[heloego]

Point taken.
As for me, after dealing with incessant phone activity for 7 days straight, it's really a blessing for me to have the peace of an hour or more of silence when I ride. No wrong numbers, no vendors, no survey takers, no boss, no fiance, no pilots. 

[High On Octane]

Every now and then I'll bust out the MP3 player loaded with Death Metal and rip up the highway.  But for the most part, I want to be able to hear the cars around me and not be distracted.  Most states it is actually illegal to operate a vehicle on public roads with head phones in your ears.  FYI

Scottie

[D the D]

What Scottie said.  Me, my thoughts, and paying attention.  Almost locked up Sunday when an Escalade did a hard left in front of me, but not being distracted I was prepared and had a workable out.  Music or chit chat? I might've been scraped off the side of a Cadillac.

[benknrobbers]

Point taken.
As for me, after dealing with incessant phone activity for 7 days straight, it's really a blessing for me to have the peace of an hour or more of silence when I ride. No wrong numbers, no vendors, no survey takers, no boss, no fiance, no pilots. 

I can see where you come from on that point. I don't get much in the way of calls nowadays. so it's no skin off my back. Oh and I can take calls too, although the wind noise makes it pointless past 40 mph. Also the speakers are built into the helmet. They aren't the same as headphones and i typically don't turn it up loud enough to make it so I can't hear what's going on around me as well.

[mattsz]

Ease up, guys!  benknrobbers didn't say anything about taking phone calls or listening to music - he mentioned GPS and his wife!    Audible directions, and the ability to communicate with a passenger could arguably remove distraction...

[High On Octane]

Ease up, guys!  benknrobbers didn't say anything about taking phone calls or listening to music - he mentioned GPS and his wife!    Audible directions, and the ability to communicate with a passenger could arguably remove distraction...

I don't think anyone was was trying to offend anyone else.  I think Bluetooth helmets are cool.  I'd just rather hear my bike and traffic, that's all.  I mean it would be nice to have turn by turn directions right in my ear.  Personally I'd rather have a map in a tank bag than wait for my GPS to tell me "signal lost" 50 miles from no where.  I'll be honest, I've become TOO dependent on technology.

Scottie

[mattsz]

I know, Scottie - I did say it with a wink!  He doesn't need me sticking up for him anyway.  I was just elbowing some ribs...

[High On Octane]

Ahh Haa!  Got it.   

Scottie

[benknrobbers]

No worries guys. it's all good fun around here. If I took offense to any of this I'd be a lot less polite.

[Arizoni]

When I hear about a GPS giving directions I'm reminded of Noisymilk's tale of him and a buddy riding scooters from Mesa, Arizona into Canada.  (Noisymilk is one of our brother members here on the RE forum.)

After showing several non-existent roads they renamed it "Bob".
Comments like, "Shell we see what Bob says?" became common.

Not to hijack this topic but Noisymilks description and photos of that adventure are great.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=690259

[benknrobbers]

lol, This reminds me of our gps in my truck. It's a magellan, we call her mag. Mag gets confused and tells us there are roads that aren't really there.

[Royalista]

I use the Foretrex 401 from Garmin. Gives me direction and distance. Roadfinding is my lust and joy.