CY-FI Bluetooth sports speaker, tiny Sigourney Weaver co-star
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Sep 10th 2008 7:02AM
posted Sep 10th 2008 7:02AM
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It also appears to double as a golf driver head.
Aside from the price, that's actually a pretty cool idea. I've tried wearing headphones while riding my bike before, and it doesn't really work. The headphones are too big to wear them and the helmet at the same time.
in montreal the cops will pull you over if they see you on a bike or skateboard wearing headphones. its kind of a piss off that I can't listen to "downtown" when Im looking at the pretty lights in the city night. but at the same time I hear about someone getting hit by cars while on bikes every week.
I'm going to stock up on soda cans to hit idiots that use this in the head with, a bike is not an enclosed area and perhaps I don't want to hear your crappy music from crappy speakers.
The Sigourney Weaver reference went way over my head.
Think Alien
Think Alien...
Same here...
It probably grows legs and crawls up your bike....
Yeah, I'm lost on this one too and I know a lot about the "Alien" films. So... unless this is some strange reference to "Ghostbusters" or "Working Girl" or "Copy Cat"... the title just makes no sense to me at all. :P
You don't see that those black striped parts and the design look a bit alien? Strange.
Um... no. My black leather underwear looks more 'alien' than that. Oops, did I say that out loud?
I'm sure that's plenty loud over traffic and wind noise.
And the sound quality easily blows away my headphones, right?
All that and you can annoy everyone around with "Eye of the Tiger" blasting you through your workout.
Sign me up!
If you've got carbon bars and WCS stuff you're a serious rider who doesn't want extra faff like this.
But if you're not a serious rider you could try hacking a dynamo onto the wheel that'll power it, if the consumption is low enough.
Battery life? What battery life?
Seems like they want to sell this to some serious riders. I consider myself a serious rider and I couldn't imagine putting this shit on my bike. The novelty would fade quickly if I ever managed to get past the price tag. That and the space it wants to take up is occupied by most people's cyclocomputer.
I thought that was a bike seat when i first saw the picture.
The most uncomfortable seat? Or the most comfortable? Hmmm....
Great, just what we need, more people on their phones in traffic... lol
love that u can have a speaker on the bike but $180 is way too much - maybe $79
So, the $180 for this thing, you can now pay extra to annoy everyone else on a group ride with your music.
And how is this better than a boom box bungee-corded to my rear rack?
Very stupid idea.
When I'm on the W&OD in the DC area I use my Shure earbuds attached to my ipod shuffle..right ear only and at low volume. That way I can hear passing riders on the left and traffic at crossings. I've considered an external speaker, but I think my current set up is perfect...I'll take my $180 and get some gear or use it to put towards a GPS cyclometer.
So now while I am driving and talking on my cell phone at the same time, I can run over a bicyclist who is also talking on the cell phone? Did someone say "Bluetooth hood ornament?"
You think cyclist don't use a cellphone now? They just steer with one hand.
I'm not sure if you live in an area with ANY cyclist if you make a statement like that.
My nominee for "Absolutely the Worst Idea of the Year".
No serious cyclist would use this, and less experienced riders need to be able to hear what's going on around them even more.
This would only serve as an alarm, announcing "Get out of the way! I have no idea what I'm doing!!"
Let's see,
If I go from Dura Ace to SRAM Red, Time carbon pedals, an SMP full carbon saddle and some old Helium wheels for tubulars, I might save enough weight to replace my (bike) computer with this POS.
I'll stick with the Plantronics 855 in one ear playing through Core Player on my Tilt (which is more than heavy enough to ride with).
or you could lose your own weight dick. my bike weighs 30 pounds and i give a shit less, plus could easily beat you in a race
nice
Do you expect to be highly ranked or do you feel some sort of pleasure with lowest rankings?