables.
4 - Stick the velcro backing to the cheek pad block.
5 - Stick the speaker cover to the velcro pad with the speaker between the two. Make sure you have the speaker aligned with where your ear will be.
6 - Repeat 3-5 for both speakers.
7 - Stuff all cables under the neck roll. Be gentle with them, but push them all the way in between the helmet's inner and outer shells. I like to double it back quite a bit to give plenty of strain relief. I have needed it before.
8 - Run the main cable over the top of the neck roll, between the right cheek pad and outer shell, and then out between the neck roll and outer shell. I like to only have a short amount of cable sticking out so that when I ride without the headset plugged in, I don't get beaten by it.
9 - Route the mic cable over and behind the right cheek pad, stuffing all of the slack cable between the cheek pad and outer shell from the visor opening.
10 - Place the mic right in front of where your mouth will be in the helmet.
11 - Drink a (root) beer and go to bed!
When I bought my Starcom a year ago or so, I decided to order a few extra headsets just for this occasion when I would have a new helmet to outfit. Here's the details on how to install one of these things:
1 - Remove the cheek pads according to the helmet makers' instructions. For the Arai, grab them each from the area near the visor and give them a good tug.
2 - Pull the cheek liner off of the cheek pad, exposing the foam block underneath.
3 - Route the speaker through the hole in the styrofoam block (but not through the hole in the liner, so the chin strap will not be in direct contact with the cables.
4 - Stick the velcro backing to the cheek pad block.
5 - Stick the speaker cover to the velcro pad with the speaker between the two. Make sure you have the speaker aligned with where your ear will be.
6 - Repeat 3-5 for both speakers.
7 - Stuff all cables under the neck roll. Be gentle with them, but push them all the way in between the helmet's inner and outer shells. I like to double it back quite a bit to give plenty of strain relief. I have needed it before.
8 - Run the main cable over the top of the neck roll, between the right cheek pad and outer shell, and then out between the neck roll and outer shell. I like to only have a short amount of cable sticking out so that when I ride without the headset plugged in, I don't get beaten by it.
9 - Route the mic cable over and behind the right cheek pad, stuffing all of the slack cable between the cheek pad and outer shell from the visor opening.
10 - Place the mic right in front of where your mouth will be in the helmet.
11 - Drink a (root) beer and go to bed!
