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Gone are the days when motorcyclists were alone with him in the helmet, stretches of motorway to meditative exercises mutant, accompanied only by the engine onomatopoeic mantra. Nowadays it has become traffic, MP3 songs and the chatter of the passengers in the ear. Via Bluetooth.


The Porsche driver wants to know. Bold sunglasses on her nose, much gel in their hair and the turn signal in the left lane on the left set. Lohse colleague makes him pass, a short “Oh, so so”, he gives the 200-horsepower BMW spores.

The right BMW, Porsche left, both vanish at the horizon of the A 81″Stay tuned …’m still going … still see you in the rearview mirror … no more … now hah, Porsche is weakening … where are you?” The announcements are clearly over, does not sound like a radio message, but as a telephonic conversation in the living room .

Madness. Lohse skipped out because the second test driver, the car-motorcycle duel could follow acoustically live for more than a kilometer.

Please remember: Only a few years Bluetooth came into the helmet.

The new technology could sit up at that time should eventually be possible from now on, talking, phone calls and listening to music while riding a motorcycle. That was (and is) even with special radio systems, but Bluetooth should make way for digital communication more comfortable and appeal to a broader mass of motorcyclists.

But in the early days were Bluetooth-acoustic systems with moderate and very low ranges hardly convincing. Dialogues between the driver and socialization did not present a problem, but the voice communication between two motorcycle riders usually began after more than a bowling alley length to pop and crackle and roar.

Additional equipment such as phone, MP3 player or GPS units had been better on cable instead of wireless connection, because certainly the only way the information came to their destination. Looks (and sounds), however you look at the latest top products, so the digital communication has made huge progress.

The biggest plug-and-play experience to offer complete systems, helmet, helmets so completely equipped, where you can lossabbeln (theoretically) immediately. The Probiker-bid offers, but the fun stops on the highway already (see test results).

And the disadvantage of complete systems is that one is bound to certain helmet models. At BMW, an advantage, because the System 6 helmet is compatible test insulation class and, together with good communication system (supplier of Cardo) for superior sound quality.

Very interesting are also the retrofit systems. Midland Cardo and offer some great systems at reasonable prices. Everyone can make a mandatory headgear fit for chat in the city, on the road or highway.

Foot rot drivers enjoy the other hand, clean navigation prompts, full music enjoyment while driving or may be via radio about lying ahead congestion. Practically. But just when retrofitting to hide many of the problems so that the microphone and headphones, mostly thin pads for bonding and hook and harmony, not always good with the helmet interior. And they are not optimally positioned to threaten severe loss of sound.

Or it pushes and tweaks to the ears. Herumzufeilen haphazardly instead of his helmet, you’d better seek help from the dealer and the Professional Board, before the system is installed. For the city traffic and passenger communications are good all the way here presented Bluetooth products. How quickly some systems, however, even at moderate highway driving blinked first, the motorcycle test but then surprised (Caberg, Probiker, HJC).

When the transfer a broken down during an air attack People receiver or a similar radio message in distress, this is actually a modern form of digital transmission makes little sense. General need for improvement in the reach. The best sets to create about one kilometer: enough early to tell about a fuel stop or the next departure.

Traffic, MP3 songs and interviews with the riders (part 2)