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  • anyone with bluetooth speaker on handle bars?
  • jacob46
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    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?

    rob-jackson
    Free Member

    Very chavvy

    gwaelod
    Free Member

    Put a sub on the rear rack too.

    Bregante
    Full Member

    This bloke

    wordnumb
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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.

    hora
    Free Member

    OP I could make up a frame sticker for you too:

    Name Team racing. Ok?

    Btw what tunes are you bangin?

    Enya
    Starsailor

    shermer75
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    All About Eve
    ‘Steel Magnolias’ soundtrack

    avdave2
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    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? 🙂

    yourguitarhero
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    My brother in law just sent us one of these:

    Next time I do Spooky Woods I’m gonna stick that in my back pocket and bust out some SKULLFIST!!!!!!

    **** all y’all

    matt_outandabout
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    Jacob, nobody else wants to hear your music. Unplug for the commute. It is just noise pollution and nuisance.

    gwaelod
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    thered
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    Bar mounted speakers!!! Want want want

    djglover
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    Just get one of these bad boys

    drlex
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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’…

    jacob46
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    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.

    dvatcmark
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    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.

    Gary_M
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    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 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.

    matt_bl
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    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

    rob-jackson
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    Jacob – the pricks comment – don’t put yourself down so much, misguided and chavvy yes, prick, no.

    richmars
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    Can be a bit quiet at 5 am in the morning

    Maybe some people like that.

    jacob46
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    Can you tell avdave2 what it’s like to commute!

    jacob46
    Free Member

    Rob Jackson enjoy life instead of telling people how not too.

    jacob46
    Free Member

    Cheers Matt_bl

    drlex
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    Couldn’t get on with headphones, so prefer a speaker. Nice to pootle home listening to TMS.

    franksinatra
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    Can be a bit quiet at 5 am in the morning so I would like to listen to the radio or some music and share it with everybody ‘cos I won’t use headphones

    do you see the irony of this?

    Rorschach
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    anyone with bluetooth speaker on handle bars?

    franksinatra
    Full Member

    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.

    honourablegeorge
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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?

    Jamie
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    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.

    franksinatra
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    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?

    iolo
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    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.

    shermer75
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    Skullfist are my new favourite band

    franksinatra
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    Skullfist are my new favourite band

    Do you think they will bring the trails alive if you blast them out via speakers?

    shermer75
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    ‘The trails are alive with the sound of music’? I think for that you would need an alternating quantity of Dio and Twisted Sister

    shermer75
    Free Member

    Here’s a video of the Vektar in action:

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    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?

    surroundedbyhills
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    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.

    TooTall
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    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.

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