Listen to music ??

[homersimpson]

Curious who listens to music etc when on the sv or who thinks you must be mad as you can hear little enough as it is.

[Anonymous]

Ive never thought about doing this really as Im new so dont need any boredom diversions....''oohhh big bend, help!!!!!'' thats enough diversion for me!

[Tony_BLY]

Erm ... forgive my naivety (if that's how you spell it) but like where do the speakers go? :?

[rukus]

If you have the faired version, you can remove the covers where you access the main bulbs from and install speakers in the there. Bracket kits are available from www.yourehavinalaugh.com. the stereo then can be installed under the rear seat and conectors run through the bike and under the tank to the front of the bike. If you then wire the stereo into the main light circuit your stereo will have power when your lights are on, which on the K3's is all the time. THe subwoofer (optional) can be installed under the rear seat too and you can run cable disco lights round the frame.. lovely!

Hope this helps

Ruk

[Muttley]

Erm ... forgive my naivety (if that's how you spell it) but like where do the speakers go? :?

Headphones dude, well those ickle in the ear jobs.

Personally I haven't tried it, but if I was to be doing long motorway stints then I would consider it.

[Muttley]

THe subwoofer (optional) can be installed under the rear seat too and you can run cable disco lights round the frame.. lovely!

Hope this helps

Ruk

Surely mounting a bass tube to the opposite side to the exhaust would look better. :)

Would need to add counter wieghts to aide stability.

[rukus]

good idea, then my 650 would look like a thou too!!!

[Warren Isaacs]

Nope. No way. Never.

Given that most lids expose your ears to over 110dB at moderate speeds, however loud would you need earphones in order to hear musicover the deafening wind roar? Loud enough to do serious damage, I reckon.


Cheers
Warren

[silverstormer]

I thought the main reason most people buy SV650's is because they come with their own soundtrack?

Is music really necessary? :?

[chazzyb]

Nope. No way. Never.

Given that most lids expose your ears to over 110dB at moderate speeds, however loud would you need earphones in order to hear musicover the deafening wind roar? Loud enough to do serious damage, I reckon.


Cheers
Warren

I've got music playing in my head all the time. Trouble is, it's the same high-pitched note all day, all night; never stops. I reckon that's a result of motorcycling when I was younger, before earplugs were invented, when my CB750 had a Yoshimura 4-1 with the insides taken out.... Boy, did that make some noise. It didn't howl, it BELLOWED, very loudly indeed.

[Anonymous]

Yes it very well could damage your hearing, permanently if exposed over long periods. If you want to know all about hearing take a look at www.defeatingdeafness.org and real afficionados might like
http://www.iurc.montp.inserm.fr/cric/audition/english/start.htm

Wear ear plugs (just like I dont......)

[Scoobs]

www.yourehavinalaugh.com

Rukus,

Must be a dead link :!:

It didn't work :shock: :wink:

[firestarter]

Curious who listens to music etc when on the sv or who thinks you must be mad as you can hear little enough as it is

I'm already distracted enough on the bike with my satellite TV, gamecube, popcorn machine and foot massager. Adding music would just be dangerous.

[SteveNZ]

Nope. No way. Never.

Given that most lids expose your ears to over 110dB at moderate speeds, however loud would you need earphones in order to hear musicover the deafening wind roar? Loud enough to do serious damage, I reckon.

I would've thought with a quietish pipe and a decent helmet it shouldn't be a problem. I rode occassionally on my ER5 (which was much quieter than my SV, but sounded wussy, stock pipes'll do that...) with an MP3 player and earbuds. It was perfectly listenable despite my noisy Nolan N100 helmet. I've got a BMW System 3 helmet now which is _much_ quieter (and comfier, and warmer...).

That said, I don't recommend it. It does help to be able to hear what's going on around you, plus I find that it interferes with my balance-concentration a bit making it require too much effort to flick the bike through twisties. (Just me?) Although, I find wearing sunglasses buggers up my concentration as well.

[peteee]

Oddly enough, when I used to cycle to work, I wouldn't dream of a journey without the walkman.

Doing a similar journey on the SV, tried the same thing once, will never try it again. It interfered so much with my concentration.

I think it's because the headphones have to be so much louder that you end up cutting yourself off totally from the outside world - definitely a bad thing when commuting in london, whereas on the pushbike, you could still maintain a link with what was going on around you, plus everything else was louder than you, so you could hear what was happening around you.

[amarko5]

I remeber in my youthful days (god can i still remember)

I once fitted a CB radio to a honda cb650 it was a really neat one cyber.. Summat anyway i digress.

I did use a vox system built into my helmet but the amount of near misses i had finally told my young and inexperienced brain that this is down right dangerous.

so no i do not fancy listening to music i really want to hear when my tyres squeel going round corners :lol:

[Anonymous]

i like to listen to 80's hard rock music when i ride it makes me want to go really fast all the time and it makes you feel agressive and invincable.

You shud try it, but u do need some powerful earphones to hear it properly and it is deafening wen u stop at lights junctions etc.

[didge]

i like to listen to 80's hard rock music when i ride it makes me want to go really fast all the time and it makes you feel agressive and invincable.

You shud try it, but u do need some powerful earphones to hear it properly and it is deafening wen u stop at lights junctions etc.

im the same i like to listen to music when im out on a ride and i dont have a realy loud can so i can hear it realy well mind you im half deff any way due t oto many gigs :S

[lynw]

Nope. No way. Never.

Given that most lids expose your ears to over 110dB at moderate speeds, however loud would you need earphones in order to hear musicover the deafening wind roar? Loud enough to do serious damage, I reckon.


Cheers
Warren

never been to a motorhead concert then if you think 110dB is a deafening wind roar.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

try a manowar one - recorded at 129dB IIRC... :D

kind of screwed my hearing from years of heavy metal at full volume so no real point in wearing ear plugs. I prefer to hear whats going on with the bike and around me... find earplugs cut me off a little from that.

but why would you want to listen to music? that v twin sound from a loud can is music to my ears as is. :D

[NitroNorry]

I haven't tried music yet - but I don't really get on with earplugs either ... I like to hear the engine. I felt quite disorientated when I tried riding with plugs in.

Martin

[Carsick]

I listen to music when I'm on longer journies. If I don't have music on, then I almost always have earplugs in. I like my hearing.
The earphones I got have earplugs on them, so the volume isn't that high and I can still hear what's going on around me. I still hear sirens when they're far away, in fact, I still react to the sirens long before any of the car drivers around me do.

I find music actually calms me down when I'm riding. I get into a decent rhythm and my riding becomes smoother and less aggressive, even though I'm often listening to quite aggressive music.
When I'm just wearing plugs it becomes jerky and aggressive.

I don't like to wear earphones when I'm riding in cities, though, and I often don't wear plugs. It just doesn't seem as comfortable in city centres as it does outside.

[Cronos]

I never listen to music when riding the bike, it really is a distraction I can live without.

In fact I listen to my MP3 player on planes, trains and buses, but I'd never dream of listening to it even walking down the street.

[daddy_sperm]

Curious who listens to music etc when on the sv or who thinks you must be mad as you can hear little enough as it is

I'm already distracted enough on the bike with my satellite TV, gamecube, popcorn machine and foot massager. Adding music would just be dangerous.



brilliant !! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[MitchC]

I listen to music when I'm on longer journies. If I don't have music on, then I almost always have earplugs in. I like my hearing.
The earphones I got have earplugs on them, so the volume isn't that high and I can still hear what's going on around me. I still hear sirens when they're far away, in fact, I still react to the sirens long before any of the car drivers around me do.

I find music actually calms me down when I'm riding. I get into a decent rhythm and my riding becomes smoother and less aggressive, even though I'm often listening to quite aggressive music.
When I'm just wearing plugs it becomes jerky and aggressive.

I don't like to wear earphones when I'm riding in cities, though, and I often don't wear plugs. It just doesn't seem as comfortable in city centres as it does outside.

I can agree completely. I listen to music on my rides and no, you don't have to blast the music. I have earbuds that are noise cancelling and they work just fine. I have the volume set the same as if I was walking to class. Sure, on the bike you get the wind in there abit, but nothing to severe. Rather have some earbuds blocking the wind and adding abit of music in there too. I try to listen to more melow music... the up-beat stuff I find myself riding to the tempo. Also, I don't wear them around town, etc. I don't see the issue. :)

Mitch