Got a few Bluetooth speakers at home. Would love to mount one on bars for commute to work. Been looking for way of mounting it to bike or bars.
Anyone done this before?
Very chavvy
Put a sub on the rear rack too.
This bloke
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In the olden days we had to tie bells to lepers alerting people to stay away from the unclean. Now they supply the warning themselves.
Nobody else wants to listen to your music, and I say this as someone with better taste in music than anybody on the internets.
OP I could make up a frame sticker for you too:
Name Team racing. Ok?
Btw what tunes are you bangin?
Enya
Starsailor
All About Eve
'Steel Magnolias' soundtrack
Can any one recommend me a good strong frame fit pump suitable for shoving in the front wheel of any commuter with speakers on their bars? 🙂
My brother in law just sent us one of these:
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Next time I do Spooky Woods I'm gonna stick that in my back pocket and bust out some SKULLFIST!!!!!!
**** all y'all
Jacob, nobody else wants to hear your music. Unplug for the commute. It is just noise pollution and nuisance.
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Bar mounted speakers!!! Want want want
Just get one of these bad boys
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Btw what tunes are you bangin?Enya
Starsailor
Shirley BMX Bandits & Genesis?
OP- bodge method is Smart bracket, with clip from light glued to speaker. They hear you rolling'...
There's some pricks on here.
Can be a bit quiet at 5 am in the morning so I would like to listen to the radio or some music.
Take it some on here dont commute. Seen an old guy who passed me the other day with a radio playing which gave me the idea. So less of negative comments and I ain't a chav.
I know where your coming from I use headphones for my commute but would like to be able to hear what's going on around me to.
[i]Take it some on here dont commute. Seen an old guy who passed me the other day with a radio playing which gave me the idea. So less of negative comments and I ain't a chav.[/i]
I commute on the bike and listen to music, on the traffic free bits anyway. I use earphones, they're pretty good as they let you listen to your music whilst not bothering others with it.
Also with the volume low there's no reason not to hear traffic.
If you're really keen to hear surrounding noise, try some Aftershokz headphones.
They are bone conducting and leave the ear completely open. I tried some at the Bike and Tri show and was impressed by how good they sound and how you can 'flick' between the two sound sources.
Matt
Jacob - the pricks comment - don't put yourself down so much, misguided and chavvy yes, prick, no.
Can be a bit quiet at 5 am in the morning
Maybe some people like that.
Can you tell avdave2 what it's like to commute!
Rob Jackson enjoy life instead of telling people how not too.
Cheers Matt_bl
Couldn't get on with headphones, so prefer a speaker. Nice to pootle home listening to TMS.
Evans sells what you need
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[url= http://www.evanscycles.com/products/biologic/cycletunes-speakers-ec038338 ]Device for making yourself look masiv awzums, or a total knob, depending on your point of view[/url]
Can be a bit quiet at 5 am in the morning so I would like to listen to the radio or some music [i]and share it with everybody 'cos I won't use headphones[/i]
do you see the irony of this?
anyone with bluetooth speaker on handle bars?
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the only possible problem I can see with this is that it doesn't tick the bluetooth box, but I'm sure you could see past this because it is so street.
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I thought that Raleigh Vektar was the coolest thing in the world EVER when it came out. It was pretty much KITT in bike form.
What did it actually have? It was just a radio and very little else, wasn't it?
Just pop one headphone into your left ear. You get to hear radio etc, but can still listen out for road noise with the right.
What did it actually have?
It had the ability to make you feel like this
thought that Raleigh Vektar was the coolest thing in the world EVER when it came out. It was pretty much KITT in bike form.
and that is enough.
Perhaps that is what Jacob is really looking for?
OP,
Maybe you could go to Operah classes. Learn a few songs - I believe Nessun Dorma is quite good. You could possibly learn a few Dick Van Dyke Mary Poppins numbers too.
You can then greet the morning chorus with your dulcid tones singing merrily as you go.
This will save you a fortune in speaker costs.
No need to thank me.
Edit: maybe you'll get other commuters joining in in a Flashmob style. By the time you reach work you might have a couple of hundred riders singing Chim Chimeney.
Skullfist are my new favourite band
Skullfist are my new favourite band
Do you think they will bring the trails alive if you blast them out via speakers?
'The trails are alive with the sound of music'? I think for that you would need an alternating quantity of Dio and Twisted Sister
Here's a video of the Vektar in action:
Edit: maybe you'll get other commuters joining in in a Flashmob style.
That made me chuckle.
Take no notice of the usual guff; think Jamie nails solution though. Not sure that a speaker/radio mounted on your bars would actually sound terribly good anyhow?
Once did a cx race where a guy had music playing out of his phone, he was one of the front runners so no one said anything.
To the OP, there may be a reason you haven't seen this despite the abundant availability of Bluetooth speakers... think about. And perhaps get a sense of humour, the sun is shining at last! There are very few pricks on here but plenty of pisstakers.
There's some pricks on here.
Some of them start threads about putting speakers on their bikes and get huffy about it when people point out how daft it is.
If you are 5 or 65, you might get away with it. In between those numbers? Go and have a strong word with yourself.
I had a strong word with myself and won:
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Can you tell avdave2 what it's like to commute!
Funny enough I do it every day.
Can be a bit quiet at 5 am in the morning
I didn't think you were allowed to do a paper round that early.
You know those really annoying kids who have to have some crap music playing on their mobile phone speaker just to walk around with?
That's you. On a bike.
I was thinking as a vocal sat nav, or msgs received maybe? like cyclemeter talks to you through your headphones maybe a serious application for the Bluetooth speaker, as for music well each to there own.
There was a bloke doing this a few months ago at Cannock, only his speakers were in his camelback. he was playing the shitiest (and trust me I've heard some shit) house IN THE WORLD...
OP get some headphones, please.
Is it worse to have a post totally ignored than a post with 50 mocking but hilarious responses?
Quiet at 5am? Are you scared/bored of your own company?
One of the things I love about a tranquil bike ride is the ability to get lost in my own thoughts.
I dont want to hear James Blunt telling me Cos Im beautiful in his posh-yodelling singing voice.
As for pricks? Classy. You'll fit right in with the sub-forum dweller section OP.
Quiet at 5am? Are you scared/bored of your own company?
One of the things I love about a tranquil bike ride is the ability to get lost in my own thoughts.
I dont want to hear James Blunt telling me Cos Im beautiful in his posh-yodelling singing voice.
As for pricks? Classy. You'll fit right in with the sub-forum dweller section OP.
Anyone done this before?
Plenty of people, but nobody ever found the bodies. 😉
Rob Jackson enjoy life instead of telling people how not too.
There I was, enjoying my life,by taking a [url= http://www.strava.com/activities/131235149 ]commute at 5AM (ish)[/url] when things were suddenly ruined by some eejit playing music through speakers attached to his bike.
There was a bloke doing this a few months ago at Cannock, only his speakers were in his camelback. he was playing the shitiest (and trust me I've heard some shit) house IN THE WORLD...
I rode with a group of guys I didn't know & one was doing this....until it rained 🙂
In-ear sports headphone thing, chop off one of the headphones, listen to music in left ear and listen to outside world in right ear, without being a pain in the arse.
When I marshall stuff I usually take a little speaker, I've had people in the midst of downhill race runs sing along or shout reviews as they pass.
One of the joys of my 5am 17 mile commute was the eery starlit tranquility, the silence slowly broken by the sounds of the rest of the world waking up as I passed stealthily by. On the rural stretches I'd kill my lights too. Each to their own.
Rob Jackson enjoy life instead of telling people how not too.
Too what?
Just re-reading this and sorry I was wrong earlier, you weren't being harsh when you said you were a prick 🙂
as for enjoying life, today is day 6 of holidays, spent watching a band with my missus, kid, and friends, followed by the pub for lunch, camping show this arvo, wood collecting early eve, then beer and tv. Yup shit unenjoyable life #guttedtonothavebarspeakers
Using only one stereo earphone is rubbish !! I'm deaf in one ear so use these.
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Much better than hearing half of the music. Still no use to me for riding, but just the job if you've got two working ears.
I can't understand this. I commute, I've never felt the need to listen to anything. I can listen at work and listen at home, I can handle a 45 minute gap.
Only time I have ever listened to music on a bike (as an adult) was during a 24 hour solo. Actually that wasn't even music, it was Radio 4 🙂
Molgrips get a life and take the missus out clubbing. They cope for all ages now! Music makes you happy and some of us don't have the privilege of listening to anything at work apart from ****ing machines. And as for radio 4 well, can I just say that in the next election you won't win this time.
There was a bloke doing this a few months ago at Cannock, only his speakers were in his camelback. he was playing the shitiest (and trust me I've heard some shit) house IN THE WORLD...
I rode with a group of guys I didn't know & one was doing this....until it rained
Ben was on about putting a speaker on his bike at one point!
Molgrips get a life
You haven't got much of a clue have you?
Surely the thing here, is that everyone likes different things.
However, when enjoying our differences we should also be considerate to others. So if you like listening to tunes while riding, then maybe consider using headphones. In respect for those out at 5am who might like the peace and quite first thing.
5am commute, all on your own?
Yeah keep it to yourself petal
taxi25 - MemberUsing only one stereo earphone is rubbish
Obviously you don't run it in stereo! Any decent device'll have the option to switch to mono these days.
Can u mono an iPod? That would be useful..
as for enjoying life, today is day 6 of holidays, spent watching a band with my missus, kid, and friends, followed by the pub for lunch, camping show this arvo, wood collecting early eve, then beer and tv. Yup shit unenjoyable life #guttedtonothavebarspeakers
#deeplyinsecure
It's a strange and changing world where people can't manage some silence. Out on the bike is one of the few places now where I don't have to listen or interact with anything other than nature. It's great.
Give your brain some time off and enjoy it, most people rolling along early in the morning would probably get annoyed having to listen to whatever you wanted to.
Nothing wrong with listening to music on the bike, it's about the only time I get to listen to music. Using earphones obviously as I'm a grown up.
Like Skullfist??????
Check out WHITE WIZZARD!!!!!
GNARMUZAK
Bigger wheels are more likely to cause front wheel lift on climbs,
Not that it really matters but that's nonsense.
Genius. That's a proper STW comment, now you're getting the hang of it.
However, I listen to Radio 4 and I'm not a Tory. I'm just posh.
I got a one good bud earphone, stereo to mono and not too loud. I find it ideal for transport cycling.
Hey OP, don't listen to all the grumpy grandads in this thread.
TO really look the part duct tape a boombox to a chopper and crank up the tunes, preferably the soundtrack to an 80s movie with a good montage.
This thread delivers, thanks OP!
Do it Op. top gun
Yesterday I saw an old guy blaring out Metallica on a cycle path. He had a huge grin on his face and that made me smile too.
OP just get some speakers and don't let the pricks get you down!
TO really look the part duct tape a boombox to a chopper and crank up the tunes, preferably the soundtrack to an 80s movie with a good montage.
Let's go!