I want to install speakers into my Shoei helmet. My main concern is so I can hear my radar detector. Also, I bought a Chatterbox communicator, that I really am not too crazy about, but still, I would like to try it some more.
The speakers I want to use are those that came with the Chatterbox. They are very thin, but still make it harder for my ears to "unfold" when putting on my skull cap. If I could remove just 1/8-1/4" of the styrofoam where the speakers belong, I would be golden. Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks a ton!
I think bike to bike communicators are great.
The only Chatterbox I would buy would be the X1
http://www.hjc-chatterbox.com/flash_main.html
or the Collett Platium 9000
http://www.collett.mb.ca/
Autocom has about the best of everything but you will pay dearly for it:
http://www.autocomamerica.com/index.asp
their control unit Pro M1 can plug everything into it including radar and cell.
I just buy headset and CD interface from Motocomm
http://www.motocomm.com/MC%20Series%20Products/MC-500/mc500.htm
and any good GMRS handheld and you are in business, less money and can get a real good radio cheap if you shop around.
http://www.leeselect.com/gmrs/gmrs_info.htm
I use ICOM handhelds. Little more expensive but they have more watts than any other handheld.
You can build two complete sets for what you would pay for one Chatterbox X1. Also you and your buddies can carry the handheld GMRS radios around at events like Bikeweek so you can meet up when separated. Thats where I started using them.
I do what everybody else does. I either just let the velcro stick the earphones inside or I make a little room for them. I am now going to use two helmets. One with a permanent installation of a motocom headset. Probably shrink the stryofoam. One without radio stuff.
Since HJC now owns Chatterbox you would think they would make a radio ready helmet......
Radio shack may have an adapter that adapts a CD plug to a radar plug. The Collett and the X1 have a music interface.
BTW DON"T buy the first Chatterboxes. They Suck big time. Only the FRS/GMRS. I wouldn't buy either.