Helmet Headsets. Any suggestions?

I know there are a few people out there who own these. I'm planning a trip to Seattle from San Antonio for next spring. Me and a friend will be going together and plan to spend lots of time of the road.

But, we're interested in having a communication system and until we can work out a good flag system, i think a two way radio + headset is the best way to go.

Has any of y'all used any of these?

If so, what do you use?

And to anyone who saw my post above, yes i plan to fully put my bike thru the ropes before taking on such a long trip.

We've a JM CB that's integrated with our helmets. I've also tried the AutoCom system and like the JM setup a lot better.

Check em out at: www.jmcorp.com/

Good Luck

Bill

we use collet communicators. theyre pricey but work well in most conditions. use em snowmobiling too www.collettcommunicators.com/

About three months ago I bought a Chatterbox XBi and I am extremely pleased with it. It works exactly as advertized, and I link my iPod and phone to it. The only real limitation is that it only has about a 30ft range - but they now have the XBi2 with a range of over 1,500ft!

Prices are also very reasonable - and include the headset! However, the Bluetooth dongle for the iPod was expensive (over $40) and I had to install a new battery in my iPod to get any life out of it! However, I now get over 5 hours of life from the iPod with the Bluetooth running - and I haven't run the battry out on the XBi yet!

Sound quality is good enough although sometimes the volume is marginal - it depends on the recording volume and is usually fine - I typically run it at half volume and can hear it at all speeds. The helmet mounted unit is light, and I do not notice it is there. Installation was a piece of cake as the lining on my Scorpion helmet is removable - but I did have to replace the Velcro they supply with a larger, more industrial strength type to give some flexibility in the mounting positions, and to get it to stick! Positioning of the earphones is critical!

I am not up on Bluetooth stuff, so I don't know how it works, but I have been wondering if I could use my cellphone and hook up 2 headsets...would that work, or is that dumb? I am interested in the cheapest simplest and best way to communicate with my GF in pillion. Sorry for hijacking, but I thought it was on topic

Nah, thats on topic. I investigated bluetooth. But its very expensive. Also, i don't think you can hook up two cell phone headsets. If you could though, wind and road noise would make that tough.

Also, i've found a few solutions which are fairly cheap to communicate with the person on my back seat, but we're going to take a trip on two bikes and i want bike to bike talking.

I think i'm gonna end up getting a walkie talkie and a wind-resistant headset (we both have full face helmets, but still) with a push to talk i can put at an easily accessible location. Its just tough to find some user reviews on items like that.

I have a set of Audiovox walkie talkies with voice activation. They worked marginal at best. They're the second set I've tried thinking the first set(motorola I believe)was just a bad set from the factory.
I doubt I would buy another set.

Tony wrote:

I have a set of Audiovox walkie talkies with voice activation. They worked marginal at best. They're the second set I've tried thinking the first set(motorola I believe)was just a bad set from the factory.
I doubt I would buy another set.

Same here, but with Chatterbox. And with open face helmet was virtually impossible, even with push-to-talk, unless behind a Vetter Windjammer fairing.

Also hated the clunky clip-on helmet box, and extra wiring involved, sometimes fogotten and snatched loose when dismounting.

Fell in love with hand signals all over again. :lol:

YMMV.

Good Luck!

How do you hear the speakers with the wind noise? I have tried just about every type of audio speakers and systems out there and have very diapointed in them all becasue I cannot hear anything over the wind noise. I have tried numerous helmets and they all are noisy. How are you guys dealing with this?

The J&M system is so adjustable that I've never found an environment it won't work in. The controls are on the left handle bar, easily accessible. We run full face helmets so we've not had an issue with voice activation.
This is the system I chose because it offers total integration but there are less expensive setups available as well.

www.jmcorp.com/SeeProducts.asp?PF=38


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