Bike 2 Bike Communications

photomike666 · Post by **photomike666** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:44 pm

I’ve been looking into Bike2Bike communication for a while, and found most options are expensive, have features I don’t want and are fairly limited.

Reached a great solution today, quite by accident. We’re going on a road trip in September, and want 2-way radio between cars. Repco have a deal on such a set-up, so I went to get a pair. The cheap pair $49 had sold out, so I opted for the more expensive rechargeable pair. $120 got me two 40 channel radios with 4Km range. And to my surprise, they come with voice-activated headsets. I’ve not tested them yet, but don’t see why you couldn’t use them bike-to-bike. The radios are small enough to fit into a jacket and the headset goes into a crash hat ok. That beats the hell outta many specific $300 per bike kits.

As it’s a sale item, thought I’d post my findings post haste.

EDIT* for those who like fine details, Uniden uh043sx-2, comes with 2 radios, 2 voice activeted headsets, I twin desktop charger, 2 rechargeable battery packs, 2 belt clips and 1 AC adaptor.

And as an aside, I also got 2 bike covers for $35 each.

Kishy · Post by **Kishy** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:57 pm

Let us know how U go wif em..

BladeBoy · Post by **BladeBoy** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:06 pm

Mike, can you post a photo?

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:30 pm

how cool would that be!!.... on the next ksrc ride i could be singing in all ur helmets!!

mfzx6r · Post by **mfzx6r** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:16 am

Neka79 wrote:how cool would that be!!.... on the next ksrc ride i could be singing in all ur helmets!!

From the BITCH seat

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 am

Dude! you could have borrowed mine! I bought a set a while ago...

Unfortunately they were a complete waste of money....

We had massive trouble with the voice activated mics.... These were voice activated throat mics.... They were really unclear when used on a bike (fine without the bikes)....

Oh, and the supposed 4km range.... PFFFFFFF... more like 500m IF THAT.... (once again, without the bikes and the helmets they worked much better).

Hopefully yours will work better..

Nanna10r · Post by **Nanna10r** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:59 pm

Let us know how the go Mike, we group purchased the uniden 2watters that are recommended by Autocom when we got our setups last year, Cost us about $500 a bike but has all the whistles & bells.

Also could you take a photo of the fitting on the CB radio that the mic etc plugs into. thanks.

photomike666 · Post by **photomike666** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:20 pm

Pics...

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:09 pm

i bought one of these rider to pillion ones years ago and it wasnt worth the $$ i paid for the POS.... but that was a cheaper version...

how goes it mike?? tried it yet??

do ya sit in different rooms using it just for the hell of it?? (i kno i would)

photomike666 · Post by **photomike666** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:47 pm

Neka79 wrote:i bought one of these rider to pillion ones years ago and it wasnt worth the $$ i paid for the POS.... but that was a cheaper version...

how goes it mike?? tried it yet??

do ya sit in different rooms using it just for the hell of it?? (i kno i would)

Sort of - hid one in the fruit bowl, went into the shed and used the other to ask if dinner was cooked. It didn't go down too well

We're going on the bikes together Thursday so will test them bike to bike then

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:12 pm

hahaha thats golden..... when i was 13 my mum had a baby and i use to get stuck baby sitting all the time...neway she had this 2 way baby monitor in the babies room...it was the room next to mine..so rather than walk out to ask if dinner was ready, id walk into the baby's room.... mum thought i was a slack ass and lazy..i knew better..i was just getting use outta the bloody thing...